Piotr Ikonowicz
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Piotr Ikonowicz (IPA: ['pʲɔtr ikɔ'nɔvʲitʂ] (b. 1956) is a Polish leftist politician and one of the least successful candidates in the Polish presidential election, 2000.
Ikonowicz was born May 14, 1956 in Pruszków near Warsaw. A graduate of the faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw University and the Institute of Geography of Developing States, in early 1980s he engaged himself in socialist anti-government activities, for which he was arrested and imprisoned in 1981. Released soon afterwards, following the imposition of the Martial Law in Poland he was again arrested and sentenced to 1,5 years in prison for organization of May Day demonstration independently from the communist authorities.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet-dominated system of power in Poland in 1989, Ikonowicz was one of the founders of the new Polish Socialist Party. A member of the Sejm, in 2000 he unsuccessfully ran in the presidential elections. Currently he is one of the leaders of the marginal New Left party.
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