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Notes on the Senate NOTES ON THE SENATE CHANCELLERY OF THE SENATE 6, WiejsKA STR. | 00-902 WArsaw Essential statistics about tel. 48 22 694 90 34 | fax 48 22 694 93 06 [email protected] www.senat.gov.pl the Senate of the Tenth Term www.facebook.com/SenatRP The Tenth Term Senate elected on 13th October 2019 has 100 members: 48 were candidates of the Law and Justice Election Committee, 43 of the Civic Coalition Election Committee – Civic Platform, Modern Party .Nowoczesna, Polish Initiative, Greens Party; 3 of the Polish People’s Party Election Commit- tee, 2 of the Democratic Left Alliance Election Committee and 4 of their own election committee. The current Senate counts 76 men and 24 women. In the past, the number of women senators ranged from 6 in the First Term to 23 in the Fifth. The average age of senators is 58 (in the past, it ranged from 49 in the Second Term to 56 in the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth). 4 senators are younger than 40 and 6 are older than 70, 2 are older than 80. 97 senators are university graduates (in the past, the education level ranged from 85 university graduates in the Third Term to 96 in the Ninth). 3 senators have secondary education. 21 senators hold scientific degrees and titles. There are 5 university professors and 16 doctors or doctors habilitated (in the past, the number of professors ranged from 8 in the Ninth Term to 26 in the First). 77 senators have experience in territorial self-governmental work (in the past, it ranged from 13 in the Second Term to 75 in the Ninth). 80 senators are seasoned parliamentarians: 61 served as previous terms senators, 38 were deputies to the Sejm, 10 – to the European Parliament. 2 longest-serving senators worked in the Parliament through 7 terms. In the past, the number of senators with parliamentary experience ranged from 4 in the First Term to 72 in the Eight. 82 senators declare affiliation with a political party: 38 of them are members of the Law and Justice, 35 – of the Civic Platform, 2 – of the Polish People’s Par- ty, 2 – of the United Poland (Solidarna Polska) and 2 – of the Jarosław Gowin’s Agreement (Porozumienie Jarosława Gowina). 1 senator belongs to the Polish Socialist Party, 1 – to the European Democrats’ Union and 1 – to the Robert Biedroń’s Spring (Wiosna Roberta Biedronia). 18 senators have no party af- filiation. Senate Information Centre November 2019 Essential statistics about the Senate of the Tenth Term The list of senators of the tenth term and registered offices of the constituency electoral commission* Rafał Ambrozik Piotrków Trybunalski Wojciech Konieczny Częstochowa Paweł Arndt Konin Tadeusz Kopeć Bielsko-Biała Włodzimierz Bernacki Tarnów Małgorzata Kopiczko Olsztyn Halina Bieda Katowice Waldemar Kraska Siedlce Grzegorz Bierecki Chełm Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Łódź Przemysław Błaszczyk Sieradz Stanisław Lamczyk Słupsk Ryszard Bober Toruń Jan Filip Libicki Piła Jacek Bogucki Białystok Maciej Łuczak Sieradz Marek Borowski Warszawa Józef Łyczak Toruń Bogdan Borusewicz Gdańsk Ryszard Majer Częstochowa Barbara Borys-Damięcka Warszawa Beata Małecka-Libera Katowice Marcin Bosacki Poznań Robert Mamątow Siedlce Krzysztof Brejza Bydgoszcz Marek Martynowski Płock Margareta Budner Konin Ewa Matecka Kalisz Jacek Bury Lublin Antoni Mężydło Toruń Jerzy Chróścikowski Chełm Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka Katowice Alicja Chybicka Wrocław Krzysztof Mróz Legnica Leszek Czarnobaj Gdańsk Bogusława Orzechowska Elbląg Grzegorz Czelej Lublin Stanisław Ożóg Rzeszów Jerzy Czerwiński Opole Andrzej Pająk Kraków Dorota Czudowska Legnica Janusz Pęcherz Kalisz Wiesław Dobkowski Piotrków Trybunalski Marek Pęk Kraków Robert Dowhan Zielona Góra Wojciech Piecha Bielsko-Biała Artur Dunin Łódź Marek Plura Katowice Wiktor Durlak Nowy Sącz Aleksander Pociej Warszawa Jerzy Fedorowicz Kraków Zdzisław Pupa Rzeszów Zygmunt Frankiewicz Katowice Jadwiga Rotnicka Poznań Ewa Gawęda Bielsko-Biała Jarosław Rusiecki Kielce Stanisław Gawłowski Koszalin Sławomir Rybicki Słupsk Beniamin Godyla Opole Janina Sagatowska Rzeszów Stanisław Gogacz Lublin Joanna Sekuła Katowice Mieczysław Golba Krosno Michał Seweryński Sieradz Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor Bielsko-Biała Wojciech Skurkiewicz Radom Tomasz Grodzki Szczecin Krzysztof Słoń Kielce Janusz Gromek Koszalin Lidia Staroń Olsztyn Mariusz Gromko Białystok Adam Szejnfeld Piła Jan Hamerski Nowy Sącz Aleksander Szwed Wałbrzych Jolanta Hibner Warszawa Rafał Ślusarz Legnica Jan Maria Jackowski Płock Ryszard Świlski Gdańsk Danuta Jazłowiecka Opole Dorota Tobiszowska Katowice Michał Kamiński Warszawa Wadim Tyszkiewicz Zielona Góra Stanisław Karczewski Radom Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Warszawa Kazimierz Kleina Słupsk Jerzy Wcisła Elbląg Bogdan Klich Kraków Kazimierz Wiatr Tarnów Andrzej Kobiak Bydgoszcz Jacek Włosowicz Kielce Maria Koc Siedlce Alicja Zając Krosno Magdalena Kochan Szczecin Józef Zając Chełm Agnieszka Kołacz-Leszczyńska Wałbrzych Barbara Zdrojewska Wrocław Władysław Komarnicki Zielona Góra Bogdan Zdrojewski Wrocław Marek Komorowski Białystok Wojciech Ziemniak Kalisz * The name of the city does not refer to the constituency from which the senator was elected, but to the registered office of the constituency electoral commission which has authority over the senator’s constituency..
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