Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski
Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski (IPA: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf tɕfjɔŋˈkalskʲi] (listen); born March 9, 1950 in Łańcut) is a Polish politician, former Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General of Poland. He is a qualified lawyer, adwokat, and associate professor of law at the Jagiellonian University (Chair of Penal Law, Faculty of Law and Administration).
From 1972 to 1981 he was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party at Jagiellonian University. In 1981 he joined the Polish opposition (the Solidarity trade union).
In 1985 he was accused of being a secret collaborator of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa,[1] but there was no evidence of this.
From 2007 to 2009 he was the Minister of Justice in the government of Donald Tusk.
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