Polish order of precedence
# English title Polish title Current office holders As of 16 November 2015
1 President of the Republic of Poland Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Andrzej Duda
2 Marshal of the Sejm ( Speaker of the lower house of parliament ) Marszałek Sejmu Elżbieta Witek
3 Marshal of the Senate ( Speaker of the upper house of parliament ) Marszałek Senatu Tomasz Grodzki
4 President of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) Prezes Rady Ministrów ( Premier ) Mateusz Morawiecki
5 Deputy Marshals of the Sejm ( Deputy speakers of the lower house of parliament ) Wicemarszałkowie Sejmu Ryszard Terlecki Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska Barbara Dolniak Małgorzata Gosiewska Stanisław Tyszka
6 Deputy Marshals of the Senate ( Deputy speakers of the upper house of parliament ) Wicemarszałkowie Senatu Michał Seweryński Bogdan Borusewicz Maria Koc Marek Pęk
7 Deputy Presidents of the Council of Ministers ( Deputy prime ministers ) Wiceprezesi Rady Ministrów ( Wicepremierzy ) Piotr Gliński ( Culture and National Heritage ) Jarosław Gowin ( Science and Higher Education ) Jacek Sasin
9 Ministers - members of the Council of Ministers Ministrowie - członkowie Rady Ministrów Krzysztof Tchórzewski ( Energy ) Bożena Borys-Szopa ( Labour and Social Policy ) Marian Banaś ( Finance ) Jacek Czaputowicz ( Foreign Affairs ) Henryk Kowalczyk ( Environment ) Andrzej Adamczyk ( Infrastructure ) Jerzy Kwieciński ( Investment and Economic Development ) Jan Ardanowski ( Agriculture and Rural Development ) Dariusz Piontkowski ( National Education ) Mariusz Kamiński ( Interior and Administration ) Marek Zagórski ( Digitization ) Marek Gróbarczyk ( Marine Economy and Inland Navigation ) Mariusz Błaszczak ( National Defence ) Zbigniew Ziobro ( Justice ) Łukasz Szumowski ( Health ) Jadwiga Emilewicz ( Enterpreneurship and Technology ) Witold Bańka ( Sport and Tourism ) Michał Woś
11 President of the Constitutional Tribunal Prezes Trybunału Konstytucyjnego Julia Przyłębska
12 First President of the Supreme Court ( Chief Justice ) Pierwszy Prezes Sądu Najwyższego Małgorzata Gersdorf
13 President of the Supreme Administrative Court Prezes Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego Marek Zirk-Sadowski
14 President of the Supreme Audit Office Prezes Najwyższej Izby Kontroli Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
15 Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection ( Ombudsman ) Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich Adam Bodnar
16 Presidents and chairpersons of national-level administrative offices and committees Prezesi i przewodniczący urzędów , komitetów i komisji sprawujących funkcje naczelnych lub centralnych organów administracji państwowej
17 Chairpersons of Sejm committees Przewodniczący komisji sejmowych
18 Chairpersons of Senate committees Przewodniczący komisji senackich
19 Members of Sejm Posłowie na Sejm
20 Senators Senatorowie
21 Secretaries of State Sekretarze Stanu
22 Chief of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Szef Kancelarii Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Małgorzata Sadurska
This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . ( August 2019 ) There is no official document specifying the order of precedence in Poland . In practice , the precedence of officials in Poland is based on an outdated informal instruction dating back to 1992 . Polish civil servants responsible for the protocol often need to make ad hoc decisions based on tradition , general rules of etiquette and common sense . [ 1 ] An official order of precedence existed during the Communist era , but it was rendered obsolete by the transition to democracy that started in 1989 . In 1992 , a new guideline was prepared by Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka , Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski , and Janusz Ziółkowski , the chief of the President 's chancellery . The new document , however , was never formally adopted as legally binding . Furthermore , the adoption of the current Constitution of Poland in 1997 , the territorial administration reform of 1999 , Poland 's entry into the European Union in 2004 , and other events have rendered this guideline obsolete as well . [ 1 ] The territorial administration reform has raised the question of whether the voivode , the national government 's representative in a voivodeship ( region ) , takes precedence before the voivodeship marshal , a popularly elected head of a voivodeship , or vice versa . Similarly , with Poland 's integration into the European Union , came the problem of Polish members of the European Parliament 's position in the order of precedence . Another bone of contention is the position of ecclesiastical officials vis-à-vis secular ones . Traditionally , Roman Catholic clergymen are treated with great reverence in Poland and are often assigned very high – even if undue from the protocolar point of view – positions in the order of precedence . [ 1 ] .mw-parser-output .nobold { font-weight : normal } Part of a series on theOrders of precedence Argentina Australia Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Brazil Canada Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon China Hong Kong Macau Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Guatemala Holy See India Indonesia Israel Italy Jamaica Lithuania Malaysia Johor Kedah Kelantan Malacca Negeri Sembilan Pahang Penang Perak Perlis Sabah Sarawak Selangor Terengganu Malta New Zealand Nepal Norway Pakistan Poland Poland-Lithuania ( hist . ) Portugal Philippines Romania Russia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Singapore Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey United Kingdom England and Wales Scotland Northern Ireland United States vte The list below is taken from the official website of Prime Minister 's Chancellery . [ 2 ] It is based on the unofficial instruction of 1992 with later addition of several new offices created after that date . Offices that no longer exist , but are included in the list , are marked in italics . Color key Legislative power Executive power Judicial power Other
There is no official document specifying the order of precedence in Poland. In practice, the precedence of officials in Poland is based on an outdated informal instruction dating back to 1992. Polish civil servants responsible for the protocol often need to make ad hoc decisions based on tradition, general rules of etiquette and common sense. An official order of precedence existed during the Communist era, but it was rendered obsolete by the transition to democracy that started in 1989. In 1992, a new guideline was prepared by Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski, and Janusz Ziółkowski, the chief of the President's chancellery. The new document, however, was never formally adopted as legally binding. Furthermore, the adoption of the current Constitution of Poland in 1997, the territorial administration reform of 1999, Poland's entry into the European Union in 2004, and other events have rendered this guideline obsolete as well. The lack of an official regulation in this matter leaves so much ambiguity that the only office whose position in the order of precedence is generally accepted is that of the President of the Republic. In everyday usage, the precedence is often based on such criteria as: source of power (elected officials take precedence before appointed ones), position of the given office in the constitution, as well as a person's seniority and salary (better paid officials are assumed to be also more important). Many questions remain unresolved though. The marshals (speakers) of both chambers of parliament are usually considered to take precedence before the prime minister based on their position in the line of presidential succession. Opponents of this view argue that the prime minister is constitutionally more powerful and therefore should be treated as Poland's second top official.