In the spotlight: Stanisław Kluza

Having four Finance Ministers in less than a year and the smell of another change in the air certainly doesn't help matters. After Zyta Gilowska was found not guilty of cooperating with the communist secret services, Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński publicly invited her back to his government. This could signal the end of the current Finance Minister Stanisław Kluza's short term. The 34-year-old Kluza has headed the Ministry since July, replacing Paweł Wojciechowski, who served for just two weeks.

Kluza could leave Gilowska an unwanted welcome-back present in the form of extra budget expenses. Following Self-defense's and League of Polish Families' threats to leave the coalition if their demands for additional expenditures were not met, Kluza miraculously found an additional zł.3 billion down the back of the budget's sofa. Maintaining the budget deficit at zł.30 billion, the Finance Ministry increased its income prognosis from zł.209 billion to zł.212 billion.

Kluza is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, George Washington University in St Louis and Glasgow University, and he was also a Fulbright scholar. He was the chief economist at Bank Gospodarki Żywnościowej and has worked for companies such as McKinsey & Co, Computerland and Unilever Polska.

Kluza was the Deputy Finance Minister in Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz's government.