The president of the Council of Ministers,colloquially referred to as the prime minister,is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland. The responsibilities and traditions of the office stem from the creation of the contemporary Polish state,and the office is defined in the Constitution of Poland. According to the Constitution,the president nominates and appoints the prime minister,who will then propose the composition of the Cabinet. Fourteen days following their appointment,the prime minister must submit a programme outlining the government's agenda to the Sejm,requiring a vote of confidence. Conflicts stemming from both interest and powers have arisen between the offices of President and Prime Minister in the past.
Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician who has been serving as the Prime Minister of Poland since 2023,having previously served in the position from 2007 to 2014. He served as President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. Tusk was also the President of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2019 to 2022. He co-founded the Civic Platform (PO) party in 2001 and has served as its leader since 2021,having also led it between 2003 and 2014.
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki is a Polish liberal politician and economist. A leading figure of the Gdańsk-based Liberal Democratic Congress in the early 1990s,Bielecki served as Prime Minister of Poland for most of 1991. In his post-political career,Bielecki served as president of Bank Pekao between 2003 and 2010,and served as the president of the Polish Institute of International Affairs between 2009 and 2015. Since the early 2000s,Bielecki has been a member of the Civic Platform party. In 2010,the Warsaw Business Journal described Bielecki as one of the most respected economists in Poland.
Barbara Kudrycka is a professor of administrative law and public administration science and a Polish politician who has served as the Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Donald Tusk from 2007 to 2013.
The Internal Security Agency,ISA is Poland's domestic counterintelligence and security agency. The ABW is responsible for analyzing,reporting and preventing threats to Poland's internal security,including terrorism,foreign espionage,arms smuggling,drug trafficking,organized crime,corruption and economic coercion. Its powers include arresting individuals,conducting searches and investigations,and combating terrorism with a specialized armed anti-terrorist force.
Małgorzata Maria Kidawa-Błońska,née Grabska is a Polish politician,film producer,and sociologist currently serving as Marshal of the Senate. She was Marshal of the Sejm from 25 June 2015 to 11 November 2015 at the end of the Seventh term's composition of the lower house,after which being voted a Deputy Marshal of the Eighth and Ninth term,each time nominated by the opposition party Civic Platform,under the marshalcy of Marek Kuchciński and Elżbieta Witek,respectively.
Ewa Bożena Kopacz is a Polish politician who has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was Marshal of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014,the first woman to hold the office,as well as Prime Minister of Poland from 2014 to 2015. In addition,Kopacz was Minister of Health from 2007 until 2011. Since 2001,she has been a member of Civic Platform,which she chaired from 2014 to 2016. Kopacz succeeded Donald Tusk as Prime Minister,becoming the second woman to hold the office after Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993). Her term as Prime Minister ended on 16 November 2015,when she was succeeded by Beata Szydło.
Grzegorz Juliusz Schetyna is a Polish politician who has been Leader of Civic Platform and Leader of the Opposition from 26 January 2016 to 25 January 2020. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 2014 to 2015,Marshal of the Sejm from 2010 to 2011,Acting President of Poland 2010,Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2009 and Minister of the Interior and Administration 2007 to 2009. He has been a Member of the Sejm from 1997.
Jarosław Adam Gowin is a Polish conservative politician and editor. Gowin served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk between 2011 and 2013,and as Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki between 2015 and 2020,Minister of Economic Development,Labour and Technology and Deputy Prime Minister from October 2020 until his dismissal in August 2021.
Ministry of the Interior and Administration is an administration structure controlling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. After Parliamentary Election on 9 October 2011 was transformed for two ministries:Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Administration and Digitization. It was recreated in late 2015.
Jan Anthony Vincent-Rostowski,also known as Jacek Rostowski,is a Polish-British economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
Joanna Grażyna Kluzik-Rostkowska is a Polish politician and member of the Sejm for Civic Platform. She was elected for Law and Justice in 2007,but led a breakaway group in 2010 to form the more liberal Poland Comes First,of which she was leader. She resigned from the party in June 2011,joining Civic Platform following rumors. In November 2013,following a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Donald Tusk,Kluzik-Rostkowska was appointed to head the Ministry of National Education.
Tomasz Siemoniak is a Polish politician of the Civic Platform (PO) who served as Minister of National Defence in the governments of Prime Ministers Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz from 2 August 2011 to 16 November 2015 and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland under Kopacz from 22 September 2014 to 16 November 2015.
Poland–Spain relations are cultural and political relations between Poland and Spain. Both nations are members of NATO,the European Union,OECD,OSCE,the Council of Europe and the United Nations. Spain has given full support to Poland's membership in the European Union and NATO.
Marcin Korolec is a Polish civil servant and lawyer. He was the minister of environment in Donald Tusk's cabinet from 2011 to 2013 and secretary of state responsible for climate negotiations from 2013 to October 2015. He also served as deputy minister of economy responsible for trade policy in the cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz,Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk between 2005 and 2011.
Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is a Polish politician who served as the minister of the interior in the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk from 25 February 2013 to 22 September 2014.
Bartosz Adam Arłukowicz is a Polish center-left politician and pediatrician. He served as a Minister of Health from 18 October 2011 to 10 June 2015 under Donald Tusk and then Ewa Kopacz and was a member of Sejm from 2007.
Włodzimierz Witold Karpiński is a Polish politician. Karpiński served as Minister of State Treasury in the Cabinets of Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz.
Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka is a Polish politician,in the years from 2006 to 2007 the Secretary of State at the Office of the Committee for European Integration,since 2007,Vice-Rector of the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw),Poland.
Marcin Piotr Kierwiński is a polish politician,local government official,Deputy Marshal of the 3rd and 4th term of Mazovia from 2010 to 2011,Member of Parliament of the 7th,8th and 9th term,secretary of state in the Prime Minister's Chancellery and head of the political cabinet of Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz in 2015 and general secretary of the Civic Platform from 2020
