Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz


12th Prime Minister of Poland
In office October 31, 2005 – July 14, 2006
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński
Deputy	Ludwik Dorn Zyta Gilowska Roman Giertych Andrzej Lepper
Preceded by	Marek Belka
Succeeded by	Jarosław Kaczyński
Acting Mayor of Warsaw
In office July 20, 2006 – December 2, 2006
President	Lech Kaczyński
Prime Minister	Jarosław Kaczyński
Preceded by	Mirosław Kochalski (acting)
Succeeded by	Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Personal details
Born	(1959-12-20) December 20, 1959 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Political party	Law and Justice, –
Spouse(s)	Maria Marcinkiewicz (m. 1981, div. 2009) Izabela Olchowicz (m. 2009, div.2016)
Profession	Physicist
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Awards

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimʲɛʂ mart͡ɕiŋˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]) (born December 20, 1959) is a Polish conservative 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

Born in Gorzów Wielkopolski, 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.

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Marcinkiewicz strongly supports Polish membership in EU, although he disagrees with several more integrationist ideas, such as the European Constitution. Economic policy of his cabinet is a continuation of those conducted by previous governments.

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.^[1] He was succeeded as prime minister on July 14 by Kaczyński.

Later life

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, losing the election.

He was one of the directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development^[2] from March 2007 until May 2008.

From 2008 until 2013 he worked for Goldman Sachs, presumably as a lobbyist.^[3] Despite his work for Goldman Sachs, major polish newspapers and news television channels, informed that former polish prime minister barely spoke english after one year spent in London. He could not answer simple questions asked by warsaw based english native speakers hired by one of the polish tabloid who called him to offer a job in other bank in UK.^[4]^[5]^[6]

In 2009, after divorcing his wife and mother of four, he married his former mistress, 22 years his junior,^[7] with whom he was embroiled in a bitter divorce battle in September 2015.^[8]

Criticism

In the first half of 2009 he came under heavy criticism because of not keeping up with the moral values he promoted while being engaged in politics. In particular, it was discovered that he was criticizing extra-marital affairs and praising traditional family values, while having an affair himself.^[9]

Famous quotes

He became famous for his enthusiastic "Yes, yes, yes!" after the success in negotiations of the EU budget on 17 December 2005,^[10]^[11] - the phrase that has entered into the Polish popular culture as a symbol of a political success 'with a human face' (not refraining from real emotions),^[12] but at the same time as a symbol of untempered self-confidence. As a rhetorical device (epizeuxis), it has already been re-used by Volkswagen in its publicity campaign.^[13]

References

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Political offices
Preceded by Marek Belka	Prime Minister of Poland 2005–2006	Succeeded by Jarosław Kaczyński

Prime Minister of Poland

Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813)	Stanisław Małachowski Ludwik Szymon Gutakowski Józef Poniatowski (acting) Stanisław Kostka Potocki

Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918)	Kucharzewski Ponikowski Kanty Steczkowski Świeżyński Wróblewski

Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)	Daszyński Moraczewski Paderewski Skulski Grabski Witos Ponikowski Śliwiński Nowak Sikorski Witos Grabski Skrzyński Witos Bartel Piłsudski Bartel Świtalski Bartel Sławek Piłsudski Sławek Prystor Jędrzejewicz Kozłowski Sławek Zyndram-Kościałkowski Składkowski

Polish government-in-exile (1939–1990)	Sikorski Mikołajczyk Arciszewski Bór-Komorowski Tomaszewski Odzierzyński Hryniewski Mackiewicz Hanke Pająk Zawisza Muchniewski Urbański Sabbat Szczepanik

Polish People's Republic (1944–1989)	Osóbka-Morawski Cyrankiewicz Bierut Cyrankiewicz Jaroszewicz Babiuch Pińkowski Jaruzelski Messner Rakowski Kiszczak Mazowiecki

Third Polish Republic (1989–present)	Mazowiecki Bielecki Olszewski Pawlak Suchocka Pawlak Oleksy Cimoszewicz Buzek Miller Belka Marcinkiewicz Kaczyński Tusk Kopacz Szydło

The Cabinet of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

Original members	Ludwik Dorn Grażyna Gęsicka Krzysztof Jurgiel Tomasz Lipiec Teresa Lubińska Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Stefan Meller Krzysztof Michałkiewicz Andrzej Mikosz Jerzy Polaczek Zbigniew Religa Michał Seweryński Radosław Sikorski Jan Szyszko Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Zbigniew Wassermann Piotr Woźniak Zbigniew Ziobro

Joined later	Anna Fotyga Roman Giertych Zyta Gilowska Wojciech Jasiński Anna Kalata Andrzej Lepper Rafał Wiechecki

Parliamentary caucus heads of the Law and Justice Party

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński Ludwik Dorn Przemysław Gosiewski Marek Kuchciński Przemysław Gosiewski Grażyna Gęsicka Marek Kuchciński (acting) Mariusz Błaszczak Ryszard Terlecki

Mayors of Warsaw

First Polish Republic	Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski Józef Michał Łukasiewicz Andrzej Rafałowicz Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski Józef Michał Łukasiewicz and Andrzej Rafałowicz

Prussian Occupation	Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove Friedrich Georg Tilly

Duchy of Warsaw	Joachim Moszyński Paweł Bieliński Stanisław Węgrzecki

Congress Poland	Karol Woyda Stanisław Węgrzecki Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński Aleksander Graybner Teodor Andrault de Langeron Kazimierz Woyda Zygmunt Wielopolski Kalikst Witkowski Sokrates Starynkiewicz Mikołaj Bibikow Wiktor Litwiński Aleksander Miller

World War I	Zdzisław Lubomirski Piotr Drzewiecki

Second Polish Republic	Stanisław Nowodworski Władysław Jabłoński Zygmunt Słomiński Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski Stefan Starzyński

General Government	Julian Kulski Marceli Porowski Helmut Otto Oskar Rudolf Dengel Ludwig Leist

People's Republic of Poland	Marian Spychalski Stanisław Tołwiński Jerzy Albrecht Janusz Zarzycki Zygmunt Dworakowski Janusz Zarzycki Jerzy Majewski Mieczysław Dębicki Jerzy Bolesławski

Third Polish Republic	Stanisław Wyganowski Mieczysław Bareja Marcin Święcicki Paweł Piskorski Wojciech Kozak Lech Kaczyński Mirosław Kochalski (acting) Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (acting) Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 70140662 LCCN: n2007038540 ISNI: 0000 0000 7881 0469 GND: 134187296

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