Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska

In 2004, Kluzik-Rostkowska entered Warsaw's municipal bureaucracy, becoming chief specialist of the mayor's press office.^[5] Kaczyński, now elected as Mayor of Warsaw, later appointed Kluzik-Rostkowska as head of the mayor's outreach department for women and families.^[5] As a member of Law and Justice, Kluzik-Rostkowska ran for a seat in the Sejm during the 2005 parliamentary election, but failed to be elected.^[5] Nevertheless, Kluzik-Rostkowska joined the government of incoming Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who made her deputy head of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy.^[5] Before joining the ministry, Kluzik-Rostkowska voiced support for in vitro fertilisation during a media interview, prompting one of the government's junior coalition partners, the League of Polish Families, to threaten the coalition of withdrawing its support.^[5] However, the League failed to block Kluzik-Rostkowska's nomination, who later became head of the ministry's commission on the equal status of men and women.^[5]

From August to November 2007, Kluzik-Rostkowska served as the Minister of Labour and Social Policy under the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński.^[5] Kluzik-Rostkowska replaced Minister Anna Kalata of Self-Defence during a cabinet reshuffle following Self-Defence's exit from the Law and Justice-led government.^[6] Despite the Kaczyński government's defeat in the 2007 parliamentary election, Kluzik-Rostkowska was elected to a seat in the Sejm.^[5]

In 2010, Kluzik-Rostkowska presided over Jarosław Kaczyński's campaign during the 2010 presidential election, called 'Poland Comes First'.^[1] A leading party moderate, she was ejected from Law and Justice after hinting of her candidacy for the party's leadership "if need be".^[7] Having left, she established Poland Comes First, a new political grouping with other Law and Justice dissidents including Sejm representatives Elżbieta Jakubiak and Paweł Poncyljusz, and MEPs Adam Bielan and Michał Kamiński.^[1][8]

She resigned from the party leadership on 5 June 2011,^[9] prompting rumors of her leaving the party altogether to join Civic Platform.^[10] Following her defection to Civic Platform's ranks, Kluzik-Rostkowska described her decision as to "do everything [to ensure] that Law and Justice do not return to power."^[5] She was reelected to the Sejm as a member of Civic Platform in the 2011 parliamentary election, representing Rybnik.^[5]

In November 2013, Kluzik-Rostkowska was appointed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk as the next Minister of National Education, replacing Krystyna Szumilas.^[4]

• Joanna Kluzik-Rostowska's webpage at the Sejm