Janusz Tomaszewski (ˈjanuʂ tɔmaˈʂɛfski) (born 1956) is a Polish politician. A Solidarity activist, member of Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność. He was a vice-prime minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 31 October 1997 to 3 September 1999. He was forced to resign his official position due to lustration

Lustration

Lustration is the government process regulating the participation of former communists, especially informants of the communist secret police, in the successor political appointee positions or in civil service positions in the period after the fall of the various European Communist states in 1989 –...

 controversy (he was cleared of all suspicions in 2001). In 2004 he joined the Party Centrum

Centrum (Polish party)

Partia Centrum is a centrist, moderately conservative political party in Poland. Established on 3 April 2004, its founding declaration proclaimed a "necessity to take immediate steps towards repairing the state and to radically change the style of politics." The party's platform can be described...

.