By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30% to just below 10%, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press (most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate).
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A native of the town of Pabianice, the seat of Pabianice County, within the metropolitan area of Łódź, the nation's third-largest city, Anita Błochowiak was elected, on 23 September 2001, as a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, to represent Sieradz district 11 in the Sejm.
Passendorfer served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, from 1993 to 1997 on the Democratic Left Alliance list.
She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005, getting 9,723 votes in 16 Płock district, as a candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance.