2020 in Poland

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Events during the year 2020 in Poland.

Incumbents

• President: Andrzej Duda
• Prime Minister: Mateusz Morawiecki
• Marshal of the Sejm: Elżbieta Witek
• Marshal of the Senate: Tomasz Grodzki

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Poland

• 6 July – President Duda signed a document with a presidential draft of the amendment to the Polish Constitution to ban gay adoption.^[1]
• 12 July – Andrzej Duda is re-elected as the President of Poland.^[2]
• 25 July – Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro declared he would begin preparing the formal process for Poland to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention.^[3][4][5][6] He claimed the treaty is harmful because it "requires that schools teach children about gender in an ideological way" and that it "de-emphasizes biological sex".^[7]
• 6 October – Jarosław Kaczyński become deputy prime minister in the Mateusz Morawiecki government.^[8]
• 22 October – Poland's constitutional court rules abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional.^{[9][10][11][12]}
• 7 December – stated-owned petroleum refinery and distributor PKN Orlen acquired media and press company "Polska Press" controlling large number of regional media portals and several regional newspapers.^[13][14][15]

Deaths

January

• 2 January – Bogusław Polch, comic book artist (b. 1941).^[16]
• 17 January
  • Lech Raczak, theatre director (b. 1946).^[17]
  • Stanislaw Stefanek, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Łomża (b. 1936).^[18]

July

• 6 July
  • Zdzisław Myrda, Olympic basketball player (b. 1951).^[19]
  • Marta Stebnicka, actress (b. 1925).^{[citation needed]}
• 10 July – Anna Stroka, literary historian, author and translator (b. 1923).^[20]

August

• 4 August – Jan Strelau, psychologist (b. 1931).^[21]
• 5 August – Stefan Majer, basketball player and coach (b. 1929).^[22]
• 10 August – Dariusz Baliszewski, historian, journalist and writer (b. 1946).^[23]
• 14 August – Ewa Demarczyk, singer and poet (b. 1941).^[24]
• 18 August – Wojciech Karpiński, writer and historian of ideas (b. 1943).^[25]
• 22 August – Józefa Hennelowa, journalist and politician (b. 1925).^[26]

September

• 1 September – Jerzy Szczakiel, speedway rider (b. 1949).^[27]
• 5 September – Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins (b. 1926).^[28]

October

• 17 October – Ryszard Ronczewski, actor (b. 1930).^[29]
• 18 October – Stanisław Kogut, politician and trade union activist (b. 1953).^[30]
• 19 October – Wojciech Pszoniak, actor (b. 1942).^[31]
• 20 October – Bogdan Józef Wojtuś, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1937).^[32]

December

• 1 December – Hanna Stadnik, Polish resistance veteran and activist (b. 1929).^[33]

References

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