Waldemar Pawlak (born September 5, 1959), twice the Prime Minister of Poland (the first time in June 1992, he failed to form a cabinet). In 1993, he was nominated for the post by President Lech Walesa, but received little support from the president. In early 1995, Walesa threatened to dissolve parliament if the Pawlak government was not replaced. Pawlak resigned on March 1, 1995 and was replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.

He was elected President of the PSL party in 1991, and was the leader of PSL in Polish Parliament Seym I and II.

In 1995 presidential election that brought A. Kwasniewski to the office, Pawlak got 4.31% of the vote (behind Walesa, Kuron and Olszewski).

He made headlines when he chose Miss Polonia Ewa Wachowicz as his press secretary.

He has a 17 ha farm in Kamionka in Plockie province. He is active in voluntary fire brigade service as well as in business.

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Members of Pawlak cabinet:

• Prime Minister: Waldemar Pawlak (PSL)
• Deputy PM and Minister of Finance: Marek Borowski (SLD)
• Deputy PM and Minister of Justice: Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (SLD)
• Deputy PM and Minister of Education: Aleksander Luczak (PSL)
• Minister of Construction: Barbara Bilda (SLD)
• Minister of Culture: Kazimierz Dejmek (PSL)
• Minister of Property Conversion: Wieslaw Kaczmarek (SLD)
• Minister of Defense: Piotr Kolodziejczyk
• Minister of Transportation: Boguslaw Liberadzki (SLD)
• Minister of Interior: Andrzej Milczanowski
• Minister of Labor: Leszek Miller (SLD)
• Minister of Foreign Affairs: Andrzej Olechowski
• Director of the CUP (Central Planning Office): Miroslaw Pietrewicz (PSL)
• Minister of Economic Cooperation with Foreign Business: Leslaw Podkanski (PSL)
• Minister of Industry and Trade: Marek Pol (UP)
• Director of the URM (the Cabinet Office): Michal Strak (PSL)
• Minister of Agriculture: Andrzej Smietanko (PSL)
• Minister of Communications: Andrzej Zielinski (PSL)
• Minister of Environment Preservation: Andrzej Zelichowski (SLD)
• Minister of Health: Ryszard Zochowski (SLD)
• President of the Committee for Scientific Research: Witold Karczewski

	Prime Ministers of Poland
Kingdom of Poland (1916 - 1918)	Jan Kucharzewski | Jan Kanty Steczkowski | Józef Świeżyński
2nd Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939)	Ignacy Daszyński | Jędrzej Moraczewski | Ignacy Paderewski | Leopold Skulski | Władysław Grabski | Wincenty Witos | Antoni Ponikowski | Artur Śliwiński | Julian Nowak | Władysław Sikorski | Aleksander Skrzyński | Kazimierz Bartel | Józef Piłsudski | Kazimierz Świtalski | Walery Sławek | Aleksander Prystor | Janusz Jędrzejewicz | Leon Kozłowski | Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski | Felicjan Sławoj-Składkowski
Government in Exile (1939 - 1990)	Władysław Sikorski | Stanisław Mikołajczyk | Tomasz Arciszewski | Tadeusz Komorowski | Tadeusz Tomaszewski | Roman Odzierzyński | Jerzy Hryniewski | Stanisław Mackiewicz | Hugon Hanke | Antoni Pająk | Aleksander Zawisza | Zygmunt Muchniewski | Alfred Urbański | Kazimierz Sabbat | Edward Szczepanik
People's Republic of Poland (1944 - 1989)	Edward Osóbka-Morawski | Józef Cyrankiewicz | Bolesław Bierut | Piotr Jaroszewicz | Edward Babiuch | Józef Pińkowski | Wojciech Jaruzelski | Zbigniew Messner | Mieczysław Rakowski | Czesław Kiszczak
3rd Republic of Poland (since 1989)	Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Jan Krzysztof Bielecki | Jan Olszewski | Waldemar Pawlak | Hanna Suchocka | Józef Oleksy | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Jerzy Buzek | Leszek Miller | Marek Belka