Waldemar Pawlak
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Waldemar Pawlak (born September 5, 1959), twice the Prime Minister of Poland (the first time in June 1992, he failed to form a cabinet). In 1993, he was nominated for the post by President Lech Walesa, but received little support from the president. In early 1995, Walesa threatened to dissolve parliament if the Pawlak government was not replaced. Pawlak resigned on March 1, 1995 and was replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.
He was elected President of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) in 1991, and was the leader of PSL in Polish Parliament Seym I and II.
In 1995 presidential election that brought A. Kwasniewski to the office, Pawlak got 4.31% of the vote (behind Walesa, Kuron and Olszewski).
He made headlines when he chose Miss Polonia Ewa Wachowicz as his press secretary.
He has a 17 ha farm in Kamionka in Plockie province. He is active in voluntary fire brigade service as well as in business.
Members of Pawlak cabinet:
- Prime Minister: Waldemar Pawlak (PSL)
- Deputy PM and Minister of Finance: Marek Borowski (SLD)
- Deputy PM and Minister of Justice: Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (SLD)
- Deputy PM and Minister of Education: Aleksander Luczak (PSL)
- Minister of Construction: Barbara Bilda (SLD)
- Minister of Culture: Kazimierz Dejmek (PSL)
- Minister of Property Conversion: Wieslaw Kaczmarek (SLD)
- Minister of Defense: Piotr Kolodziejczyk
- Minister of Transportation: Boguslaw Liberadzki (SLD)
- Minister of Interior: Andrzej Milczanowski
- Minister of Labor: Leszek Miller (SLD)
- Minister of Foreign Affairs: Andrzej Olechowski
- Director of the CUP (Central Planning Office): Miroslaw Pietrewicz (PSL)
- Minister of Economic Cooperation with Foreign Business: Leslaw Podkanski (PSL)
- Minister of Industry and Trade: Marek Pol (UP)
- Director of the URM (the Cabinet Office): Michal Strak (PSL)
- Minister of Agriculture: Andrzej Smietanko (PSL)
- Minister of Communications: Andrzej Zielinski (PSL)
- Minister of Environment Preservation: Andrzej Zelichowski (SLD)
- Minister of Health: Ryszard Zochowski (SLD)
- President of the Committee for Scientific Research: Witold Karczewski
| Preceded by: Jan Olszewski | Prime Minister of Poland 1992 | Succeeded by: Hanna Suchocka |
| Preceded by: Hanna Suchocka | Prime Minister of Poland 1993–1995 | Succeeded by: Józef Oleksy |