Izabela Dorota Leszczyna | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Office: | Minister of Health |
Term Start: | 13 December 2023 |
Primeminister: | Donald Tusk |
Predecessor: | Ewa Krajewska |
Office1: | Member of Sejm |
Term Start1: | 16 November 2007 |
Constituency1: | 28-Częstochowa |
Party: | Civic Platform (2006–present) |
Otherparty: | Civic Coalition (2018–present) |
Birth Date: | 1962 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Częstochowa, Poland |
Izabela Dorota Leszczyna (born 3 September 1962) is a Polish politician, teacher, local official, Member of the Polish Parliament (since 2007). She currently serves as Minister of Health.
Leszczyna graduated in Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2006, she was elected to Częstochowa City Council from the Civic Platform. Leszczyna was elected from the Civic Platform to the Sejm in: 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.[1]
In 2010, in the elections for the office of President of Częstochowa, she obtained the second result (21.99%). In the second round of elections, she obtained 29.11% of votes and was defeated by Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk.[2]
In December 2023, she was appointed as the Minister of Health in Donald Tusk's third cabinet.[3]