Grzegorz Juliusz Schetyna (ˈɡʐɛɡɔʂ sxɛˈtɨna, born February 18, 1963 in Opole

Opole

Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

) is a Polish

Poland

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 politician. He was elected to 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 ....

 as a candidate of the Civic Platform on September 25, 2005 after receiving 14,978 votes in 1 Legnica

Legnica

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 district. Following the 2007 parliamentary election

Polish parliamentary election, 2007

Early parliamentary elections for both houses of parliament were held in Poland on 21 October 2007 after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution on 7 September 2007. The election took place two years before the maximum tenure of four years, with the previous elections having been in September 2005...

, he served as Deputy Prime Minister

Deputy Prime Minister

A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some counties, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, but is significantly different, though both...

 and Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration under Prime Minister Donald Tusk

Donald Tusk

Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician who has been Prime Minister of Poland since 2007. He was a co-founder and is chairman of the Civic Platform party....

.

He was also a member of Sejm 1997–2001, Sejm 2001–2005, Sejm 2005–2007, Sejm 2007–2011.

After his dimission, he moved to the post of head of the Civic Platform Sejm caucus. Following Bronisław Komorowski's

Bronislaw Komorowski

Bronisław Maria Komorowski is the President of Poland. As Marshal of the Sejm , Komorowski exercised powers and duties of head of state following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010...

 victory in the 2010 presidential election, he was recommended as the Civic Platform's candidate to succeed the President-elect as the Marshal of the Sejmhttp://wybory.gazeta.pl/wybory/1,106728,8104609,Schetyna_zarekomendowany_na_marszalka_Sejmu.html

On July 8 he was formally elected Marshal of the Sejm and thus assumed the post of the Acting President of Poland. Schetyna served as the interim head of state until Komorowski's formal inauguration on August 6, 2010.

He ceased being Sejm Marshal on November 8, 2011.

See also

• Members of Polish Sejm 2005–2007
• Members of Polish Sejm 2007–2011

External links

• Grzegorz Schetyna – parliamentary page – includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.