Maciej Płażyński, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish politician
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Place of Birth: Młynary, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
About Maciej Płażyński
- Maciej Plazynski (Polish pronunciation: ['mat??j pwa'???sk?i]; 10 February 1958 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish liberal-conservative politician. Plazynski was born in Mlynary.
- He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students' Solidarity; he was governor of the Gdansk Voivodship from August 1990 to July 1996, and was elected to the Sejm (the lower house of the Polish parliament) in September 1997.
- To date he is longest serving Marshal of the Sejm of the Third Republic of Poland In January 2001, he founded the Civic Platform political party with Donald Tusk and Andrzej Olechowski.
- He left Civic Platform for personal reasons and at the time of his death was an independent MP.
- He was member of Kashubian-Pomeranian Association.
- He was later chosen as a chairman of the Association "Polish Community". Maciej Plazynski was married to Elzbieta Plazynska and together they had three children: Jakub, Katarzyna, and Kacper. He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski which crashed while landing at Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
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