Education
University of Gdańsk.
Member of the European Parliament politician
University of Gdańsk.
In 1980 she joined Solidarność, of which she continued to be a member until 1995. In 2005, she secured herself another Sejm term in the election (getting 11925 votes in district 26 Gdynia) and became a vice-president of her party. Senyszyn"s public appearances, both in the Sejm and on other occasions, are often marked by the use of provocative language and satire.
She is credited with coining the term kaczyzm to describe her political opponents of the Law and Justice government.
She raised some controversy (and gained media attention) when she paraphrased the words of Pope John Paul II during the so-called Parada Równości, a demonstration promoting LGBT rights in Poland coupled with a gay pride parade. In return, bishop Tadeusz Pieronek said that she should be pasturing cattle instead.
Joanna Senyszyn holds the academic rank of Professor ordinarius and holds the chair in market research at the University of Gdańsk, where she also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration before being elected to the Sejm.
In the 1970s, Senyszyn was a member of the Polish United Workers" Party (PZPR), the governing party in the communist People"s Republic of Poland.
Later, she joined Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej and was a successful candidate in the 2001 parliamentary election from the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej -Uttar Pradesh) list, becoming a member of the Sejm. Since 2009 she"s a member of the European Parliament.