In the spotlight: Ludwik Dorn

In contrast, the stepping down of Ludwik Dorn, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was a shock. Dorn had worked with the Kaczyński brothers since the early 1990s, was one PiS' founding members and, moreover, was for years considered the third most important person in the party's ranks.

Dorn has a nice opposition record to his name. In high school he was a member of the scouting movement and one of his instructors was current Deputy Minister of Defense Antoni Macierewicz. Early on he took part in "minor sabotage" activities, such as painting anti-communist slogans on walls, and was later active in the underground press (he ran the Głos paper during the martial law period) as well as other opposition activities throughout the 1980s.

In 1989 he co-founded the Christian National Union (ZChN) with Macierewicz, but left it after four weeks. In 1990 Dorn started cooperating with the Kaczyński twins. When Jarosław Kaczyński was the head of President Wałęsa's Chancellery, Dorn headed its analysis team. He stuck with the Kaczyńskis through the rest of the decade, even when their Center Agreement (PC) party was outside Parliament. In 2001 he was one of the founders of PiS and its vice chairman. After the party's election victory in 2005 he became the Minister of Interior Affairs and Administration.

An interesting side note is that during 1980s Dorn made a living off translating John le Carré's spy novels under the pseudonym Dorota Lutecka. He also received honorable mention in a fairy-tale writing contest.