Mariusz Kamiński

Mariusz Kamiński
Kamiński in 2019
Minister of the Interior and Administration
In office 14 August 2019 – 27 November 2023
Prime Minister	Mateusz Morawiecki
Preceded by	Elżbieta Witek
Succeeded by	Paweł Szefernaker
Coordinator of Secret Services
In office 16 November 2015 – 27 November 2023
Prime Minister	Beata Szydło (2015-2017) Mateusz Morawiecki (2017-2023)
Preceded by	Marek Biernacki
Succeeded by	Tomasz Siemoniak
Head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau
In office 3 August 2006 – 13 October 2009
Succeeded by	Paweł Wojtunik
Member of the Sejm
In office 20 October 1997 – 18 October 2001
Constituency	State list
In office 19 October 2001 – 12 November 2023
Constituency	19 – Warsaw
In office 13 November 2023 – 21 December 2023
Constituency	7 – Chełm
Personal details
Born	(1965-09-25) 25 September 1965 Sochaczew, Poland
Political party	Law and Justice
Alma mater	University of Warsaw
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Criminal details
Criminal status	-

Mariusz Kamiński (born 25 September 1965) is a Polish politician who served as the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) from August 2006 to October 2009. He served between 2019 and 2023 as the Minister of the Interior and Administration, in addition to coordinating Polish secret services, which he had done previously as a minister without portfolio.

Kamiński also served as a member of the Sejm (1997–2006, 2011–2023).

Career

He had previously been a member of the Sejm, elected on 25 September 2005, getting 9142 votes in 19 Warsaw district, as a candidate on the Law and Justice list. He was also a member of Sejm 1997–2001 and Sejm 2001–2005. Kamiński was dismissed (as the head of CBA) on 13 October 2009 by prime minister Donald Tusk.

Kamiński was sentenced to three years in prison for abuse of power in March 2015 but appealed the decision. After the 2015 Polish parliamentary election the Polish President Andrzej Duda pardoned Kamiński, the President's spokesmen argued that people who fight corruption "deserve special protection." In March 2016, the appeal court while examining the appeals raised during the case, in regards to the decision above of the President, annulled the judgement and discontinued the proceedings. On 31 May 2017 the Supreme Court, in an adopted resolution, recognised that pardon as ineffective. Despite the opinion of European Commission, CJEU, Venice Commission, Association of Polish Judges "Iustitia" and the United States Department of State, Polish Constitutional Tribunal ruled (with the one dissenting opinion) that the constitutional right of grace as a concept broader than pardon also includes acts of individual abolition. Afterwards, Kamiński became the head of the secret services as a minister without portfolio.

Kamiński also served as a member of the Sejm (1997–2006, 2011–2023). In December 2023 his mandate expired due to his being sentenced to prison for an intentional crime. In January 2024, Mariusz Kamiński was arrested at Poland's Presidential Palace due to a two-year jail sentence handed down by a Warsaw court in December 2023.

Personal life

Kamiński is strongly opposed to communism. In 1981, he was sentenced to a year in a correctional facility for desecrating a monument of gratitude to the Red Army. He is also one of the few members of the conservative Law and Justice Party who is publicly an atheist. Despite this, in 2019, when he was sworn in as the Minister of Interior and Administration, he added the phrase "so help me God" to the words of his oath.

Awards

Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

See also

• Members of Polish Sejm 2005–2007

External links

• Mariusz Kamiński - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
• Mariusz Kamiński on Twitter
• Biography on government page from May 2020