2011 in Poland

Incumbents

Position	Person	Party	Notes
President	Bronisław Komorowski	Independent (Supported by the Civic Platform)
Prime Minister	Donald Tusk	Civic Platform
Marshal of the Sejm	Grzegorz Schetyna	Civic Platform	Until 8 November 2011
	Ewa Kopacz	Civic Platform	From 8 November 2011
Marshal of the Senate	Bogdan Borusewicz	Independent (Supported by the Civic Platform)

Bold indicates government parties.

2011 Polish parliamentary election

Party	Leader	Sejm			Senate
		Seats	Popular vote	Percentage	Seats
Civic Platform	Donald Tusk	207 / 460	5,629,773	39.18%	63 / 100
Law and Justice	Jarosław Kaczyński	157 / 460	4,295,016	29.89%	31 / 100
Palikot's Movement	Janusz Palikot	40 / 460	1,439,490	10.02%	0 / 100
Polish People's Party	Waldemar Pawlak	28 / 460	1,201,628	8.36%	2 / 100
Democratic Left Alliance	Grzegorz Napieralski	27 / 460	1,184,303	8.24%	0 / 100
German Minority		1 / 460	28,014	0.2%	0 / 100
Independents		N/A			4 / 100
Other	PJN, KNP, PPP, Prawica, NDP	0 / 460	591,279 (Total)	4.09% (Total)	0 / 100
Total and turnout		460	14,369,503	48.92%	100

Summarize Timeline Fact Check

• 1 January – Five localities received town rights: Czyżew, Gościno, Nowe Brzesko, Pruchnik, and Wolbórz.^[1] For four it was a restoration of a previously lost town status.
• 9 January – The nineteenth finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.^[2]
• 10 January – A test HD version of TVP1 is launched, named TVP1 HD.
• 31 January – President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski signed a law introducing a 35 percent quota for electoral lists.

• 7 February – Warsaw summit of the Weimar Triangle.^[3]
• 19 February – Performance by the famous DJ Armin van Buuren in Poznań.
• 25 February – Abolition of the Property Commission of the Catholic Church.^[4]

• 1 March – The first time Poland celebrated a new national holiday: National Day of Remembrance "Soldiers accursed".
• 25 March – The Polish Sejm adopted a government proposal declining pension contributions transferred to open pension funds.^[5]

• 1 April – Start of the Polish Census 2011.^[6]
• 21 April – Skra Bełchatów won their seventh Polish Volleyball Championship defeating ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle in the finals (see 2010–11 PlusLiga).
• 29 April – The court annulled the Wałbrzych presidential election.^[7]

• 17 May – Sejm investigative committee for Christopher Olewnik adopted a report on its work.
• 23 May – Asseco Prokom Gdynia won their eighth Polish Basketball Championship defeating Turów Zgorzelec in the finals (see 2010–11 PLK season).

• 5 June – Rebranding of phone company Era to T-Mobile Poland.^[8]

• 18 June–3 July – Poland hosts the EuroBasket Women 2011.
• 28 June – Łukasz Kamiński sworn in as president of the Institute of National Remembrance.

• 1 July – Poland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Hungary for a six-month term.^[9]
• 29 July – Committee for Investigation of National Aviation Accidents of the Polish Civil Aviation Authority announced a report on the causes of the Smolensk catastrophe on 10 April 2010.

• 1 August – "The Law of 5 January 2011 - Election Code" comes into force.
• 4 August – The Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski, officially announces the Parliamentary election date, set for 5 October 2011.
• 12 August – Four people have been killed and 30 people injured after a train derailed between Warsaw and Katowice in Poland.^[10]
• 18 August – The Gdynia District Court acquitted Adam Darski, the leader of death metal band Behemoth, accused of insulting religious feelings.

• 3 September – Opening of the Polish National Stadium (Earlier called: Stadium of the Decade)
• 8–9 September – Tenth Jubilee International Ignatius Reimann Festival in Krosnowice.

• 2 October – Falubaz Zielona Góra won their sixth Team Speedway Polish Championship defeating Unia Leszno in the finals (see 2011 Polish speedway season).
• 9 October – Polish Parliamentary Elections, 2011.^[11]

A Liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant was set up in Swinoujscie.