Editing Jan Olszewski (section)

===Dismissal===
By late May, Olszewski's fragile coalition faced collapse. Shortly after returning from [[Moscow]] from signing the cooperation treaty on 26 May 1992, Wałęsa formally asked the [[Sejm]] to withdraw its support from Olszewski's premiership, stating he had no faith in the government.<ref name=Jeffries504>[[#CITEREFJeffries1993|Jeffries]], p. 504</ref> The president cited the government's "irresponsible steps in foreign affairs" as part of his decision.<ref name=Gorska59>[[#CITEREFGorska2000|Gorska]], p. 59</ref> Two days later on 28 May, with half of parliament's members absent, Sejm member [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]] of the small conservative-libertarian [[Real Politics Union]] successfully pressed for and passed a motion requiring the [[Ministry of Interior (Poland)|Ministry of Interior]] to identify all of the republic's leading politicians who collaborated previously in the communist secret services. Despite the resolution, opposition parties, including the [[Democratic Union (Poland)|Democratic Union]], the [[Liberal Democratic Congress]] and the Polish Economic Program (a split faction of the [[Polish Beer-Lovers' Party]]), moved to file a [[vote of no confidence]]. Responding to the [[lustration in Poland|lustration]] resolution six days later on 4 June, Interior Minister [[Antoni Macierewicz]] released to all parliamentary faction heads a secret list of 64 names of communist-era collaborators drawn from his ministry's archives.<ref name=Millard58/> 

Known as the Macierewicz List, which was quickly leaked to the public, the roster included [[Wiesław Chrzanowski]], the [[Marshal of the Sejm]] and a member of Olszewski's coalition as well as [[Leszek Moczulski]], the head of the opposition [[Confederation of Independent Poland]]. A second list published shortly afterwards included President Wałęsa himself.<ref name=Millard58/> In response, Wałęsa immediately demanded for the government's dismissal, yet in private, the president confessed to opposition legislators his worries that Olszewski was orchestrating a last minute [[coup]] against him.<ref name=Millard59>[[#Millard|Millard]], p. 59</ref> Late on the night of 4 June, on the eve of his vote of confidence, Olszewski made an unplanned televised address on public broadcasters [[TVP1]] and [[TVP2|2]], defending his administration's [[lustration]] list and appealing for the public to rally behind the government:<ref name=Margraf>{{cite web|last=Margraf|first=Monika|title="Noc teczek": jak do niej doszło i co robili główni gracze?|url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/56,114884,11846594,Jan_Olszewski____prototyp__Kaczynskiego,,1.html|publisher=[[Gazeta.pl]]|access-date=4 June 2012}}</ref>  <blockquote>My government was the first to want to reveal old, secret relationships of individuals who recently volunteered to enter into the state's new administration. I believe that the Polish people should know those who govern them, including those who helped the [[Ministry of Public Security (Poland)|UB]] and [[Służba Bezpieczeństwa|SB]] to keep Poles enslaved. I believe the collaborators of the former communist political police constitute a threat to the security of the free Polish people. The people should know that not coincidentally, just at the moment when we can finally break away from communist ties, there is a sudden move for the government's dismissal.<ref name=Margraf/></blockquote>

In the early hours after midnight on 5 June, in an event known as the ''nocna zmiana'' ("the nightshift"), the Sejm convened for a [[vote of no confidence]]. Despite Olszewski's public appeals both on television and within the debating chamber, parliament's majority opinion became readily apparent of supporting his dismissal. Aside from the opposition post-communist [[Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)|Democratic Left Alliance]], members of the [[Tadeusz Mazowiecki]]-oriented Democratic Union, the [[Liberal Democratic Congress|Liberal Democrats]], and other centrist and liberal parties remained unfazed with their loss of confidence with the prime minister. The opposition was joined from the right by the Confederation of Independent Poland, whose members derided the Olszewski government's attempt at radical lustration just before a vote of confidence as outright [[blackmail]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orka2.sejm.gov.pl/Debata1.nsf/9a905bcb5531f478c125745f0037938e/37310d065ba95b7ec125750700452d56?OpenDocument|author=Adam Słomka|publisher=[[Sejm]]|title=9. Wniosek prezesa Rady Ministrów o odwołanie Andrzeja Olechowskiego ze stanowiska ministra finansów. 10. Poselski wniosek o odwołanie Rady Ministrów (druk nr 310). 11. Wniosek prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej o natychmiastowe odwołanie Jana Olszewskiego ze stanowiska prezesa Rady Ministrów.|access-date=14 November 2013|date=4 June 1992}}</ref> Facing certain defeat, an emotional Olszewski addressed the Sejm, stating:<blockquote>''"I would like to get out of this place with just one achievement. And as of this moment, I have the belief that I will go out with it. I would like to say when this period finishes when time runs out for me—I admit—a terribly painful time, when in my hometown's streets, I can only move about by car or in the company of guards protecting me from human contact—when my time does finally finish—I can take to the streets of my city freely again, to move about and look people in the eye. And that for you, honourable members is what I wish for after this vote."''
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The vote of no confidence was approved, with 273 in favour and 119 against. Olszewski was immediately replaced by Wałęsa ally [[Waldemar Pawlak]] of the [[Polish People's Party]].<ref name=Simon/> Pawlak's government failed to gain support from Sejm majority and failed in a vote of confidence. Pawlak later resigned and Wałęsa replaced him by [[Hanna Suchocka]], who won support from the majority. Two weeks following the government's no-confidence vote, the [[Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland|Constitutional Tribunal]] ruled 11–1 the Sejm's 28 May lustration resolution singling out alleged communist collaborators as illegal due to it not being a statutory enactment, as well as violating both the dignity of citizens and democratic values.<ref name=Schwartz68>[[#CITEREFSchwartz2000|Schwartz]], p. 68</ref> The list produced by former Interior Minister Macierewicz was similarly found to be filled with inaccuracies, forcing the ministry to later apologize to several of those falsely implicated.<ref name=Schwartz68/>