Grzegorz Dolniak | |
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Acting Parliamentary Leader of the Civic Platform Acting Leader of the Civic Platform in the Sejm |
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In office 2 October 2009 – 9 October 2010 |
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Leader | Donald Tusk |
Preceded by | Zbigniew Chlebowski |
Succeeded by | Grzegorz Schetyna |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 February 1960 |
Died | 10 April 2010 | (aged 50)
Nationality | Polish |
Political party | Platforma Obywatelska |
Grzegorz Maciej Dolniak (Gizh-eh-gozh Dawl-nee-ak; 17 February 1960 in Będzin – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 12,151 votes in the 32nd Sosnowiec district as a candidate from the Platforma Obywatelska list.
He was listed on the flight manifest[1] of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
On April 16, 2010 Dolniak was decorated posthumously with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. On April 22 he was buried in the cemetery at Holy Trinity Parish in Bedzin.
He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005.