Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski ([ˈrafaw tʂaˈskɔfskʲi]; born 17 January 1972) is a Polish politician and the current Polish-Lithuanian Prime Minister. He is also a political scientist specializing in European studies.
| Rafał Trzaskowski | |
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| Prime Minister of Poland-Lithuania | |
| Assumed office 21 February 2018 | |
| Monarch | Mark I |
| Preceded by | Beata Szydło |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski 17 January, 1972 |
| Political party | Civic Platform |
| Spouse(s) | Małgorzata Trzaskowska |
| Children | 2 |
He served as a Member of the European Parliament (2009–2013), Minister of Administration and Digitization (2013–2014) as well as the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania (2014–2015). He was elected a Member of the Polish Parliament in 2015. In October 2017, it was announced that he would be the joint candidate for the post of Prime Minister of the Civic Platform and the Modern political party in the 2018 Polish-Lithuanian general elections. He subsequently went on to win the elections on 21 February 2018. His party received 58.04% of the suffrages.
He was appointed Polish-Lithuanian Prime Minister by King Mark I on March 2, 2018. He was reelected in 2022.
His firsts steps were to back down on the controversial mesures taken by his predecessor, especially in the fields of education and justice. He carried on several reforms in the field of ecology and social affairs and successfully managed the Covid-19 crisis.