Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz | |
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.jpg) Sienkiewicz in 2024 | |
| Minister of Culture and National Heritage | |
| In office 13 December 2023 – 13 May 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
| Preceded by | Dominika Chorosińska |
| Succeeded by | Hanna Wróblewska |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 25 February 2013 – 22 September 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Donald Tusk |
| Preceded by | Jacek Cichocki |
| Succeeded by | Teresa Piotrowska |
| Member of the European Parliament forPoland | |
| Assumed office 13 July 2024 (2024-07-13) | |
| Constituency | 10 – Lesser Poland & Świętokrzyskie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-07-29)29 July 1961 (age 64) |
| Political party | Civic Platform |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (Polish pronunciation:[/bartwɔˈmʲɛjɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; born 29 July 1961) is aPolish politician who served asMinister of the Interior in the government ofPrime MinisterDonald Tusk from 25 February 2013 to 22 September 2014. From 13 December 2023 to 13 May 2024, Sienkiewicz has served asMinister of Culture and National Heritage in thethird cabinet of Donald Tusk.
Sienkiewicz was born on 29 July 1961.[1] He is the great-grandson of Nobel Prize–winning authorHenryk Sienkiewicz.[2] Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is a graduate ofJagiellonian University.[3]
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, athink-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]
On 25 February 2013, Sienkiewicz was appointed byPresidentBronisław Komorowski as Minister of the Interior to thecabinet led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.[5][6] Sienkiewicz replacedJacek 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 withMarek Belka, governor of the National Bank of Poland, during which they discussed in a Warsaw restaurant a possible change of the Minister of Finance;[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 amotion 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 newPresident of the European Council and did not enter the new cabinet headed byEwa Kopacz.
In the2019 elections, Sienkiewicz won a seat in theNinth 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.
Sienkiewicz was again elected to the Parliament in thegeneral election on 15 October 2023.[12]
He was appointed Minister of Culture and National Heritage on 13 December 2023 to the cabinet led by Donald Tusk.[13] On 19 December 2023, he illegally dismissed the directors ofTVP,Polish Radio andPAP, leading to the2023 takeover of TVP.[14]
The move was met with criticism and accusations of illegality by the dismissed management and the oppositionLaw and Justice party, causing a parliamentary intervention in the TVP headquarters.[15][16]
On 25 April 2024, Sienkiewicz resigned from the ministry and announced his candidacy for theEuropean Parliament in elections to be held on 9 June, waiting for the president to have accepted his resignation.[17]
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Sienkiewicz is married and has four children.
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