Teresa Piotrowska

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Teresa Piotrowska
Minister of the Interior
In office
22 September 2014 – 16 November 2015
Prime MinisterEwa Kopacz
Preceded byBartłomiej Sienkiewicz
Succeeded byMariusz Błaszczak (as Minister of Interior and Administration)
Member of the Sejm
In office
19 October 2001 – 11 November 2019
Constituency4 Bydgoszcz
Personal details
Born (1955-02-05) 5 February 1955 (age 70)
Tczew, Polish People's Republic
Political partyCivic Platform
Alma materCardinal Stefan Wyszyński University

Teresa Piotrowska (born 5 February 1955) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 16,716 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district, as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.

Early life

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Piotrowska was born in Tczew on 5 February 1955. During her youth she attended the Maria Skłodowska-Curie High School in Tczew and later in 1980 attended the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw graduating with a master's degree in history.[1]

She was then later a member of the PAX Association which was a Catholic pro-communist group in Poland and became an instructor in this group, later in the 1990s she worked as a primary school teacher.[2]

Political career

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She became a member of the city council of Bydgoszcz in 1994 and later from 1995 to 1998 as a member of the city board where she was tasked with overseeing social welfare and education.[2]

She then served as the last Voiovode of Bydgoszcz from March 1998 to December 1998 after which the voivodeship was integrated into the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Piotrowska was also a Member of the Sejm being first elected in the 2001 election. She was elected in Sejm Constituency no. 4 with 12,196 votes totalling 3.54% of the total votes in the constituency.[3]

Piotrowska became the Minister of the Interior of Poland on 22 September 2014[4] in the Ewa Kopacz Cabinet. She held on to this position of Minister of the Interior for 1 year and 1 month until she lost her position as minister due to the government losing the 2015 Polish parliamentary election, she was succeeded by Mariusz Błaszczak.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Teresa Piotrowska". Sejm (in Polish).
  2. ^ a b The Sejm of the Republic of Poland. VII term. Guide, Sejm Publishing House, Warsaw 2012, p. 334
  3. ^ "Wybory do Sejmu: wyniki głosowania: Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców Platforma Obywatelska: Okręg wyborczy nr 4 Bydgoszcz". pkw.gov.pl (in Polish).
  4. ^ Sobczak, Pawel; Lowe, Christian (19 September 2014). "New Polish PM brings her rival into government". Reuters. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Poland elections: Conservatives secure decisive win". BBC. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
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