Jolanta Banach

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Jolanta Banach
Member of Gdańsk City Council
In office
21 November 2010 – 16 November 2014
Member of the Sejm
In office
14 October 1993 – 18 October 2005
Constituency25-Gdańsk
Personal details
Born11 November 1958
Lębork, Poland
Political partyNew Left (since 2021)
Democratic Left Alliance (1993-2021)
Other political
affiliations		The Left (since 2019)

Jolanta Maria Banach (born 11 November 1958 in Lębork) is a Polish politician, teacher, member of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sejm terms, 2001-2003 Secretary of State in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of Poland, and 2003-2004 Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economy, Labor and Social Policy of Poland.

Biography[edit]

In 1983, Banach graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Gdańsk. She worked as a librarian and teacher of Polish. Since 1992, she has been a member of the Democratic Union of Women.[1]

In October 2001, she was appointed secretary of state in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy in the government of Leszek Miller.[2] Since January 2003, she held the same position in the Ministry of Economy, Labor and Social Policy until it was canceled in February 2004.[3]

During 2004, she also served as the government plenipotentiary for the disabled.[3]

In March 2004, together with Marek Borowski, Banach was among the co-founders of the Polish Social Democracy Party (SDPL), then she took the position of the chairwoman of the SDPL parliamentary club. In the 4th term Sejm, she was a member of the Social Policy and Family Committee.[4]

She ran unsuccessfully in 2005 and 2007 for the Sejm and in 2006 for the Sejmik. In 2006, she was employed as the deputy director of Bursa Gdańska, and in 2015 she took the position of director of this institution.[5]

From June 2007 to February 2010, she chaired the SDPL in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, then remained a member of the party's provincial board. In 2010, still belonging to the SDPL, she was elected from the SLD list to the city council in Gdańsk.[6]

She later left the SDPL. In 2014, she unsuccessfully ran for the European Parliament from the SLD-UP list.[7]

In the 2019 elections, she was again the SLD candidate for the Sejm.[8]

In 2021, she joined Nowa Lewica (joining the SLD faction). In January 2022, she sat on the board of the Pomeranian Vovodeship of the party.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "BANACH JOLANTA MARIA, posłanka, wiceminister – Encyklopedia Gdańska". gdansk.gedanopedia.pl. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  2. ^ Sejm of the Republic of Poland. 4th term. Guide , Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warsaw 2002, p. 15.
  3. ^ a b S.A, Wirtualna Polska Media (2004-02-09). "Dymisja wiceminister gospodarki". wiadomosci.wp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  4. ^ "Lewica podzielona: Rozpad SLD stał się faktem. W nocy Marek Borowski powołał nowa partie polityczną. W skład nowej formacji weszli posłowie skupieni wokół marszałka Sejmu, m.in. Izabella Sierakowska, Jolanta Banach i Andrzej Celiński. Nowa partia ma się nazywać Socjaldemokracja Polska". archive.fo. 2004. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
  5. ^ Multimedialne, Gdańskie Centrum. "Oświata: poczet nowych dyrektorów". Gdańsk - oficjalny portal miasta (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  6. ^ "Wybory Samorządowe 2010 - Geografia wyborcza - Województwo pomorskie - - m. Gdańsk". wybory2010.pkw.gov.pl. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  7. ^ "Wyborcza.pl". trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  8. ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r." sejmsenat2019.pkw.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  9. ^ "Jolanta Banach: PiS zrozumiał to, co PO lekceważyła". Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-05.
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