Dorota Niedziela

Dorota Niedziela, née Siwiec (born August 20, 1964, in Oświęcim) is a Polish politician and veterinarian. She has been a member of the Sejm (Polish Parliament) for the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th terms (since 2011). She served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Environment in 2015 and has been the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm for the 10th term since 2023.

Biography In 1991, she graduated from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. She also completed postgraduate studies in veterinary surgery and radiology at the same university. She began her professional career as a veterinarian and became a co-owner of veterinary clinics in Kęty and Bielsko-Biała. She was appointed to the board of the Silesian Veterinary Polyclinic in 2006 and became the Secretary of the Polish Association of Veterinarians in 2010.

In 2001, she took part in organizing the local structures of the Civic Platform in Kęty. She unsuccessfully ran for the council of the Oświęcim County in 2006 and for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship Sejmik in 2010. In the 2011 parliamentary elections, she won a seat in the Sejm on the Civic Platform list, receiving 6,166 votes in the Chrzanów constituency. She held this position until November 11, 2015.

In the 2015 elections, she was re-elected to the Sejm, receiving 7,967 votes. In the 8th term of the Sejm, she became the Deputy Chairwoman of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and a member of the Environment, Natural Resources, and Forestry Committee.

Results in National Elections Election Electoral Committee Office District Result 2011 Civic Platform Sejm (7th term) no. 12 6,166 (2.58%) 2015 Sejm (8th term) 7,967 (2.93%) 2019 European Coalition European Parliament (9th term) no. 10 11,814 (0.68%) 2019 Civic Coalition Sejm (9th term) no. 12 22,013 (6.96%) 2023 Sejm (10th term) 28,783 (7.89%)

Personal life Her husband was Marcin Niedziela, the Oświęcim county mayor and a politician from the Civic Platform, who died in 2021. She has two daughters.