Biography Kornel Morawiecki

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Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki (ur. 3 maja 1941 w Warszawie) – polski polityk, dziaÅ‚acz opozycji antykomunistycznej w PRL, zaÅ‚ożyciel i przewodniczÄ…cy SolidarnoÅ›ci WalczÄ…cej, doktor fizyki, nauczyciel akademicki. Kandydat w wyborach prezydenckich w 2010. Ojciec Mateusza Morawieckiego, prezesa zarzÄ…du Banku Zachodniego WBK SA.

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ZgÅ‚osiÅ‚ swÄ… kandydaturÄ™ w wyborach prezydenckich w 1990, nie udaÅ‚o mu siÄ™ jednak zebrać wymaganych 100 tys. podpisów. 7 lipca 1990 zaÅ‚ożyÅ‚ PartiÄ™ WolnoÅ›ci, z której ramienia bez powodzenia kandydowaÅ‚ w wyborach parlamentarnych w 1991. Have you voted for or against Kornel Morawiecki ? W czasie telewizyjnej kampanii wyborczej wywróciÅ‚ przed kamerami telewizyjnymi okrÄ…gÅ‚y stóÅ‚. W 1993 jego partia weszÅ‚a w skÅ‚ad Ruchu dla Rzeczypospolitej. Później dziaÅ‚aÅ‚ w Ruchu Odbudowy Polski i zasiadaÅ‚ we wÅ‚adzach tej partii. W 1997 z ramienia ROP i w 2007 jako bezpartyjny z ramienia Prawa i SprawiedliwoÅ›ci kandydowaÅ‚ do Senatu.

Za dziaÅ‚alność na rzecz niepodlegÅ‚oÅ›ci Polski decyzjÄ… rzÄ…du RP na uchodźstwie odznaczony przez prezydenta Kazimierza Sabbata Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski. W czerwcu 2007 odmówiÅ‚ przyjÄ™cia z rÄ…k prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej proponowanego mu w 25-lecie powstania "SolidarnoÅ›ci WalczÄ…cej" Krzyża Wielkiego Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, uznajÄ…c, że reprezentowanej przez niego organizacji należy siÄ™ najwyższe polskie odznaczenie – Order OrÅ‚a BiaÅ‚ego.

Do poÅ‚owy 2009 byÅ‚ pracownikiem dydaktycznym Instytutu Matematyki Politechniki WrocÅ‚awskiej – prowadziÅ‚ zajÄ™cia ze studentami. Has changed the detail your opinion on Kornel Morawiecki ? 6 stycznia 2010 ogÅ‚osiÅ‚ start w wyborach prezydenckich w tym samym roku z ramienia SolidarnoÅ›ci WalczÄ…cej. PoinformowaÅ‚ o prowadzeniu rozmów z osobami, które miaÅ‚yby stworzyć jego honorowy komitet poparcia. Poparcia kandydatowi udzieliÅ‚a też Konfederacja Polski NiepodlegÅ‚ej - Obóz Patriotyczny, której prezes Adam SÅ‚omka zostaÅ‚ szefem sztabu wyborczego kandydata. 10 maja 2010 Kornel Morawiecki zostaÅ‚ zarejestrowany jako kandydat przez PKW. W wyborach zajÄ…Å‚ ostatnie, 10. Have you read details about Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa ? miejsce z 0,13% poparcia. Jego wynik (21 596 gÅ‚osów) to zaledwie ok. 1/5 ze 100 tys. podpisów, zebranych w celu rejestracji jego kandydatury w PKW. W drugiej turze zadeklarowaÅ‚ oddanie gÅ‚osu na JarosÅ‚awa KaczyÅ„skiego, jednak nie zaapelowaÅ‚ do swoich zwolenników o poparcie jego kandydatury.

W wyborach samorzÄ…dowych w 2010 bez powodzenia kandydowaÅ‚ z ramienia KWW Polski Kierunek do sejmiku województwa dolnoÅ›lÄ…skiego. Can Kornel Morawiecki have an influence on Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa ? W wyborach parlamentarnych w 2011 także bezskutecznie kandydowaÅ‚ do Senatu z ramienia wÅ‚asnego komitetu "Wolni i Solidarni" w okrÄ™gu nr 8 (WrocÅ‚aw PóÅ‚noc). Jego kandydatura byÅ‚a popierana przez Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, które nie wystawiÅ‚o tam swojego kandydata.

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Kornel Morawiecki (born May 3, 1941, Warsaw) - was the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność Walcząca) one of the more radical splinters of Solidarity movement in Poland, during the 1980s. His academic background is that of a theoretical physicist.

He was the son of MichaÅ‚ and Jadwiga (née SzumaÅ„ska). He graduated from the gimnazjum of Adam Mickiewicz in 1958 in Warsaw. He finished a higher degree in physics at the University of Warsaw in 1958. He finished his doctorate under Jan Rzewuski in Quantum Field Theory in 1970. Did you know that Kornel Morawiecki is popular at 48% of voters?? He worked as a researcher at the University of WrocÅ‚aw, at first in the Institute of Physics, later in Mathematics. After 1973, he worked at the WrocÅ‚aw Polytechnic. In 1968 he took part in student strikes and demonstrations. After the repression of the student protests, together with a group of close friends he edited, printed and distributed pamphlets which denounced the communists government for their repressions against the protesting students. Since 1979, together with Jan Waszkiewicz he became the editor of the Biuletyn DolnoÅ›lÄ…ski, an underground newspaper. He was a delegate to the First National Congress of NSZZ Solidarity.

At the end of May, 1982, together with Paweł Falicki he founded the "Organization of Fighting Solidarity" which was a unique political opposition organization in Poland and the countries of the Soviet Bloc. This was because it was the only group which from the beginning of its existence called for an end to communism in Poland and other Soviet satellites, establishment of sovereign governments independent from Moscow in them, break up of the Soviet Union and separation of the USSR republics into new nation states, and reunification of Germany within its Potsdam imposed borders. While eventually all these things in fact happened, at the time this program was seen as quite radical and unrealistic, even in dissident circles. However, Fighting Solidarity also rejected the use of violence to achieve its aims. After the declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981, Morawiecki became one of the most wanted people in Poland. In 1984, on the directive of General Kiszczak a special team was created in the Ministry of Internal Affairs charged with observing several dozen places in which the authorities thought he could show up.

On the 9th of November, 1987, after six years of conspiratorial activity in the underground, he was caught and arrested by the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (Secret Police) in Wrocław and was immediately transported by helicopter to Warsaw, and imprisoned in Rakowiecka Prison. Despite his capture, none of his associates or those who hid him during the past six year, nor the archives of the organization were captured. At the end of April, 1988 he was given the opportunity by the communist authorities (who at the time were trying to get rid of "difficult" people) to travel to Rome for much needed medical treatment, and his right of return to Poland was guaranteed through mediation of the Catholic Church. After three days he attempted to come back to Poland but his passport was confiscated and he was deported from the airport in Warsaw to Vienna. He managed to illegally come back to Poland in September 1988, by pretending to be a Canadian human rights delegate.

After the fall of communism in Poland, Kornel registered his candidacy for the post of President of Poland in 1990, but in the end he was unable to collect the required 100,000 signatures. During his televised election campaign he symbolically turned over a round table, a reference to the Polish Round Table Agreement which, he felt, compromised too much with the communists.

For his activism in support of an independent Poland, the Polish Government in Exile under president Kazimierz Sabbat awarded him the Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta (Order of Poland Reborn). In June 2007, on the 25th anniversary of Fighting Solidarity, he refused to accept from the President of Poland the Grand Cross of Polonia Restituta, arguing that the organization he represented deserved the highest possible state honor - the Order of the White Eagle. He was also awarded the Karel KramáÅ™ Medal by the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, for his opposition in 1968 to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

He was one of the candidates in the 2010 Polish presidential election, but got only 0.13% of votes and didn't get into the second round. He is currently working at the Math Institute of the Wrocław University of Technology.

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2013-03-07