Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

Infobox Officeholder
name = Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz


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order = Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
12^th Prime Minister of the Third Republic
term_start = October 31 2005
term_end = July 14 2006
vicepresident =
viceprimeminister = Ludwik Dorn, Zyta Gilowska, Roman Giertych, Andrzej Lepper
deputy =
president = Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Lech Kaczyński
primeminister =
predecessor = Marek Belka
successor = Jarosław Kaczyński
order2 = Minister of State Treasury (acting)
term_start2 = January 4 2006
term_end2 = February 15 2006
vicepresident2 =
viceprimeminister2 =
deputy2 =
president2 = Lech Kaczyński
primeminister2 = Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
predecessor2 = Andrzej Mikosz
successor2 = Wojciech Jasiński
order3 = President of Warsaw (acting)
term_start3 = July 20 2006
term_end3 = December 2 2006
vicepresident3 =
viceprimeminister3 =
deputy3 =
president3 = Lech Kaczyński
primeminister3 = Jarosław Kaczyński
predecessor3 = Mirosław Kochalski (acting)
successor3 = Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
birth_date = birth date and age|1959|12|20
birth_place =
death_date =
death_place =
constituency =
party = Law and Justice, -
spouse = Maria Marcinkiewicz
profession = Physicist
religion = Roman Catholic


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Audio|Pl-Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz.ogg|Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (pronounced|kaˈʑimʲεʐ martɕinˈkʲevʲitʂ) (born December 20, 1959 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from October 31, 2005 to July 14, 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party ("Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS").

Early life

Marcinkiewicz graduated in 1984 from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (having studied physics) of the Wrocław University. He also completed post-graduate course in Administration at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He worked as an elementary school teacher and a headmaster in his homecity of Gorzów Wielkopolski.

In the 1980s, he was also a member of the Solidarity movement and editor of underground press materials. In 1992, he became a State Secretary (formal name for deputy minister) in the Ministry of National Education. From 1999 to 2000, he was the cabinet chief for prime minister Jerzy Buzek.

Cabinet of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

Following the victory of the Law and Justice party in the September 2005 Polish parliamentary elections, its prime ministerial candidate, party leader Jarosław Kaczyński decided against becoming prime minister so as not to damage the chances of his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński in the then-upcoming October presidential election. Instead the little-known Marcinkiewicz became PM, leading a coalition formed by Jarosław, who remained in the background, but influential.

Before his prime ministerial appointment, Marcinkiewicz remained a political cipher, which resulted in a political carte blanche after the appointment. Relatively unknown to the public at that time, due to his intensive political activity Marcinkiewicz gained a high public recognition, rapidly becoming the most trusted and popular politician in Poland. Marcinkiewicz strongly supports Polish membership in EU, although he disagrees with several more integrationist ideas, such as the European Constitution.Fact|date=February 2007 Economic policy of his cabinet is a continuation of those conducted by previous governments.Fact|date=February 2007

Following speculations of a rift with Jarosław Kaczyński, Marcinkiewicz tendered his resignation on July 7 2006, maintaining however that no one will insert a wedge between him and Kaczyński, words he directed at Donald Tusk. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5159994.stm
title=Poland's prime minister resigns
publisher=BBC News Online
date=2006-07-07
accessdate=2006-07-14] He was succeeded as prime minister on July 14 by Kaczyński.

Acting mayor of Warsaw

On July 18, Marcinkiewicz was appointed as the temporary acting mayor of Warsaw, a so-called "comissar". During the municipal elections in 2006, he was the Law and Justice candidate for mayor of Warsaw. In the first round of voting, held on November 12, he got 38.42%, while his closest rival, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz of the opposition Civic Platform won 34.15% of the votes. In the second round, held on November 26, he got 46.82% of the votes, thus losing the elections. Since 1 March 2007 he is one of the directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [http://www.ebrd.com/about/structure/direct.htm] .

Trivia

* Marcinkewicz is married and has four children.
* Among the government, many ministers were members of Opus Dei [http://wybory2005.wp.pl/kat,1329,wid,8138795,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=148a5] .
* As at 27th of March 2007 he is Director for Poland, Bulgaria and Albania for EBRD Bank.

References

External links

* [http://www.marcinkiewicz.waw.pl/ Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz's homepage]
* [http://kmarcinkiewicz.blog.onet.pl/ Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz's blog]
* [http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=671 100 Days of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz: Euro-Pragmatism Victory]
* [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060708/ap_on_re_eu/poland_prime_minister Jarosław Kaczyński Becomes Poland's Prime Minister]