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Leszek Miller
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Image:Leszek_Miller.jpg thumb|right|Leszek Miller
'''Leszek Miller''' (born
3 July 1946) was
Prime Minister of
Poland from
September 2001 to
May 2,
2004.
Miller was born in
Żyrardów in central Poland. He joined the ruling
Polish United Workers' Party party in
1969. Until
1970 he worked as an electrician in a linen textile factory in
Żyrardów. In
1977 he graduated from a ''Higher School of Political Sciences'' (
Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych). From to
1977-
1982 he worked in the Regional Committee of PUWP in
Skierniewice. In
1988 he became secretary of PUWP at voivodship level, and the following year he was briefly a member of the party's
Politburo.
After the dissolution of the communist party, from
1989 to
1993 Miller was secretary-general of
SdRP. He became a member of the
Sejm in
1991. He was Minister of Labor in
Waldemar Pawlak's government, and Minister of Internal Affairs in the governments of
Jozef Oleksy and
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz. He became
Alliance of the Democratic Left SLD party leader in
December 1999 and served in this position until
March 2004. He became Prime Minister of
Poland in
September 2001. On
March 26,
2004, he announced his resignation as prime minister, effective
May 2 (the day after Poland became a member of
European Union).
His government encountered problems and unpopularity because of high unemployment, possible spending cuts, corruption scandals (most notably the
Lew Rywin affair), and Miller's support for U.S. president
George W. Bush, particularly the American-led
2003 invasion of Iraq war against Iraq in
2003.
In April 2004, Miller's former treasury minister
Wiesław Kaczmarek (now in a splinter socialist party called
Socjaldemokracja Polska) accused him of illegally using counter-intelligence services for political reasons. Those allegations are currently being investigated by a special House Inquiry Commission (
PKN Orlen investigation commission). Miller's government involved Polish troops in the invasion and occupation of
Iraq. The government also completed the negotiations for Poland to join the
European Union.
Still a member of Polish Sejm - the lower house of the parliament. In the spring of 2005, he took a leave from Sejm to work on a paper at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
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Category:1946 births Miller, Leszek
Category:Living people Miller, Leszek
Category:Prime Ministers of Poland Miller, Leszek
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