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Encyclopedia > Donald Tusk
Donald Franciszek Tusk


Incumbent
Assumed office 
16 November 2007
President Lech Kaczyński
Vice PM(s) Waldemar Pawlak
Grzegorz Schetyna
Preceded by Jarosław Kaczyński

Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland
In office
21 October 1997 – 18 October 2001
Served alongside:
Tadeusz Rzemykowski
Marcin Tyrna
Andrzej Chronowski
Preceded by Ryszard Czarny
Stefan Jurczak
Zofia Kuratowska
Grzegorz Kurczuk
Succeeded by Jolanta Danielak
Ryszard Jarzembowski
Kazimierz Kutz

Vice-Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
In office
19 October 2001 – 18 October 2005
Served Alongside:
Andrzej Lepper
Tomasz Nałęcz
Kazimierz Ujazdowski
Janusz Wojciechowski
Józef Zych
Preceded by Marek Borowski
Jan Król
Franciszek Stefaniuk
Stanisław Zając
Succeeded by Janusz Dobrosz
Jarosław Kalinowski
Bronisław Komorowski
Wojciech Olejniczak
Andrzej Lepper
Genowefa Wiśniowska
Marek Kotlinowski

Born 22 April 1957 (1957-04-22) (age 50)
Gdańsk, Poland
Political party Civic Platform
Spouse Małgorzata Tusk
Profession Historian
Religion Roman Catholic

Donald Franciszek Tusk (IPA: ['dɔnalt fran'ʨiʃɛk 'tusk], born 22 April 1957, Gdańsk) is a liberal Polish politician, co-founder and chairman of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska), and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland represents the Council of Ministers (the Cabinet) and directs their work, supervises territorial self-government within the guidelines and in ways described in the Constitution and other legislation, and acts as the superior for all government administration workers (heading the public service... Open seat redirects here. ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...  , IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) KaczyÅ„ski served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Waldemar Pawlak (born 5 September 1959), twice served as Prime Minister of Poland (the first time in June 1992, he failed to form a cabinet). ... Grzegorz Schetyna (born February 18, 1963 in Opole) is a Polish politician. ...   IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is a polish politician and was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from July 2006 to November 2007 and is the chairman of Law and Justice (Polish: ), a party which he co-founded in 2002. ... Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (Polish: WicemarszaÅ‚ek Senatu RP) is one of the Polish Senators who serves as deputy of the Senate Marshal (speaker). ... is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Grzegorz Kurczuk (born September 20, 1949 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician. ... Kazimierz Julian Kutz (b. ... 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Janusz Wojciechowski Janusz Wojciechowski (born on 6 December 1954 in Rawa Mazowiecka) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lodz Voivodship with the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, Member of the Bureau of the European Peoples Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliaments... Józef Zych (born March 23, 1938) is a Polish politican of Polish Peasant Party. ... Marek Stefan Borowski (b. ... Jan Król (born June 24, 1950 in Mielec) is a Polish economist and politician, former member of Sejm. ... Franciszek Jerzy Stefaniuk (born June 4, 1944 in Derlów) is Polish politician from Agrarian Polish Peoples Party (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe), who serve as a Sejm Member from since Contract Sejm (1989). ... StanisÅ‚aw ZajÄ…c (born May 01, 1949 in ÅšwiÄ™cany) is a Polish politician. ... Janusz Dobrosz (born March 07, 1954 in Wieruszów) is a Polish politician. ... JarosÅ‚aw Kalinowski (born April 12, 1962 in Wyszków) is a Polish politician. ... BronisÅ‚aw Komorowski (born April 4, 1952 in Oborniki ÅšlÄ…skie) is a Polish politician, chairman of Platforma Obywatelska. ... Wojciech Olejniczak (born April 10, 1974 in Łowicz, Poland) is a Polish leftist politician. ... Andrzej Lepper Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper (IPA: [], born June 13, 1954 in StowiÄ™cino, Poland) is a Polish politician, the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland) political party. ... Genowefa WiÅ›niowska (born March 04, 1949 in Ożary) is a Polish politician. ... Marek Kotlinowski (born May 13, 1956 in Gorlice) is a Polish politician, Vice-Marshal of the Sejm. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... 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Tusk was officially designated the Prime Minister on November 9 and took office on November 16. His cabinet won the vote of confidence in the Sejm on November 24, 2007. is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament or other assembly of elected representatives to give members of parliament (or other such assembly) a chance to register their confidence in a government. ... The Sejm building in Warsaw. ... is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

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Politics

Donald Tusk (right) being appointed for the PM by the President Lech Kaczyński on November 9th, 2007
Donald Tusk (right) being appointed for the PM by the President Lech Kaczyński on November 9th, 2007

Tusk was one of several vice-speakers of the Sejm (2001-2005), the lower house of the Polish parliament. Prior to co-founding Civic Platform in 2001, he was a prominent member of the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny) and the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności). He quit the Freedom Union after he failed to win the party's chairmanship in a race against Bronisław Geremek. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...  , IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) KaczyÅ„ski served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ... The Sejm building in Warsaw. ... The Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny) was a a liberal party in Poland. ... The Freedom Union (Unia WolnoÅ›ci, UW) was a liberal party in Poland. ... Professor BronisÅ‚aw Geremek (IPA: [], born on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw) is a Polish social historian and politician of Jewish origin. ...


Tusk's political position combines strong support of a free market economy with little government interference, with social conservatism. Tusk has been a member of the Sejm since 2004. A market economy (also called a free market economy or a free enterprise economy) is an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods and services take place through the mechanism of free markets (though completley useless to some dumbasses) guided by a free price system. ... Social conservatism generally refers to a political ideology or personal belief system that advocates the conservation or resurrection of what one, or ones community, considers to be traditional morality and social structure. ...


Tusk represented the constituencies of Gdynia-Słupsk (2001-2005) and Gdańsk (2005-2007). As of 2007 he is MP for Warsaw. In 2005, the Civic Platform nominated him as their candidate for 2005 presidential election. He was defeated in the second round by a margin of 46:54 by Lech Kaczyński. Gdynia (IPA: , German: (until 1939 and after 1945) / Gotenhafen (1939-1945); Kashubian: ) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport at GdaÅ„sk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. ... SÅ‚upsk ( ; former German: , occasionally Stolpe; Kashubian and Pomeranian: Stolpsk; Latin: Stolpe) is a city with approximately 100,000 inhabitants in northwestern Poland. ... For alternative meanings of GdaÅ„sk and Danzig, see GdaÅ„sk (disambiguation) and Danzig (disambiguation) Motto: Nec temere, nec timide (No rashness, no timidness) Coordinates: , Country Voivodeship Powiat city county Gmina GdaÅ„sk Established 10th century City Rights 1263 Government  - Mayor PaweÅ‚ Adamowicz Area  - City 262 km²  (101. ... For other uses, see Warsaw (disambiguation) and Warszawa (disambiguation). ... Presidential elections were held in Poland on October 9 and October 23, 2005. ...  , IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) KaczyÅ„ski served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ...


Attacks on his family

During the Polish presidential election of 2005, it was claimed by Jacek Kurski, Lech Kaczyński's assistant, that Tusk's grandfather served as a volunteer in the German Army during World War II. Jacek Kurski (born February 22, 1966 in GdaÅ„sk) is a Polish politician. ...  , IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) KaczyÅ„ski served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...


Both of Donald Tusk's parents were citizens of the Free City of Danzig, and were of Kashubian descent. Tusk's grandfather was conscripted to the German Army during World War II. As a German citizen, he was subject to conscription. Józef Tusk deserted about 10 days later, and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. Flag of Danzig The Free City of Danzig refers to either of two short-lived city-states which were centered on the present-day Baltic port known as GdaÅ„sk (German: Danzig). ... Kashubians, Kassubians, or Cassubians (Kashubian: Kaszëbi) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland. ... The straight-armed Balkenkreuz, a stylized version of the Iron Cross, the emblem of the Wehrmacht. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Main engagements of Polish forces Westerplatte – Mokra – Bzura – Enigma – Narvik – Battle of Britain – Tobruk – Gazala – Dieppe – Lenino – Monte Cassino – Ostra Brama – V2 Capture – Warsaw Uprising - Falaise – Studzianki - Market Garden – Scheldt – Seelow Heights – Bautzen – Berlin // 1939 poster. ...


It has been alleged that Kurski's comments contributed to Lech Kaczyński's election as Polish President.[citation needed]  , IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) KaczyÅ„ski served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ...


Biography

Education

Tusk graduated from the Mikołaj Kopernik High School in Gdansk in 1976. He then enrolled as a student of history at the University of Gdansk, from which he graduated in 1980 with an MA thesis on Jozef Pilsudski. History The university was established in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Higher School of Economics in Sopot (existing since 1945) and Gdańsk College of Education (formed in 1946). ... Term of Office from November 14, 1918 until December 9, 1922 Profession Statesman and military commander Political Party none, see Sanacja for details First Lady Maria Piłsudska Date of Birth December 5, 1867 Place of Birth Zułów, in todays Lithuania Date of Death May 12...


Oppositional activity in Polish People's Republic (PRL)

Early on he engaged in oppositional activity against the communist regime. As a student of history at the University of Gdansk he participated in creating the Student Committee of Solidarity, which was founded in reaction to the murder of Stanislaw Pyjas by the Safety Service in Krakow. He also cooperated with Bogdan Borusewicz, one of the leaders of Polish Solidarity. He was the originator and one of the first leaders of the Independent Polish Students' Association (laster NZS). Several months later he became the head of "Solidarity" at Sea Publishing House. He was thrown out of the state firm due to his oppositional activity. Tusk engaged in collaborative efforts for seven years with Maciej Plazynski. This article needs cleanup. ... Office Marshal of the Senate of Poland Term of office from October 20, 2005 until present Profession Historian Political party independent Spouse widowed Date of birth January 11, 1949 Place of birth Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland Date of death Place of death Bogdan Michał Borusewicz, (born January 11, 1949 in...


Political activity in III Polish Republic

Donald Tusk was one of the founders of Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny). In 1991 he became the chairman of the KLD, which in the autumn elections won 37 mandates in the Lower house. Tusk became one of the members of the Polish Parliament. The Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny) was a a liberal party in Poland. ...


During a government crisis in 1992, he disclosed that the Minister of Internal Matters Antoni Macierewicz had collaborated with the UB and SB. Tusk supported a vote of no-confidence against the Olszewski government. His seven other parties appointed Hanna Suchocka as prime minister of Poland. Antoni Macierewicz (born 3 August 1948 in Warsaw) is a Polish right wing politician, vice-minister of national defence in Jarosław Kaczyński government. ...


After the fall of Hanna Suchocka's government in 1993, his party did not cross the 5 percent threshold necessary to enter parliament. In April 1994 Tusk became one of the vice-chairmans of the Union of Freedom (Unia Wolnosci), formed by a merger of the KLD with the Democratic Union. He became a senator in 1997 and supported Jerzy Buzek's coalition. In 2000, aftering losing the chairmanship of the Union of Freedom to Bronislaw Gemerek, he resigned from the party.


On January 24, 2001, together with Andrzej Olechowski and Maciej Plazynski, he founded the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). Plazynski became the party chairman. In 2001 PO received 65 mandates in the lower house, becoming the largest oppositional party. On June 1, 2003 Tusk assumed the position of party chairman, which he holds presently. Andrzej Olechowski (b. ... Maciej Płażyński (born February 10, 1958 in Mlynary) is a Polish conservative-liberal politician. ... Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO), is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative Polish political party. ...


Donald Tusk lost the presidential elections in 2005 to Lech Kaczynski. After the elections he remained chairman of his party. Lech Kaczynski, President of Warsaw; leader of Law and Justice Party Lech Kaczyński (born: 18th June 1949, Warsaw) is a Polish politician, and together with his twin brother Jarosław Kaczyński a leader of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) party. ...


In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he got more than 534,000 votes, which is the best individual result in the electoral history of the Third Polish Republic. His Civic Platform won the elections with nearly 40% of the votes. Tusk was officially designated Prime Minister on November 9 and took office on November 16. His cabinet won the vote of confidence in the Sejm on November 24, 2007.


Family

Donald Tusk with his family

Donald Tusk is married to Małgorzata born 1959 and has two children, a son Michał born in 1982 and a daughter Katarzyna born in 1987. Katarzyna took part in TVN tv show Taniec z Gwiazdami. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... TVN may be: TVN (Chile) (Televisión Nacional de Chile); public broadcaster TVNORGE; a Norwegian commercial television channel TVN (Poland); commercial broadcaster TVN (Panama) (Televisora Nacional, S.A.); commercial broadcaster TVN Entertainment Corporation; a US cable television company TVN (Australia); the only thorougbred horse racing channel in Australia: [1] Category...


Tusk lives in Sopot. Football is one of his biggest hobbies. He is the son of Donald Tusk (1930-1972) who was a carpenter. Tusk's uncle was the famous Gdańsk sculptor Bronisław Tusk (1935-2000). His grandfather Józef Tusk (1907-1987) was a Polish railway official who during World War II was a prisoner of the Nazi camp Stutthof. Józef served as a soldier in the Polish Army in the West, though he was compulsorily drafted into the Wehrmacht. For alternative meanings of GdaÅ„sk and Danzig, see GdaÅ„sk (disambiguation) and Danzig (disambiguation) Motto: Nec temere, nec timide (No rashness, no timidness) Coordinates: , Country Voivodeship Powiat city county Gmina GdaÅ„sk Established 10th century City Rights 1263 Government  - Mayor PaweÅ‚ Adamowicz Area  - City 262 km²  (101. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Stutthof, commonly refers to the Stutthof concentration camp complex built near the town of Sztutowo, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Sztutowo (called by the Germans Stutthof) itself. ... The straight-armed Balkenkreuz, a stylized version of the Iron Cross, the emblem of the Wehrmacht. ...


Donald Tusk belongs to the Kashubian minority. Kashubians, Kassubians, or Cassubians (Kashubian: Kaszëbi) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland. ...


Electoral history

Polish presidential election, 2005 Presidential elections were held in Poland on October 9 and October 23, 2005. ...

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Summary of 9 October 2005 Polish Presidential election results
Candidates and nominating parties Votes 1st round % Votes 2nd round %
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński - Law and Justice 4,947,927 33.1 8,257,468 54.04
Donald Franciszek Tusk - Civic Platform 5,429,666 36.3 7,022,319 45.96
Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper - Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland 2,259,094 15.1 - -
Marek Stefan Borowski - Social Democracy of Poland 1,544,642 10.3 - -
Jarosław Kalinowski - Polish Peasant Party 269,316 1.8 - -
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke - Real Politics Union 214,116 1.4 - -
Henryka Bochniarz - Democratic Party 188,598 1.3 - -
Liwiusz Marian Ilasz 31,691 0.2 - -
Stanisław Tymiński - All-Polish Citizens Coalition 23,545 0.2 - -
Leszek Henryk Bubel - Polish National Party 18,828 0.1 - -
Jan Pyszko - Organization of the Polish Nation - Polish League 10,371 0.1 - -
Adam Andrzej Słomka - The Polish Confederation-Freedom and the Work 8,895 0.1 - -
Total (turnout 49.7 %) 15,046,350 100    

Prime Minister of Poland (vote of confidence)  , IPA: [] (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) KaczyÅ„ski served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. ... Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) is a Polish political party. ... Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO), is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative Polish political party. ... Andrzej Lepper Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper (IPA: [], born June 13, 1954 in StowiÄ™cino, Poland) is a Polish politician, the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland) political party. ... Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SRP)[1] is an agrarian political party and trade union in Poland. ... Marek Stefan Borowski (b. ... Social Democracy of Poland (Socjaldemokracja Polska, SDPL) is a new leftist political party in Poland founded in April 2004 as a splinter group from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (it should not be confused with a former party Socialdemocracy of the Republic of Poland - SdRP). ... JarosÅ‚aw Kalinowski (born April 12, 1962 in Wyszków) is a Polish politician. ... The Polish Peoples Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, also known in English as Polish Peasant Party) is a political party in Poland. ... Janusz Korwin-Mikke During presidents campaign in 2000 Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born October 27, 1942 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish liberal conservative political commentator and politician. ... The Real Politics Union (Polish: Unia Polityki Realnej) is a free market-emphasizing liberal conservative political party in Poland. ... The Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Poland, publicly announced on February 28 and formally established on May 9, 2005 as an enlargement of the Freedom Union (Unia WolnoÅ›ci), which it legally succeeds. ... StanisÅ‚aw Stan TymiÅ„ski (born January 27, 1948 in Pruszków) is a Canadian businessman of Polish origin, dealing in electronics and computers, and a sometime-politician in both Poland and Canada. ... The Polish National Party (Polska Partia Narodowa) is a marginal anti-Semitic political party in Poland. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ...

  • Yes - 238
  • No - 204
  • Abstain - 2

See also

Politics of Poland takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... Political parties in Poland lists political parties in Poland. ... This is the list of the most popular politicians in Poland ranked by the level of the trust and distrust among the voters. ... Presidential elections were held in Poland on October 9 and October 23, 2005. ... Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of Poland were held on September 25, 2005. ... Early parliamentary elections for both houses of parliament (Sejm and Senat) were held in Poland on 21 October 2007 after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution on 7 September 2007. ...

External links

  • Civic Platform
  • (Polish) Prime Minister | Council of Ministers | The Chancellery of the Prime Minister
  • Donald Tusk – the Implementation of the Polish dream.
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