Marek Borowski
| Marek Stefan Borowski | |
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Marshal of the Sejm 5thMarshal of the Sejm of The Third Republic of Poland |
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In office 19 October 2001 – 20 April 2004 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Jerzy Buzek, Leszek Miller |
| Preceded by | Maciej Płażyński |
| Succeeded by | Józef Oleksy |
| Finance Minister of Poland | |
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In office 26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa |
| Prime Minister | Waldemar Pawlak |
| Preceded by | Jerzy Osiatyński |
| Succeeded by | Grzegorz Kołodko |
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4 January 1946 Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland |
| Political party | Democratic Left Alliance, Social Democratic Party of Poland |
| Spouse(s) | Halina Borowska |
| Profession | Economist |
Marek Stefan Borowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk bɔˈrɔfskʲi]; born 4 January 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish left-wing politician. He led the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) for a time and was Speaker of the Sejm (the lower, more powerful, house of Poland's parliament) from 2001 to 2004.
He was born to a Polish-Jewish family, as a son of Janina and Wiktor Borowski.
From 2004 to January 2009 he was the leader and chairman, of a new Polish left-wing party called Social Democracy of Poland (SdPl), formed from a break-away group of SLD. He was a candidate in the presidential elections in 2005, but he got fourth place, with 10%.
Marek Borowski is an MP from Piła, but in the September 2005 parliamentary elections he contested a seat in Warsaw. Borowski was the Social Democratic presidential candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential elections. Just as his party received a massive defeat in the September 2005 Parliamentary elections, Borowski lost the presidential elections, receiving 10% of the vote and fourth place, despite Aleksander Kwaśniewski's support following the withdrawal of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.
He most recently ran (unsuccessfully) for the office of mayor of Warsaw in the 2010 local elections.
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