Background
Witkowski was born in Poznań in 1953.
Witkowski was born in Poznań in 1953.
Witkowski is also a notable cooperation movement activist. Then he joined the Labour Union, and quickly rose to become one of the union"s leaders in Greater Poland Voivodeship. The Labour Union and Democratic Left Alliance (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej ) formed a coalition prior to the 2001 parliamentary elections.
Witkowski served as one of the coalition"s campaign leaders, although he didn"t run himself for the Sejm or the Senate.
From 2001 to 2005, he was first deputy of the Greater Poland Voivode. In the 2005 presidential election, he supported Marek Borowski.
He was elected a leader of the Labour Union on February 25, 2006. The Labour Union, the Democratic Left Alliance, the Social Democrats of Poland (SdPl) and the Polish Democratic Party (Privatdozent ) formed the LiD coalition in 2006, just prior to the impending local government elections.
Witkowski became one of the joint leaders of the new grouping alongside Wojciech Olejniczak of Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej , Janusz Onyszkiewicz of Privatdozent , Marek Borowski of SdPl and former President Kwaśniewski.
Witkowski contested the October 2007 parliamentary elections, as a LiD candidate in the district of Poznań. However, despite being Number. 2 on the party list, he did not manage to gain enough votes for election to the Sejm (lower chamber of parliament).
Labour Union, Polish United Workers" Party.
Since 2006 he is a member of the Greater Poland Regional Assembly. He was a member of the Polish United Workers" Party from 1976 until the party dissolved itself in 1990. Witkowski served as an honorary member of the executive body of the re-election campaign of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski in 2000 (when the Labour Union supported Kwaśniewski).
Since the 2006 local elections, however, Witkowski has been a member of the Greater Poland Regional Assembly.