List of prime ministers of Poland


This is a list of prime ministers of Poland.

Great Chancellors of Poland (1107–1795)

Prime ministers of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813)

Presidents of the Polish National Government (1830–1831)

Presidents of the National Government of the Republic of Poland (1846)

President of the National Committee in Poznań (1848)

Presidents of the Polish National Government (1863–1864)

Prime ministers of the Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)

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Prime ministers of the People's Republic (1918)

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Note: Until 11 November, Daszyński was Prime Minister in the Polish People's Republic, based at Lublin, in the territory occupied by Austrian troops. On 11 November, he was invited to form a national government but failed and resigned three days later.

Prime ministers of the Republic of Poland (1918–1939)

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Prime ministers of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile (1939–1990)

After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile was formed under the protection of France and Britain. The government was recognized by the United Kingdom and the United States until 5 July 1945, when the Western Allies accepted Stalin's Communist government. By the end of 1946, the government-in-exile had lost recognition by all but a handful of independent nations. Despite this, it continued in London until the election of Lech Wałęsa as President of the Republic of Poland in December 1990.
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Prime ministers of the Government-in-Exile (with little or no international recognition, 1945–1990)

In 1954, one group within the government-in-exile opposed the continuation of August Zaleski as President of the government-in-exile beyond the end of his seven-year term. They established the Council of National Unity, vested the powers of the President in the Rada Trzech, and appointed their own government, the Executive for National Unity. After the death of Zaleski in 1972, the Council of National Unity dissolved and ceded its powers to Zaleski's successor Stanisław Ostrowski.
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Prime ministers of the Republic of Poland (1989–present)

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Invited to form a government by the President, but failed to form a government and resigned.

  1. Prime ministers of Poland after the Second World War
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from:22/07/1944 till:05/02/1947 shift: color:PZPR text:Edward Osóbka-Morawski
from:06/02/1947 till:20/11/1952 shift: color:PZPR text:Józef Cyrankiewicz
from:20/11/1952 till:18/03/1954 shift: color:PZPR text:Bolesław Bierut
from:18/03/1954 till:23/12/1970 shift: color:PZPR text:Józef Cyrankiewicz
from:23/12/1970 till:18/02/1980 shift: color:PZPR text:Piotr Jaroszewicz
from:18/02/1980 till:24/08/1980 shift: color:PZPR text:Edward Babiuch
from:24/08/1980 till:11/02/1981 shift: color:PZPR text:Józef Pińkowski
from:11/02/1981 till:06/11/1985 shift: color:PZPR text:Wojciech Jaruzelski
from:06/11/1985 till:27/09/1988 shift: color:PZPR text:Zbigniew Messner
from:27/09/1988 till:01/08/1989 shift: color:PZPR text:Mieczysław Rakowski
from:01/08/1989 till:24/08/1989 shift: color:PZPR text:Czesław Kiszczak
from:24/08/1989 till:14/12/1990 shift: color:UD text:Tadeusz Mazowiecki
from:12/01/1991 till:05/12/1991 shift: color:KLD text:Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
from:23/12/1991 till:05/06/1992 shift: color:PC text:Jan Olszewski
from:05/06/1992 till:10/07/1992 shift: color:PSL text:Waldemar Pawlak
from:11/07/1992 till:25/10/1993 shift: color:UD text:Hanna Suchocka
from:26/10/1993 till:01/03/1995 shift: color:PSL text:Waldemar Pawlak
from:04/03/1995 till:26/01/1996 shift: color:SLD text:Józef Oleksy
from:07/02/1996 till:31/10/1997 shift: color:SLD text:Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
from:31/10/1997 till:19/10/2001 shift: color:AWS text:Jerzy Buzek
from:19/10/2001 till:02/05/2004 shift: color:SLD text:Leszek Miller
from:02/05/2004 till:31/10/2005 shift: color:SLD text:Marek Belka
from:31/10/2005 till:14/07/2006 shift: color:PiS text:Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
from:14/07/2006 till:16/11/2007 shift: color:PiS text:Jarosław Kaczyński
from:16/11/2007 till:22/09/2014 shift: color:PO text:Donald Tusk
from:22/09/2014 till:16/11/2015 shift: color:PO text:Ewa Kopacz
from:16/11/2015 till:11/12/2017 shift: color:PiS text:Beata Szydło
from:11/12/2017 till:end shift: color:PiS text:Mateusz Morawiecki