The Council of Ministers (cabinet), or Polish government, consists of ministers, heads of departments of ministerial rank, and heads of central institutions. The Council of Ministers is the body which exercises executive power. Under the Public Administration Branches Act the Prime Minister, who heads the Council of Ministers, enjoys a considerable degree of freedom in decisions concerning its personnel. The Prime Minister may create, combine, or dissolve departments, change their area of responsibility, and even apply to the President to expand the Council of Ministers to include ministers without portfolio, or coordinators for projects performed by the Council of Ministers, e.g. reform of the educational system or health service. The chairpersons of certain committees specified in the legislation (e.g. the European Integration Committee), may also be appointed to the Council of Ministers. The composition of the Council of Ministers is proposed by the Prime Minister, who lodges an application to the President of the Republic for the appoinment of cabinet members. The President appoints the Council of Ministers and receives their oath "of loyalty to the Constitution and other laws of the Republic of Poland". Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The current government structure consists of a council of ministers led by a Prime Minister, typically chosen from a majority coalition in the bicameral legislatures lower house. ... Following are the successive heads of state of Poland. ... This article is about the lower chamber of Polish parliament. ... The Senate (Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... Political parties in Poland lists political parties in Poland. ... League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin) is a right-wing and populist opposition party in the Polish Parliament. ... Partia Centrum (Centre Party) is a centrist, moderately conservative political party in Poland. ... The Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Poland, founded in May 9, 2005 as an enlargement of the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności). ... Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) (PiS) is a Polish central-right political party, established in 2001, by the Kaczyński brothers: Lech, the former justice minister and the current mayor of the capital, Warsaw, and Jarosław, who is the President of the party. ... Citizens Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) is a Polish conservative-liberal political party, modelled after the two main American parties. ... The Polish Peasant Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe) is a political party in Poland. ... Social Democracy of Poland (Socjaldemokracja Polska, SDPL) is a new leftist political party in Poland founded in April 2004 as splinter group from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (it should not be confused with a former party Socialdemocracy of the Republic of Poland - SdRP). ... Alliance of the Democratic Left (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD) is one of the main Polish social democratic political parties. ... Self-Defense of the Polish Republic (Polish: Samoobrona Rzeczypospolitiej Polskiej, SRP) is a political party and trade union in Poland. ... Labor Union (Unia Pracy) is a Polish political party. ... Politics of Poland Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Poland ... Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 25 (1st round), and Sunday December 9, 1990 (2n round). ... Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 5 (1st round), and Sunday November 19, 1990 (2n round). ... Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday October 8. ... Presidential elections will be held in Poland during 2005, probably in September or October. ... Sejm election German Minority - 2 MPs Senat election Categories: Politics of Poland | 1997 elections | Elections in Poland ... Sejm election German Minority - 2 MPs Senat election Categories: Politics of Poland | 2001 elections | Elections in Poland ... A general election to the Sejm is not scheduled yet, but there are two options: in spring, probably June 19, 2005 (or other Sunday in June) as it was promised in electoral campaign by winning party SLD, now as the support for ruling party goes down they opt for the... Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on June 13, 2004. ... Poland became a full member of NATO in March 1999, and of the European Union in May 2004. ...

Currently, the Council of Ministers consists of 17 members:

• Marek Belka - Prime Minister
• Jacek Piechota - Minister of Economy and Labour
• Izabela Jaruga - Nowacka - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Social Policy
• Adam Rotfeld - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Waldemar Dąbrowski - Minister of Culture
• Ryszard Kalisz - Minister of Interior and Administration
• Michał Kleiber - Minister of Scientific Research and Information Technology
• Jerzy Pilarczyk - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Krzysztof Opawski - Minister of Infrastructure
• Mirosław Gronicki - Minister of Finance
• Marek Balicki - Minister of Health
• Andrzej Kalwas - Minister of Justice
• Mirosław Sawicki - Minister of National Education
• Jacek Socha - Minister of Treasury
• Jerzy Szmajdziński - Minister of National Defence
• Tomasz Podgajniak - Minister of Enviroment
• Sławomir Cytrycki - Minister, Member of Council of Ministers

The Council of Ministers also manages the current policy of state, ensures the execution of the law by issuing ordinances, coordinates and controls the work of government administrative bodies, ensures public order and the internal and external security of the state, protects the interests of the State Treasury, approves the draft of the budget, and supervises its execution. The Council of Ministers also signs international agreements which require ratification, and can revoke other international agreements. Marek Belka Marek Belka (b. ... Adam Daniel Rotfeld (born March 4, 1938), Ph. ... Jerzy Szmajdziński Jerzy Szmajdziński (born April 9, 1952) is a Polish minister of defence. ...

Members of the Council of Ministers are jointly responsible to Sejm for the operation of the government; they can also be individually responsible for the tasks entrusted to them by the Prime Minister or falling within the authority of their ministries. Any breach of the law or crime related to the offices they hold carry the risk of trial before the State Tribunal, a special court appointed by Sejm, in which members of Sejm act as judges. The Council of Ministers is represented in the different voivodships of the country by its voivodes or regional governors. There are 16 of them - one for each voivodeship. The voivodes supervise the state administration within the territory of their voivodeship. The officials subordinate to the voivodes, as well as those working in the central offices and ministries, constitute the civil service corps, a politically independent body or administrators. The civil service corps is headed by the Prime Minister. This article is about the lower chamber of Polish parliament. ... A Voivodship (Romanian: Voievodat, Polish: Województwo, Serbian: Vojvodstvo or Vojvodina) was a feudal state in medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod. ...

Alongside the civil service corps, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and all ministries entail political cabinets - teams of advisors working for the government and each ministry on detailed policy guidelines.