Magdalena Biejat

Magdalena Agnieszka Biejat (born 11 January 1982) is a Polish politician, social activist, and translator of Spanish-language literature. She has served as Deputy Marshal of the Senate and as a senator for the Western Warsaw constituency since 2023. Previously, she was a member of the Sejm from 2019 to 2023.

Biejat is one of the leading figures in the Left political coalition and ran as the coalition's candidate in the 2025 presidential election. She was a co-leader of Partia Razem from 2022 to 2024, leaving the party before it exited the coalition.

Background and work Magdalena Agnieszka Biejat was born on 11 January 1982 in Warsaw, Poland. She attended the Polish-Spanish bilingual Cervantes High School in Warsaw. In 2006, she graduated with a master's degree in sociology from the University of Granada in Spain. In 2007, she completed a postgraduate course in the management of non-governmental organisations, a joint programme of the Collegium Civitas and the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Professionally, Biejat has worked as a translator of Spanish-language literature.

She has been involved in local activism, the study of civil society, and social advocacy, working with non-governmental organisations such as the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, or the Stefan Batory Foundation.

In 2022, she became a co-leader of Left Together alongside Adrian Zandberg. In the 2023 election she successfully ran for one of the Warsaw seats (45th district) in the Senate. Biejat was endorsed by the Senate Pact.

In early 2024 she was announced as The Left's candidate for the mayor of Warsaw in the upcoming local elections. The campaign has also been endorsed by her native Left Together, New Left, The City Is Ours, Labour Union and Polish Socialist Party. Biejat received 12.86% of overall votes placing her third after Trzaskowski (KO) and Bocheński (PiS).

In October 2024, Left Together split from The Left in disagreement of the latter's support for the incumbent Tusk government. In response, Biejat and a number of other MPs departed from Left Together. In January of the following year, she and other former Together MPs founded a non-partisan organization Common Tomorow (Wspólne Jutro).

Personal life Biejat lives in the Praga district of Warsaw. She is married and has two children. She declared being vegetarian. 2024 Mayor of Warsaw The Left

European Parliament YearElectoral listConstituencyVotes receivedResultRefTotal%2019Lewica RazemNo. 4 (Warsaw)6160.04

Sejm YearElectoral listConstituencyVotes receivedResultRefTotal%2019The LeftNo. 19 (Warsaw I)19,5011.41

Senate YearElectoral listConstituencyVotes receivedResultRefTotal%2023The LeftNo. 45 (Western Warsaw)204,93472.4