Antoni Macierewicz

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Antoni Macierewicz (born 3 August 1948 in Warsaw) is a Polish right wing politician, vice-minister of national defence in Jarosław Kaczyński government. Former member of Sejm (lower house of Polish parliament), and chairman of the Catholic-National Movement party. In the years 1968-1989 he was a prominent member of the democratic opposition to communist rule, one of the founders of the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR).

He was Minister of Internal Affairs in Jan Olszewski Government (1991-1992).

From July 2006, he was the lead liquidator of the Polish Military Information Services, while from October 2006 he has been the chief of the new restructured military counterintelligence service.

In recent years, as a politician, he has presented a strongly right-wing and anti-liberal attitude.

As the radical nationalist, he is not a supporter of Polish presence in the European Union