Szydło cabinet

Prime Minister Beata Szydło, 2016

As a result of the parliamentary elections in October 2015, the Szydło Cabinet formed the government of the Republic of Poland from November 16, 2015 to December 11, 2017 under the leadership of Beata Szydło .

Ruling parties

The right-wing parties Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , Solidarna Polska and Polska Razem have stood together, with all candidacies taking place on the PiS electoral list. The respective party leaders Jarosław Kaczyński , Zbigniew Ziobro and Jarosław Gowin made this agreement to appear together in the parliamentary elections in the summer of 2014. The PiS Association achieved an absolute majority in the Sejm (lower house) and in the Senate (upper house), so there was no coalition another campaigning party necessary. In November 2017, Gowin founded the Porozumienie party , which was expanded to include other conservative-liberal circles and has since replaced the previous Polska Razem party within the government camp.

The 235 of 460 mandates in the Sejm can be assigned to the three election winners ¹ as follows:

Political party		Alignment	MPs	Cabinet members	Party leader
	Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) Law and Justice	conservative , national conservative	217/235	19th	Jarosław Kaczyński
	Porozumienie (P) communication	conservative , economically liberal	8/235	1	Jaroslaw Gowin
	Solidarna Polska (SP) Solidarity Poland	nationally conservative , skeptical of the EU	9/235	2	Zbigniew Ziobro

Explanation : ¹ Prawica Rzeczypospolitej has another seat, but its MP has remained non-attached.

Composition of the Council of Ministers

position	Ministry / Office	Surname	Political party	Taking office	Resignation
Prime Minister		Beata Szydło	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Vice Prime Minister	Culture and national heritage	Piotr Gliński	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Vice Prime Minister	Science and higher education	Jaroslaw Gowin	P	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Vice Prime Minister	Economic development	Mateusz Morawiecki	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
	Finances			Sept 28, 2016
minister	Finances	Paweł Szałamacha	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Sept 28, 2016
minister	defense	Antoni Macierewicz	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Exterior	Witold Waszczykowski	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Interior and administration	Mariusz Błaszczak	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Judiciary	Zbigniew Ziobro	SP	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
	Attorney General			4th March 2016
minister	Marine economy and inland shipping	Marek Gróbarczyk	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	State assets	Dawid Jackiewicz	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Sept 15, 2016
minister	Head of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers	Henryk Kowalczyk	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Minister	digitalization	Anna Streżyńska	independent	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	energy	Krzysztof Tchórzewski	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Minister (without portfolio)		Elżbieta Witek	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Minister	National education	Anna Zalewska	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Infrastructure and construction	Andrzej Adamczyk	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Minister	Family, work and social	Elżbieta Rafalska	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	environment	Jan Szyszko	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Agriculture and Rural Development	Krzysztof Jurgiel	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Minister (without portfolio)	Intelligence Coordinator	Mariusz Kamiński	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
Minister (without portfolio)	Office manager	Beata Kempa	SP	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Sport and tourism	Witold Bańka	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017
minister	Healthcare	Konstanty Radziwiłł	PiS	Nov 16, 2015	Dec 11, 2017

Media reactions

Presentation to the government

The Polish media discussed the appointment of Antoni Macierewicz as defense minister, on the one hand because he is a controversial figure, on the other hand because Beata Szydło had previously announced several times that he would put the moderate Jarosław Gowin on this post.

The Tagesspiegel criticized the new defense minister as an "extremely controversial" politician. The newspaper emphasized that Antoni Macierewicz had a “brilliant dissident career” during the communist era , but from 1992 onwards it sparked several controversies. Macierewicz had accused Lech Wałęsa of working with the Stasi, which brought the entire government down. Furthermore, he is said to have described the falsified Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Radio Maryja in 2002 as interesting and "partly in accordance with the truth". The spokesman for the incumbent minister called these allegations a lie and requested apologies.

The left-liberal Gazeta Wyborcza took the former CEO of Bank Zachodni WBK and incumbent development minister Mateusz Morawiecki positively and described him with the words "from revolutionary to millionaire and vice-premier". The mayor of Wrocław Rafał Dutkiewicz described Morawiecki as an expert. After the system change, he made a name for himself with the publication of employees of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa .

Die Welt am Sonntag reported that the government under Szydło was converting the country into an authoritarian state in the first few months of its term in office.

See also

• List of Prime Ministers of Poland
• List of Presidents of Poland

Web links

• List of ministers on the PiS website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jaroslaw Kaczynski podpisał porozumienie ze Zbigniewem Ziobro i Jarosławem Gowinem. In: wiadomosci.wp.pl. July 19, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015 (Polish). 
2. ↑ Dawid Jackiewicz zdymisjonowany. Do końca roku Ministerstwo Skarbu zostanie rozwiązane. (No longer available online.) In: Newsweek . September 15, 2016, archived from the original on September 14, 2016 ; Retrieved September 15, 2016 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ The new Minister of Defense and the Jewish World Conspiracy. In: tagesspiegel.de. November 13, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Antoni Macierewicz na celowniku izraelskich mediów. Za Protokoły Mędrców Syjonu. (No longer available online.) In: wp.pl. November 12, 2015, archived from the original on November 15, 2015 ; Retrieved November 17, 2015 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Mateusz Morawiecki - od rewolucjonisty do milionera i wicepremiera. In: wyborcza.pl. November 12, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 (Polish). 
6. ↑ When a government goes nuts. Welt am Sonntag, December 20, 2015, accessed on December 20, 2015 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Kopacz cabinet	Government of the Republic of Poland November 16, 2015 - December 11, 2017	Cabinet Morawiecki I