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Magdalena Agnieszka Biejat (; born 11 January 1982) is a Polish politician and translator of Spanish-language literature. She was a member of the Sejm for Warsaw I between 2019 and 2023, when she was elected to Senate for the 45th district (Western Warsaw). Since 13 November 2023, she has served as a Deputy Marshal of the Senate. She is currently one of the leaders of The Left coalition, and was one of the co-leaders of Left Together until her departure from the party in October 2024. She was a candidate for the 2025 Polish presidential election.
In 2019, she became deputy chairperson of The Left political alliance.
She has participated in multiple strikes against the tightening of the Polish abortion law and in Polish Pride parade. On 19 November 2020, during one of the protests, she was attacked with tear gas by a policeman, despite not posing any threat and despite showing her MP ID. The worrying situation raised concerns about Police brutality of the Polish police during street protests.
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).
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