Waldemar Pawlak

Waldemar Pawlak

Waldemar Pawlak (born September 5, 1959 in Model in what is now the Gostynin district ) is a Polish politician . He was Prime Minister of Poland from 1992 and 1993 to 1995, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy between 2007 and 2012.

Political career

In 1984 Pawlak became a member of the ZSL ( United People's Party ), which became the PSL in 1990 . He has held a seat in the Sejm without interruption since the parliamentary elections in June 1989 . In 1991 he was elected chairman of the PSL. The qualified agricultural mechanic is a board member of the Association of Voluntary Fire Brigades in Poland.

In June 1992 he was appointed Prime Minister by President Lech Wałęsa , but was unable to form a functioning government. His reign lasted only 33 days (Polish '33 dni Pawlaka '- Pawlaks 33 days). He was followed by the Hanna Suchocka cabinet, supported by seven parties. On May 28, Hanna Suchocka lost a vote of no confidence. President Wałęsa rejected the Cabinet's resignation; it was in office until October 1993.

Parliamentary elections were held on September 19, 1993. Thereafter, the SLD and PSL (Peasant Party) formed a coalition and Pawlak led a coalition government as Prime Minister from 1993 to 1995 ( Pawlak II cabinet ).

On March 6, 1995, Pawlak was replaced as prime minister, mainly at the instigation of the president: Wałęsa had repeatedly accused the government of not pushing economic reforms energetically enough, and most recently threatened to dissolve the Sejm if the government did not resign. Pawlak still belonged to the Sejm as a member of the PSL and was PSL chairman again until 1997 and from 2005.

After the early parliamentary elections on October 21, 2007 , the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO) and the PSL formed a government coalition. Donald Tusk (PO) became Prime Minister, Pawlak became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics in the Tusk I cabinet . It ruled from November 16, 2007 to November 18, 2011.

In 1995 and 2010 Waldemar Pawlak ran for the Polish presidential election, but only achieved a low approval rating of less than five percent of the vote.

After the parliamentary elections on October 9, 2011 , the PO and PSL continued their governing coalition; Pawlak was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics in the Tusk II cabinet .

On November 17, 2012, Pawlak was voted out of office as party leader; Janusz Piechociński was elected as the new chairman. Pawlak announced his resignation from the cabinet on November 19 and was dismissed from it by Prime Minister Tusk on the same day.

In May 2015, Pawlak volunteered as Head of the Economy Department for the Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine (AMU). In the parliamentary election in October 2015 , he was unable to achieve the desired seat in the Senate.

further activities

In 2016 he was appointed a member of the Lublin Airport Supervisory Board . In 2018 he became President of the Polskie Młyny food company.

Private

He has three children, is divorced and has a new partner.

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Pawlak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} [1] Short biography on Wprost .pl (in Polish)
2. ↑ Prezydium Zarządu Głównego związku OSP RP. In: Związek Ochotniczych Straży Pożarnych RP. September 17, 2012, Retrieved November 19, 2012 (Polish).  
3. ↑ see also English Wikipedia
4. ↑ see also English Wikipedia
5. ↑ see also English Wikipedia
6. ↑ mar, rik: Zaskoczenie na scenie politycznej. Janusz Piechociński szefem PSL. Pawlak: Odejdę z rządu. In: gazeta.pl . November 17, 2012, Retrieved November 19, 2012 (Polish).  
7. ↑ wg: Pawlak podał się do dymisji: Dzisiaj przedstawię ją premierowi. (No longer available online.) In: gazeta.pl . November 19, 2012, archived from the original on November 27, 2012 ; Retrieved November 19, 2012 (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.   
8. ↑ Gratulacje dla nowego szefa PSL. (No longer available online.) In: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów. November 19, 2012, archived from the original on November 27, 2012 ; Retrieved November 20, 2012 (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.   
9. ↑ Bernhard Schragl: AMU team starts program work. Press release. In: OTS.at , May 13, 2015.
10. ↑ Waldemar Pawlak nowym członkiem rady nadzorczej Portu Lotniczego Lublin from July 12, 2016 on http://www.kurierlubelski.pl/ (Polish)
11. ↑ Management of the company | Lublin Airport at http://www.airport.lublin.pl/de/ [accessed on April 10, 2018]
12. ↑ Oficjalnie: Waldemar Pawlak prezesem Polskich Młynów from January 17, 2018 on http://www.poradnikhandlowca.com.pl/ (Polish)
13. ↑ Czego boi się Waldemar Pawlak from March 11, 2009 on http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/ (Polish)
14. ↑ Waldemar Pawlak do wzięcia. Były lider ludowców już po rozwodzie from May 20, 2014 on http://wpolityce.pl/ (Polish)