Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka

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Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
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Personal details
Born23 August 1950
Gdańsk, Poland
Died10 April 2010(2010-04-10) (aged 59)
Smolensk, Russia
Political partyDemocratic Left Alliance
Children2, including Barbara
Flowers and candles before office of Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka in Gdynia
Family grave at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw

Izabela Walentyna Jaruga-Nowacka

Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Marek Belka
, serving until October 2005, while also, concurrently, filling in his cabinet, from November 2004 to October 2005, the position of Minister Polityki Społecznej [Minister for Social Policy].

A native of the

Science Policy and Higher Education (1974–76) and the Institute of Socialist Nations at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976–86). Although not politically active during the Communist period, near its end, in the mid-1980s, she joined the League of Polish Women then, in 1991, became active in Ruch Demokratyczno-Społeczny [Democratic-Popular Movement] and, in the election of 1993, was elected to the Sejm as a member of the Labor Union
party.

A dedicated feminist, she remained a member of Sejm 1993–97, Sejm 2001–05, Sejm 2005–07 and was elected for the fourth time in October 2007, running on the platform of the new Left and Democrats party.

Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka and her husband, mathematician Jerzy Nowacki, rector of the Warsaw-based Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, have two daughters, Barbara and Katarzyna.

She was listed on the flight manifest

Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia
, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.

On 16 April 2010, Jaruga-Nowacka was

Polonia Restituta
.

References

  1. ^ Prezydenckim Tu-154 leciały najważniejsze osoby w państwie (Polish) Archived 2010-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Gay rights advocating former Polish Deputy PM among dead in plane crash". PinkNews. 2010-04-10. Retrieved 2024-01-10.

External links

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