Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz

Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (born 29 July 1961) is a Polish politician who served as the minister of the interior in the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk from 25 February 2013 to 22 September 2014.

Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz
Minister of Interior
In office
25 February 2013 – 22 September 2014
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byJacek Cichocki
Succeeded byTeresa Piotrowska
Personal details
Born (1961-07-29) 29 July 1961
Kielce, Poland
Political partyAffiliated with Civic Platform
ChildrenFour
Alma materJagiellonian University

Early life and education

Sienkiewicz was born on 29 July 1961.[1] He is the great-grandson of Nobel Prize–winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz.[2] Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is a graduate of Jagiellonian University.[3]

Early life and career

Sienkiewicz participated in Cracow’s opposition movement in the early 1980s.[3] In 1990, he co-established the Office for State Protection and the Centre for Eastern Studies, a think-tank organization.[1][4] He served as the deputy director of the center for eight years, specifically from 1991 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2001.

In the early 2000s, Sienkiewicz left the state administration and began to work in private sector, founding a firm on the investment risk and analysis of the competitive environment (ASBS Othago, then "Sienkiewicz and Partners").[3]

Political career

Minister of the Interior, 2013–2014

On 25 February 2013, Sienkiewicz was appointed by President Bronisław Komorowski as interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.[5][6] Sienkiewicz replaced Jacek Cichocki in the post.[2]

Sienkiewicz was one of the politicians at the centre of the tape scandal that occurred in Poland in the summer of 2014 when many of the key figures of the Polish political scene were covertly recorded in private.[7] He was recorded during a conversation with Marek Belka, governor of the National Bank of Poland, during which they discussed in a Warsaw restaurant a possible change of the finance minister;[8] Belka and Sienkiewicz later said their words were taken out of context and they denied doing anything illegal.[9] In July 2014, the Polish parliament rejected a motion of no confidence in Sienkiewicz.[10] However, the district prosecutor’s office in Warsaw launched an investigation in August 2014 to establish if Belka and Sienkiewicz had exceeded their authority.[11]

Sienkiewicz resigned along with the entire government following the election of Donald Tusk as the new President of the European Council and did not enter the new cabinet headed by Ewa Kopacz.

Later career

In the 2019 elections, Sienkiewicz won a seat in the Ninth Sejm, having run as the leader of the Civic Platform list in the Kielce district and receiving 35,009 votes. After the elections, he joined the PO and in January 2020 filed his candidacy for party chairman. As a result of the vote in the same month, he came in last place among the four candidates.

Personal life

Sienkiewicz is married and has four children.

References
  1. "Prime Minister: Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is the new Head of the Ministry of Interior". Premier. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  2. "PM takes on conservative wing". New Poland Express. 22 February 2013. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. "Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz nominated for the head of MI". Ministry of Interior. 4 March 2013. Archived from the original (News release) on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  4. "Rostowski appointed deputy prime minister". Warsaw Business Journal. 25 February 201. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  5. "New interior minister appointed". The Warsaw Voice. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  6. "Polish PM announces new head of PM's chancellery, interior minister". China (Xinhua). 21 February 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  7. ""Wprost" ujawnia pierwszą z kompromitujących taśm". Wprost. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  8. "Calls for government to resign amid finance tape scandal". The News. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  9. Marcin Goettig and Pawel Sobczak (19 June 2014), Polish PM under fire in leaked tape row, hints at snap election Reuters.
  10. Anna Koper (11 July 2014), Polish parliament rejects no confidence motion in interior minister Reuters.
  11. Marcin Goettig (16 September 2014), Poland drops probe into central bank chief's leaked conversation Reuters.
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