Janusz Teofil Tomaszewski () (born 13 September 1956 in

Pabianice Pabianice is a city in central Poland with 63,023 inhabitants (2021). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the capital of Pabianice County. It lies about southwest of Łódź and belongs to the metropolitan area of that city. It is the thi ...

) is a Polish politician. A

Solidarity Solidarity or solidarism is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. True solidarity means moving beyond individual identities and single issue politics ...

activist, member of

Solidarity Electoral Action Solidarity Electoral Action (, AWS) was a coalition of political parties in Poland, active from 1996 to 2001. AWS was the political arm of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity trade union, whose leader Lech Wałęsa (also an AWS member ...

. He was a vice-prime minister and

Minister of Internal Affairs An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

from 31 October 1997 to 3 September 1999. He was forced to resign his official position due to

lustration Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe is the official public procedure of scrutinizing a public official or a candidate for public office in terms of their history as a witting confidential collaborator (informant) of relevant former commun ...

controversy (he was cleared of all suspicions in 2001). In 2004 he joined the Party Centrum.

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1956 births Living people Deputy prime ministers of Poland Interior ministers of Poland Solidarity Electoral Action politicians Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists People from Pabianice {{Poland-politician-stub