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| Affiliation | Law and Justice |
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| Name | Lech Kaczyński |
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Warsaw, , Poland |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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June 18, 1949
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| Died | April 10, 2010
(60 years)
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| Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
| Last Modifed | IndyGeorgia
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Caucasian - Polish - Union Member - Catholic - Christian - Straight -
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| Info | As children the twin brothers Lech and Jarosław starred in a popular Polish 1962 movie "About a pair who stole the moon" (Polish title: "O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc") based on a children's book by Kornel Makuszyński. As a result they both gained a certain measure of celebrity which helped them in later political career.
In the 1970s Lech Kaczyński was an activist of democratic anti-communist movement in Poland, and in August 1980 he became an adviser to the Strike Committee in Gdańsk Shipyard and the Solidarity movement. During the martial law introduced by the communists in December 1981 he was interned as an anti-socialist element.
When the Solidarity movement was legalized again in the late 1980s Lech Kaczyński was an active adviser of Lech Wałęsa and his Citizens Committee Solidarity (Komitet Obywatelski Solidarność;) in 1988, was elected Mamber of Parliament in June 1989, and vice-chairman of Solidarity trade union (NSZZ Solidarność). He was a leader and founder of a centrist political party: Porozumienie Centrum (Center Agreement) and the main adviser and supporter of Lech Wałęsa when he was elected the President of Poland in December 1990. Wałęsa nominated Kaczyński to be the Security Minister in the Presidential Chancellery.
Lech Kaczyński was the President of the Supreme Chamber of Control (Naczelna Izba Kontroli, NIK) from February 1992-May 1995 and later the Minister of Justice and Attorney General in Jerzy Buzek's government (June 2000-July 2001).
In 2001 he was the founder of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party, and since 2002 he is the president (mayor) of Warsaw, capital city of Poland. As president he managed, among other things, to support building the Museum of Warsaw Uprising and ban a gay parade.
On 19 March 2005, he formally declared his readiness to start in the upcoming presidential elections and is the leader in all opinion polls.
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