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Leszek Cezary Miller IPA: ['lεʃεk ʦε'zarɨ 'mʲilεr] (born July 3, 1946 in Żyrardów) is a Polish left-wing politician, a many-year leader of the Democratic Left Alliance, Prime Minister of the government of the Republic of Poland in 2001-2004. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland represents the Council of Ministers (the Cabinet) and directs their work, supervises territorial self-government within the guidelines and in ways described in the Constitution and other legislation, and acts as the superior for all government administration workers (heading the public service... The Republic of Poland, a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north. ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aleksander KwaÅ›niewski ( ; born November 15, 1954) is a Polish politician who served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Marek Belka (pronounce: [marÎµk bÎµlka]) (b. ... JarosÅ‚aw Kalinowski (born April 12, 1962 in WyszkÃ³w) is a Polish politician. ... Jerzy Hausner (1949-present) is a Polish politician and economist. ... Professor Jerzy Buzek (born 3 July 1940 in ÅšmiÅ‚owice, then Germany, now Smilovice, Czech Republic) is a Polish academic lecturer and politician, prime minister of Poland from 1997-2001 and today a Member of European Parliament, elected 13th June, 2004 with the record number of votes in whole Poland. ... Marek Belka (pronounce: [marÎµk bÎµlka]) (b. ... The Sejm building in Warsaw. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Neo-gothic church in Å»yrardÃ³w Å»yrardÃ³w is a town in central Poland with 31,900 inhabitants (2004). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Poland. ... Capital Warsaw Language(s) Polish Government Socialist republic Leaders - 1948â€“1956 BolesÅ‚aw Bierut (First) - 1981-1989 Wojciech Jaruzelski (Last) Prime minister - 1944-1947 E. OsÃ³bka-Morawski - 1947-1952 and 1954-1970 JÃ³zef Cyrankiewicz - 1952-1954 BolesÅ‚aw Bierut - 1970-1980 Piotr Jaroszewicz - 1980 Edward Babiuch - 1980-1981... Democratic Left Alliance (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD) is a Polish social democratic political party. ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the â€œInternational Phonetic Alphabetâ€. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Neo-gothic church in Å»yrardÃ³w Å»yrardÃ³w is a town in central Poland with 31,900 inhabitants (2004). ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ...

Childhood and youth

Leszek Miller comes from a poor, working-class family: His father was a tailor and his mother a needlewoman. His parents broke up when Leszek was six months old; his father, Florian, left the family and Leszek has never maintained any contact with him. His mother brought him up in a religious spirit – following her wish, he was even, for some time, an altar-boy. Due to hard life conditions, after graduation from vocational school, 17-year-old Leszek got a job in the Textile Linen Plant in Żyrardów, while continuing his education in the evenings at the Vocational Secondary School of Electric Power Engineering. He soon completed his military service on the ORP Bielik submarine.

Career in the People’s Republic of Poland

Leszek Miller started his political career as an activist of the Socialist Youth Union, where he held the position of Chairman of the Plant Board, soon becoming a member of the Town Committee. After the military service, in 1969, he joined the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). The Polish United Workers Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in communist_ruled Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regimes electoral...

In 1973-1974, Leszek Miller was the Secretary of the PZPR Plant Committee. With granted Party’s recommendation, he started political sciences studies at the Party’s Higher School of Political Sciences (Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych), graduating in 1977. After graduation, Leszek Miller worked at the PZPR Central Committee, supervising the Group, and later on the Department of Youth, Physical Education and Tourism. In July 1986, Leszek Miller was elected the 1st Secretary of the PZPR Provincial Committee in Skierniewice. In December 1988, he returned to Warsaw, due to his promotion to the position of the Secretary of the PZPR Central Committee. As a representative of the government side, he took part in the session of the historic “Round Table”, where, together with Andrzej Celiński, he co-chaired the sub-team for youth issues (the only one that closed the session without signing the agreement). In 1989, he became member of the PZPR Political Bureau. Skierniewice - a town in central Poland with 47,900 inhabitants (1995). ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ...

The Third Republic of Poland

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a cofounder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic (till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party). In December 1999, at the Founding Congress of the Alliance of the Democratic Left (SLD), he was elected its Chairman, holding the function continuously till February 2004. In 1997-2001 he was the Chairman of the SLD’s caucus. Democratic Left Alliance (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD) is one of the main Polish social democratic political parties. ...

In 1989, he ran unsuccessfully for Senate as a representative of the Skierniewice Province. In subsequent elections (1991), Leszek Miller was a leader on the election list of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic in Łódź and, following a considerable success in elections, he won a seat in the Sejm, becoming Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic. In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes (from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005. The Sejm building in Warsaw. ...

Through all that time he remained one of the leading politicians on the left wing. In early 90’s, together with Mieczysław Rakowski, he was suspected in the case of the, so-called, “Moscow loan”. After revealing that affair in 1991, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz called Miller to abstain from taking an MP’s oath due to accusations laid against him. When Leszek Miller got cleared of the charges, Prime Minister Cimoszewicz appointed him later as the Minister in Charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers and in 1997 the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration in his government. In turn, Cimoszewicz became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Leszek Miller’s cabinet. In 1993-1996, Miller was the Minister of Labour and Social Policy in the governments of Waldemar Pawlak and Józef Oleksy respectively. In 1996, he was nominated as Senior Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers. He then got the nickname “The Chancellor”. MieczysÅ‚aw Rakowski (born December 1, 1926) is a comunist historian and journalist. ... WÅ‚odzimierz Cimoszewicz (born September 13, 1950 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish politician, the Prime Minister of Poland from 1996 to autumn 1997, the Foreign Minister of Poland in the governments of Leszek Miller (2001-2004) and Marek Belka (2004-2005) , and speaker of the Sejm (lower chamber of... Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (Polish: ) is an administration structure contrilling main administration and security branches of the Polish government. ... Waldemar Pawlak (born 5 September 1959), twice served as Prime Minister of Poland (the first time in June 1992, he failed to form a cabinet). ... JÃ³zef Oleksy JÃ³zef Oleksy (born 22 June 1946 in Nowy SÄ…cz) is a Polish politician, chairman of Democratic Left Alliance (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej). ...

Leszek Miller played an important role in concluding the case of Colonel Ryszard Kukliński. He was severely criticised for that within his political circle. A similar disapproval was expressed after Miller’s support for the Concordat and the candidature of Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz to the position of President of the National Bank of Poland. Ryszard Jerzy KukliÅ„ski (June 13, 1930 â€“ February 11, 2004) was a Polish-born colonel and Cold War masterspy, who passed top secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA between years 1971 and 1981. ... Leszek Balcerowicz (pronounced: [lÎµÊƒÎµk balÊ¦ÎµrÉ”viÊ§]) (born January 19, 1947) is an economist from Poland and Chairman of the National Bank of Poland. ...

During the period of the Solidarity Electoral Action’s government, Leszek Miller was in charge of the parliamentary opposition, leading the political fight with the governing party. He was also consolidating the majority of significant left-wing groups around his person. In 1999, he succeeded in establishing one uniform political party – the Democratic Left Alliance – which turned out to be very successful in forthcoming elections.

Prime Minister

Following the sweeping victory of the Left (41% vs. 12% of the subsequent party) in the Parliamentary Election in 2001, on October 19, 2001, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski appointed Miller the Prime Minister and obliged to nominate the government. The new government won the parliamentary vote of confidence on October 26, 2001 (306:140 votes with one abstention). The 16-person cabinet of Prime Minister Miller has been the least numerous government of the Polish Republic so far. is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Aleksander KwaÅ›niewski ( ; born November 15, 1954) is a Polish politician who served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. ... is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Leszek Miller’s predecessor has burdened him with difficult economic situation of the country, including more than 18 % unemployment rate, high level of public debt, and economic stagnation. At the end of Miller’s government term, a high (over 6 %) economic growth was recorded; still, it was too slow to reduce unemployment rate. During his term, the unpopular program of cuts in public expenses was implemented, together with a hardly successful reform of health care financing. The reforms of the tax system and of the Social Insurance Institution were continued, and the attempt to settle the mass-media market failed. Taxes were significantly lowered – to 19 % for companies and for persons running business activity – and the act of freedom in business activity was voted through. A radical, structural reform of secret services was implemented (the State Security Office was dissolved and replaced by the Internal Security Agency and the Intelligence Agency).

Simultaneously, institutional and legal adjustments were continued, resulting from the accession to the European Union. The Accession conditions were negotiated, being the main strategic goal of Miller’s cabinet. On December 13th 2002, at the summit in Copenhagen (Denmark), Prime Minister Leszek Miller completed the negotiations with the European Union. On April 16, 2003 in Athens, Miller, together with Cimoszewicz, signed the Accession Treaty, bringing Poland into the European Union. Miller’s government, in collaboration with various political and social forces, organized the accession referendum with a successful outcome. On June 7th and 8th 2003, 77.45% of the referendum participants voted in favor of Poland’s accession to the European Union. The referendum turn-out reached 58.85%. Copenhagen (IPA: or ; Danish: IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city. ... is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Leszek Miller’s government, together with President Kwaśniewski, made a decision (March 2003) to join the anti-terrorist coalition and deploy Polish troops to Iraq, within an international campaign, targeting at overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s government. Miller was also a co-signatory of “the letter of 8”, signed by eight European prime ministers, supporting the US position on Iraq. On the 4th December 2003, Leszek Miller suffered injuries in a Mi-8 helicopter crash near Warsaw.

At the end of its term of office, Leszek Miller’s government noted the lowest social support of all the governments since 1989. It was mainly caused by the continuing high unemployment rate, corruption scandals, with Rywingate on top, and by the attempt of fulfilling the plan of reducing social spending (the Hausner’s plan). In result of criticism in his own party, the Democratic Left Alliance, in February 2004, Leszek Miller resigned from chairing the party. Miller was criticized for an excessively liberal approach and for stressing the role of free market mechanisms in economy. He was reproached for his acceptance of a flat tax, which ran counter to the left-wing doctrine. He was also identified with the “chieftain-like style” of leadership. On March 26th 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Polish Social Democracy, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on May 2nd 2004, a day after Poland’s accession to the EU. On May 1st 2004, together with President Kwaśniewski, he was in Dublin, taking part in the Grand Ceremony of accession of 10 states, including Poland, to the European Union. Lew Rywin (born November 10, 1945 in a Siberian village) is a Polish film producer associated with Heritage Films (est. ... Marek Stefan Borowski (b. ... 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). ...

In political vacuum

In 2005, Leszek Miller, despite the support of the Łódź Branch of the Democratic Left Alliance, was not registered on the election list to the Parliament. At the same time, he was offered to run for Senate but refused. Retirement of the old activists was presented in media as “inflow of new blood into the Democratic Left Alliance”. After the election, Leszek Miller became active in journalism, writing mainly for the “Wprost” weekly on liberal economic concepts and current political issues. In the first half of 2005, he stayed at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., implementing a research project: “Status of the new Poland in the Eastern Europe’s space”.

Private life

In 1969, Miller married in church a three year younger Aleksandra. The Millers have a son, Leszek, and a granddaughter, Monika.

Witty remarks

Miller is known for his inclination to witty remarks. He once described his political partner, Aleksandra Jakubowska as "a brave heart in a shapely breast ". Another tag, "it’s not important how a man begins, it’s important how he finishes" stated with regards to a journalist’s question why he had decided to stay in the government after Prime Minister Pawlak left, being later replaced by Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, with whom he was on hardly good terms at that time, was very often referred to at the beginning of 2004 in various evaluations of Leszek Miller’s accomplishments as Prime Minister. The sentence: "The Kaczynski brothers are not only from the same party but from the same egg" was voted by the internauts of the Wirtualna Polska portal as the Statement of the Year 2005. Wirtualna Polska (Virtual Poland) is the second-largest Polish web portal (after Onet. ...

Trivia

Leszek Miller was the archetype for the character of Ludwik M. in the play “Citizen M. – A History" by Maciej Kowalewski, staged by the Helena Modrzejewska Theatre in Legnica in 2002-2004. He was Man of the Year 2001 and 2002, according to the ranking of the "Wprost" weekly. Beside this, he has been winner of Television „Victor Awards” as well as of many other awards. In 1996, Leszek Miller was awarded the title of the Knight of the Order of Smile. Helena Modjeska Helena Modjeska (1840-1909) was an internationally-famous Polish actress who later moved to the United States. ... Legnica ( , formerly Lignica; German: ) is a town in Silesia in southwestern Poland. ...

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