Editing Janusz Lewandowski (section)

== Political career ==
From 1980 to 1989 he was an economics adviser to the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] anti-communist movement, and in 1988 he was one of the founders of the [[Liberal Democratic Congress]]. He was the Minister of Privatization in the cabinets of [[Jan Krzysztof Bielecki]] (1990–1991) and [[Hanna Suchocka]] (1992–1993). His major successes were the foundation of the [[Warsaw Stock Exchange]] and the mass privatization programme (Program Powszechnej Prywatyzacji).

He lost his parliamentary seat in the [[1993 Polish parliamentary election|1993 elections]] and worked as an international expert from 1994 to 1997. After the merger of KLD and [[Democratic Union (Poland)|Democratic Union]] in 1994 he became a member of [[Freedom Union (Poland)|Freedom Union]] (UW), and in 1997 member of [[Sejm]] representing UW. Together with [[Donald Tusk]] and other liberals he seceded from UW to form [[Civic Platform]], and was elected an MP again in 2001. Since 2003 he was an observer in the [[European Parliament]].

In the [[2004 European Parliament election in Poland|2004 European Parliament election]] he was a candidate of [[Civic Platform]] in constituency #1 [[Pomeranian Voivodship]] and received 79,879 votes (=20.17%, the best result in the region). On 23 July 2004 he was elected chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Budgets.

[[Andris Piebalgs]] was twice Acting Commissioner in his stead, from 19 April 2014 – 25 May 2014 while he was on electoral campaign leave for the [[2014 European Parliament election in Poland|2014 European Parliament election]] from 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2014 after he took up his seat.<ref>[http://euobserver.com/news/123733 EU Observer – Six Commissioners Head for EU Election Campaign Trail]</ref><ref>[http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2385629&language=en KUNA – Barroso announces caretaker replacements following resignation of 4 EU Commissioners]</ref>

Lewandowski was re-elected for the 8th term (2014–2019) of the European Parliament, as a member of the EPP group.

He was re-elected for the 9th term (2019–2024) of the European Parliament and was chosen as the 1st Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on Budgets.