Genowefa Tokarska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Genowefa Tokarska

Polish politician and deputy

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1949

Place of Birth: Biszcza, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: politician

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Genowefa Tokarska, née Bzdyra (born 5 August 1949) is a Polish politician who currently serves as a member of the Sejm, a position she has held since 2011.
Born in Biszcza, she graduated from the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, then the Lublin Agricultural Academy, and in 1989 graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics.
After graduating from Lublin, she became a teacher at an agricultural school in Rózaniec from 1972 to 1978, then worked at a bank in Ksiezpol, serving as its director from 1981 to 1990.In 1990, Tokarska became mayor of Gmina Biszcza, and served five terms in that role.
In 2007, she was elected governor of Lublin Voivodeship.
After serving a term as governor, she was selected by the Polish People's Party as a candidate for the Sejm out of Chelm, and as elected with 8,906 votes; she was re-elected to the same position in 2015 with 4,606 votes.
On the Sejm, Tokarska serves on the Public Finance Committee.
She also ran in the 2014 European Parliament elections, finishing fifth to Krzysztof Hetman out of ten candidates with 6,123 votes.
During her second term, she spearheaded a 16 million zl ($4232804.23) expansion of the Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszynski.