Władysław Frasyniuk is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 politician, former activist of Solidarity trade union, and former chairman of the Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl

Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl

The Democratic Party , abbreviated to PD, is a centrist, liberal political party in Poland. It has no members of the Sejm, Senate, or European Parliament....

 political party. He served as a member of the Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 (Polish parliament) from 1991 to 2001.

A member of Solidarity in Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia ; is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast.Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of the medieval Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1526...

 from its inception, he was one of the founders of the Temporary Coordinating Committee (Tymczasowa Komisja Koordynacyjna), which served as an underground leadership of Solidarity after governmental crackdown on Solidarity after the martial law in Poland

Martial law in Poland

Martial law in Poland refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983, when the authoritarian government of the People's Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition to it. Thousands of opposition...

. For his activity he was arrested, spent time in jail and was released under a general amnesty

Amnesty

Amnesty is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent people, without changing the laws defining the offense. It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the...

 in 1986. In 1987 he was a member of the Temporary Council of NSZZ Solidarność (Tymczasowa Rada NSZZ Solidarność), and later of the Country Executive Committee of NSZZ Solidarność (Krajowa Komisja Wykonawcza NSZZ Solidarność). In 1989 he was one of the opposition delegates to the Polish Round Table Negotiations. In 1990 he was a member of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee

Solidarity Citizens' Committee

The Solidarity Citizens' Committee , also known as "Citizens' Electoral Committee" , previously named "Citizens' Committee with Lech Wałęsa" was an legal political organisation of the democratic opposition in communist Poland...

 (Komitet Obywatelski "Solidarność").

In the new Poland, he was a member of liberal centrist parties. In 1990 he was a cofunder of Citizens Movement Democratic Action (Ruch Obywatelski Akcja Demokratyczna, ROAD) (1990–1991). He was a member of Democratic Union (Poland)

Democratic Union (Poland)

The Democratic Union was a Liberal Christian-democratic party in Poland. The party was founded in 1990 by Prime Minister, Christian democrat Tadeusz Mazowiecki as a merger of the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action and the Forum of Right Democrats .The party had a market-socialist...

 (Unia Demokratyczna) (1991–1994) and it's vice-chairman (1991–1993), and after this party merged with Freedom Union (Poland)

Freedom Union (Poland)

The Freedom Union was a liberal democratic party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress . Both of these parties had roots in the Solidarity trade union movement. It represented European democratic and liberal...

 (Unia Wolności) he was its member (1994–2001) and chairman (1999–2005). He became one of the founders and the first chairman of the newest incarnation of that party, Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl

Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl

The Democratic Party , abbreviated to PD, is a centrist, liberal political party in Poland. It has no members of the Sejm, Senate, or European Parliament....

(2005–present). He resigned from the position in March 2006.