Zyta Gilowska
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Zyta Gilowska AUD is a Polish
economist and politician. From 7 January until 23 June 2006 she was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister in the Law and Justice
government under Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
and then Jaroslaw Kaczynski
.
Gilowska is a former vice-chairman of the Citizens Platform party; however, she left the party on 21 May 2005 in protest over accusations by party colleagues of wrongdoing. A former deputy to Sejm
(the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) from 2001 to 2005, she was previously in the liberal party Freedom Union
(Unia Wolności).
Gilowska graduated with a degree in economics from Warsaw University and was later an economics professor at the Catholic University of Lublin.
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...
economist and politician. From 7 January until 23 June 2006 she was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister in the Law and Justice
Law and Justice
Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....
government under Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from October 31, 2005 to July 14, 2006...
and then Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a conservative Polish politician who served as Prime Minister from July 2006 to November 2007. He is presently the chairman of the Law and Justice party, which he cofounded in 2002. He has been the leader of the opposition since the 2007 elections.He has a Doctor...
.
Gilowska is a former vice-chairman of the Citizens Platform party; however, she left the party on 21 May 2005 in protest over accusations by party colleagues of wrongdoing. A former deputy to 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 ....
(the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) from 2001 to 2005, she was previously in the liberal party Freedom Union
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).
Gilowska graduated with a degree in economics from Warsaw University and was later an economics professor at the Catholic University of Lublin.
External links
- Zyta Gilowska web page (limited access)
- The Chancellery of the Prime Minister