Anna Fotyga
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Anna Elżbieta Fotyga (born 12 January 1957) is a Polish economist, politician, former Member of the European Parliament and since 9 May 2006 foreign minister of Poland in the succesive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński. She is Poland's first woman Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Fotyga is a graduate of international trade in Gdańsk University and the Danish School of Public Administration.
- In 1981 and after 1989 she was the manager of the Foreign Office of the Solidarity headquarters in Gdańsk and close collaborator of Lech Kaczyński.
- From 1997-2001, she was an adviser for foreign affairs under the Polish prime minister Jerzy Buzek.
- Later she was deputy chairman of the Supervisory Board of Social Security Office (Zakład Ubezpieczen Spolecznych, ZUS) and an expert of International Labour Organization (Międzynarodowa Organizacja Pracy), and the World Bank.
- From 2002 to 2004, she was deputy mayor of Gdańsk.
In the European elections of 13 June 2004 she was a candidate of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość in constituency #1 Pomeranian Voivodship and received 25,994 votes (second best result in the region).
On May 9, 2006 Anna Fotyga was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland by President Lech Kaczyński, replacing Stefan Meller.
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European Parliament Election, 2004 (Poland)
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| Republic of Poland | Leon Wasilewski · Ignacy Jan Paderewski · Władysław Wróblewski · Stanisław Patek · Eustachy Sapieha · Jan Dąbski · Konstanty Skirmunt · Gabriel Narutowicz · Aleksander Skrzyński · Marian Seyda · Roman Dmowski · Karol Bertoni · Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski · Aleksander Skrzyński · Kajetan Dzierżykraj-Morawski · August Zaleski · Józef Beck |
| Polish government in Exile | August Zaleski · Edward Raczyński · Tadeusz Romer · Adam Tarnowski |
| People's Republic of Poland | Edward Osóbka-Morawski · Wincenty Rzymowski · Zygmunt Modzelewski · Stanisław Skrzeszewski · Adam Rapacki · Stefan Jędrychowski · Stefan Olszowski · Emil Wojtaszek · Józef Czyrek · Stefan Olszowski · Marian Orzechowski · Tadeusz Olechowski |
| Republic of Poland | Krzysztof Skubiszewski · Andrzej Olechowski · Władysław Bartoszewski · Dariusz Rosati · Bronisław Geremek · Władysław Bartoszewski · Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz · Adam Daniel Rotfeld · Stefan Meller · Anna Fotyga |
Original members
Ludwik Dorn • Anna Fotyga • Grażyna Gęsicka • Roman Giertych • Przemysław Gosiewski • Wojciech Jasiński • Antoni Jaszczak • Jarosław Kaczyński • Anna Kalata • Stanisław Kluza • Andrzej Lepper • Tomasz Lipiec • Jerzy Polaczek • Zbigniew Religa • Michał Seweryński • Radosław Sikorski • Jan Szyszko • Kazimierz Ujazdowski • Zbigniew Wassermann • Rafał Wiechecki • Piotr Woźniak • Zbigniew Ziobro
Joined later
Zyta Gilowska • Andrzej Aumiller • Aleksander Szczygło • Janusz Kaczmarek
