Maria Janyska | |
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Member of the Polish Parliament | |
Assumed office 2011 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Wyrzysk | January 16, 1962
Political party | Civic Platform |
Alma mater | University of Economics in Poznań |
Occupation | Economist, Politician |
Maria Małgorzata Janyska ( née Chojcan; born January 16, 1962, in Wyrzysk) is a Polish local government official, economist, and member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for the VII, VIII, IX, and X terms.
From 1998 to 2002, Janyska was a member of the Czarnków-Trzcianka County Council during its first term. She returned to local government in 2010, when she was elected to the voivodeship sejmik of Greater Poland Voivodeship as a member of the Civic Platform in the local elections. [1]
In February 2011, she ran for a senate seat in the by-elections held after Piotr Głowski was elected mayor of Pila. She finished second in the vote, losing to Henryk Stokłosa. [2] In the 2011 parliamentary elections, she received 12,132 votes, winning a parliamentary seat for Civic Platform in the Pila district. [3]
In 2015, she successfully ran for reelection to the Sejm (receiving 21,700 votes). [4] In the VIII Sejm, she became the deputy chair of the Extraordinary Committee for Deregulation and a member of the Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs and the Committee on Economy and Development. [5] In the 2019 and 2023 elections, she again won parliamentary seats, running as part of the Civic Coalition and receiving 30,783 and 23,592 votes, respectively. [6] [7] In the IX term, she was the deputy chair of the Committee on Economy and Development, [5] and in the X term, she became the deputy chair of the Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs. [8]