Mariusz Błaszczak
Mariusz Błaszczak | |
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Official portrait, 2015 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |
| In office 22 June 2022 – 21 June 2023 Serving with Henryk Kowalczyk | |
| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Preceded by | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Succeeded by | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Minister of National Defence | |
| In office 9 January 2018 – 13 December 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Preceded by | Antoni Macierewicz |
| Succeeded by | Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz |
| Minister of the Interior and Administration | |
| In office 16 November 2015 – 9 January 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | |
| Succeeded by | Joachim Brudziński |
| Parliamentary leader of Law and Justice | |
| Assumed office 13 November 2023 | |
| In office 3 August 2010 – 11 November 2015 | |
| Member of the Sejm | |
| Assumed office 5 November 2007 | |
| Constituency | No. 20 (Warsaw II) |
| Minister without portfolio | |
| In office 27 March 2007 – 16 November 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Chief of the Prime Minister's Chancellery | |
| In office 31 October 2005 – 16 November 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Deputy | Piotr Tutak |
| Preceded by | Sławomir Cytrycki |
| Succeeded by | Tomasz Arabski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 September 1969 Legionowo, Poland |
| Party | Law and Justice |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
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Mariusz Błaszczak (born 19 September 1969) is a Polish politician, historian, civil servant, and local government representative. A prominent member of the Law and Justice party, he has served continuously as a member of the Sejm since 2007 and held various government positions during the party's terms in power, from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2023.
Błaszczak was Minister of National Defence from 2018 to 2023 and Minister of the Interior and Administration from 2015 to 2018. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister between 2022 and 2023. In the earlier Law and Justice government, he was Chief of the Prime Minister's Chancellery from 2005 to 2007 and briefly minister without portfolio in 2007. He has served as parliamentary leader of Law and Justice since 2023, having previously held the role from 2010 to 2015.