Od przywódcy lokalnego do przywódcy partyjnego. Studium przypadku Janusza Palikota

From local to party leader. Janusz Palikot: a case study

Janusz Palikot is a politician and a former businessman, a Member of Parliament of the People’s Republic of Poland for the V, VI and VII terms. His biography is a string of challenges he continually faces. Palikot eagerly tells about his road to success in business and politics clearly underlining the turning points in his career. Such moments characterised his business activity in which he achieved his successes. A turning point in his professional life was also departing from business and starting political activity in which he moved up his career ladder first in the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska), achieving the position of district leader in a short time, and afterwards establishing his own party and becoming its leader. Janusz Palikot’s ambitions concerning his political activity seem to be not less important than those of his business activity time. Is the leadership of the party to which he lent his name only the next and by no means the last stage in his career? Time will tell.