A long-time member of parliament, co-founder of Law and Justice, former speaker of the Sejm, deputy prime minister, and minister of interior, Ludwik Dorn has passed away at the age of 67.
Ludwik Dorn was a member of parliament in 1997-2015 and a co-founder of the Law and Justice party. In 2005-2007 he was deputy prime minister and minister of the interior affairs and administration in Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz's cabinet, and later in Jarosław Kaczyński's.
In 2008, Dorn was removed from Law and Justice and the party's parliamentary club. He won a seat in the Sejm again in the 2011 parliamentary election. He ran on PiS lists, but served as an unaffiliated MP, later joining the United Poland parliamentary club, only to leave it in 2012.
Polish Press Agency informed about Ludwik Dorn's passing, citing sources in the PiS party.
Opposition activist in communist Poland
Ludwik Dorn was born on June 5, 1954, in Warsaw. In communist Poland, he was an opposition activist, cooperating with the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) among others.
He graduated from the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. After June 1976 protests, in July of that year, he was involved in supporting persecuted workers and began to work as part of the Workers' Defence Committee.
In August of 1980, he was under arrest in Warsaw, from which he was later released due to the August Agreement. The following month he joined the Solidarity trade union. An arrest warrant was issued after him during the martial law period. He was in hiding for 18 months.
From 1990, Dorn began to cooperate closely with Jarosław Kaczyński, with whom he established Centre Agreement. In 1995, when Lech Kaczyński was running for president, Dorn served as his spokesman. It was with the Kaczyński brothers, as well as other members of Centre Agreement, that Dorn later co-founded Law and Justice.
He was married and had four daughters.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP