2023 in Poland

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Events in the year 2023 in Poland.

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Poland

• President: Andrzej Duda
• Prime Minister: Mateusz Morawiecki
• Marshal of the Sejm: Elżbieta Witek (until November 13); Szymon Hołownia onwards
• Marshal of the Senate: Tomasz Grodzki

Events

• 3 January – CVC Capital Partners signes a preliminary agreement for the sale of PKP Energetyka to state owned power company PGE.
• 9 February – Poland announces the closure of a major border crossing with Belarus "until further notice" amid heightened tensions between the two countries. There are currently only two checkpoints open between the two nations.
• 25 February – Refiner PKN Orlen announces that Russia has suspended oil exports to Poland via the northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline.
• 3 April – state owned power company PGE takes over PKP Energetyka.
• 5 April – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes an official visit to Poland. During his meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Zelenskyy receives the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest order.
• 26 May – Poland's Parliament voted for a law that will establish a commission to investigate alleged Russian influence during the period from 2007 to 2022. The law was accepted by president Andrzej Duda. The law was widely criticised for being non-democratic and an attempt to eliminate Civic Platform's politicians and followers.
• 4 June – 2023 Polish protests, former Prime Minister Donald Tusk, together with several other members of the Civic Platform party, organized a series of anti-government protests in Warsaw, Poland's capital city: The protests in Warsaw were notably attended by former President and Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa.
• 15 June – Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, says that the Polish Pis government might hold a referendum on EU migration policy. The referendum would be similar to the 2016 Hungarian migrant quota referendum.
• 10 August – Poland sends 10 thousand troops to guard its border with Belarus.
• 11 August – Nearly 14,000 residents of the city of Lublin, are ordered to evacuate, after an unexploded bomb was found yesterday at the site of a pre-World War II factory.
• 27 August – Police arrest two male Polish citizens suspected of hacking into the national railway communication system, disrupting rail traffic in Poland and issuing false signals.
• 15 September – The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs fires its legal chief and cancels all contracts to outsource visa applications after seven are charged in a visas-for-cash scandal.
• 19 September – Polish cash-for-visa scandal, Civic Platform MP Michał Szczerba reveals alleged documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating that the Polish embassy in Minsk issued 784,173 visas to individuals from 65 countries with the assistance of a Moscow-based company. It is further claimed by Szczerba that among those issued visas are people who were pushed back from the border during the Belarus–European Union border crisis.
• 20 September –
  • Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announces that Poland will stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, amid tensions between the two countries over the former's import ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.
  • Vasyl Zvarych, Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland, is summoned by the Polish Foreign Ministry to convey its strong protest over the statement of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the United Nations General Assembly. Zelenskyy's statement that some European countries' actions indirectly help Russia, drew condemnation from Poland.

• 15 October –
  • 2023 Polish parliamentary election and 2023 Polish referendum: Poles head to the polls to elect members of the upper house of the parliament (the Senate) and the lower house (the Sejm). Votes are also cast in a referendum on migration, removal of the border wall between Belarus and Poland, and the retirement age.
  • Exit polls suggest that Poland's opposition parties, led by the Civic Coalition under former prime minister Donald Tusk, are poised to secure a parliamentary majority, potentially ending the eight-year governance of the Law and Justice (PiS) party. The exit poll voter turnout reaches a record of 73%.
• 13 November – Poland 2050 leader Szymon Hołownia is elected as Marshal of the Sejm.

Deaths

• 4 January – Stefan Wojnecki, 93, photographer and academic.
• 9 January –
  • Stefan Brzózka, 91, chess player.
  • Wacław Sadkowski, 89, literary critic and translator, editor of Literatura na Świecie and president of Czytelnik Publishing House.
• 11 January – Jan Ludwiczak, 85, coal miner and Solidarity activist.
• 13 January – Zenon Pigoń, 82, trade unionist and politician, MP (1989–1991).
• 17 January – Maria Dworzecka, 81, Polish-American physicist and Holocaust survivor.
• 21 January –
  • Marek Plura, 52, politician and psychotherapist, MEP (2014–2019).
  • Włodzimierz Sroka, 55, economist and manager.
• 25 January – Franciszek Jamroż, 79, trade unionist and politician, mayor of Gdańsk (1991–1994).
• 27 January – Aleksander Krawczuk, 100, historian, minister of culture (1986–1989) and MP (1991–1997).
• 29 January – Piotr Waśko, 61, politician, MP (2007–2011).
• 31 January – Anna Czerwińska, 73, mountaineer.
• 24 October – Wanda Półtawska, 101, physician, author, Holocaust survivor and pro-life activist.