Waldemar Pawlak
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Waldemar Pawlak is a Polish politician. He has twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. From November 2007 to November 2012 he served as Deputy Prime Mini
Pawlak in 2025
Pawlak in 1994
Deputy Prime Minister W. Pawlak at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia in Istanbul 2008
Jan Olszewski
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Jan Ferdynand Olszewski was a Polish conservative lawyer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Poland for five months between December 1991 and early June 1992 and later became a leading
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…became leader (Prezes) of the UPP in 1991. On 5 June 1992, 00:00 AM, after a vote of no confidence was approved, with 273 in favour and 119 against, Jan Olszewski was forced to resign as prime minister and his cabinet was immediately replaced in an event known as the nightshift ("Nocna zmiana"). After Olszewski's…
Olszewski (right) defending his government's actions on Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski's talk show in July 1993
Olszewski greeting Pope John Paul II to the Sejm and Senate Complex, 1999
Olszewski in 2006
Olszewski lying in state before the funeral in Warszaw