Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki
1st Cabinet of Poland
1989–1991
Mazowiecki in September 1990
Date formed	12 September 1989 (1989-09-12)
Date dissolved	12 January 1991 (1991-01-12)
People and organisations
President	Wojciech Jaruzelski until 22 December 1990 Lech Wałęsa from 22 December 1990
Prime Minister	Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Prime Minister's history	1989–1991
Deputy Prime Minister	Leszek Balcerowicz Jan Janowski [pl] Czesław Kiszczak (until 1990) Czesław Janicki [pl] (until 1990)
No. of ministers	25
Member party	At beginning   Solidarity Citizens' Committee   United People's Party   Polish United Workers' Party   Democratic Party At end   Solidarity Citizens' Committee   Democratic Union   Polish People's Party   Democratic Party   Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action   Forum of the Democratic Right
Status in legislature	Supermajority grand coalition (National unity) (1989–1990) Majority coalition (1990–1991)
History
Election	1989 Polish parliamentary election
Legislature term	Contract Sejm (1989–1991) 1st Senate
Predecessor	Rakowski [pl]
Successor	Bielecki [pl]

The Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, came to power following the 1989 legislative election. He was nominated by the President as the Prime Minister on 24 August 1989 in order to form a new government after the Sejm rejected the Communist cabinet of Czesław Kiszczak, and subsequently obtained the mandatory motion of confidence in the Sejm on 12 September 1989. The cabinet resigned on 25 November 1990, and the Sejm accepted the resignation of the cabinet on 14 December, though it continued to perform its duties until the formation of the Cabinet of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki on 4 January 1991.

With a majority of ministers endorsed by the Solidarity trade union, it was the first government in Poland and anywhere in Eastern Europe since the late 1940s not to be dominated by Communists and fellow travelers.