Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

1st Cabinet of Poland
1989–1991
Mazowiecki in September 1990
Date formed12 September 1989 (1989-09-12)
Date dissolved12 January 1991 (1991-01-12)
People and organisations
PresidentWojciech Jaruzelski until 22 December 1990
Lech Wałęsa from 22 December 1990
Prime MinisterTadeusz Mazowiecki
Prime Minister's history1989–1991
Deputy Prime MinisterLeszek Balcerowicz
Jan Janowski [pl]
Czesław Kiszczak (until 1990)
Czesław Janicki [pl] (until 1990)
No. of ministers25
Member party
Status in legislatureSupermajority grand coalition (National unity) (1989–1990)
Majority coalition (1990–1991)
History
Election1989 Polish parliamentary election
Legislature termContract Sejm (1989–1991)
1st Senate
PredecessorRakowski [pl]
SuccessorBielecki [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.

Letter of congratulation to former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.