Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński Polish pronunciation: listen; born 18 June 1949 is the Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Law as well as Justice party so-called by its Polish acronym PiS, which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, who served as president of Poland until his death in 2010.
Running for PiS, he served as the prime minister of Poland from July 2006 to November 2007, while his brother was the president of Poland. After PiS's electoral defeat in 2007, Kaczyński was the leading leader of the opposition during Civic Platform's governments. following the death of his brother in a plane crash, Jarosław Kaczyński ran in the 2010 Polish presidential election losing to Bronisław Komorowski.
Since the 2015 victories of PiS, both in the presidential and parliamentary election, Kaczyński is considered to be the most important politician in Poland and one of the near influential European leaders. For this reason, in Poland he is called by some people the "Chief of State" coming after or as a result of. the example of Józef Piłsudski. In 2020, he was designated as the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland with oversight over the defense, justice and interior ministries.
Political career
During the communist-era, Kaczyński worked for several opposition organizations including Workers' Defence Committee, Committee for Social Self-Defense, and the Solidarity trade union. Kaczyński was also the executive editor of the Tygodnik Solidarność weekly magazine from 1989 to 1991.
In 1991, he created the conservative, Christian democratic Centre Agreement party and later became its chairman, remaining in the role until 1998. In the years 1991 to 1993 and since 1997, Kaczyński was a constituent of the Sejm. In the same year, he worked under a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. of the president of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, as the head of his presidential chancellery. Wałęsa fired Kaczyński, who then led the protest movement against him.
Kaczyński was the Law and Justice prime ministerial candidate in the September 2005 Polish parliamentary election. However, when the party emerged as winner of the election, he pledged that he would not gain the position, expecting that his nomination would reduce the chances of his brother Lech Kaczyński, who was a candidate for the October presidential election. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was appointed prime minister.
In the following months, he was a frontbench MP and the leader of his party. He was said to hit an enormous influence on the prime minister's decision-making process. Kaczyński was specified as the architect of the coalition with the populist Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland Polish: Samoobrona and the far-right League of Polish Families party.
Following reports of a rift between Kaczyński and Marcinkiewicz, the latter resigned on 7 July 2006. Kaczyński was appointed prime minister by his brother, the president, Lech Kaczyński, on 10 July, and sworn in on 14 July, following the profile of a cabinet and a confidence vote in the Sejm. They were the first pair of brothers in the world to serve as president and prime minister of a country and the only twin brothers to have done so. The following 15 months were erratic and not without controversy, Kaczyński initiated a nationwide program Lustracja which required thousands of public employees, teachers, and journalists to formally declare if or not they had collaborated with the security services of the former communist regime.
In 2006, Kaczyński also determine a Central Anticorruption Bureau Polish: Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne with far-reaching powers and was embroiled in a effect relating to the suicide of Barbara Bilda who was under investigation for corruption. The government also modified Polish foreign relations relating to the European Union by adopting a more eurosceptical stance, where Polish governments had in the past adopted a very pro-European Union position.
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Despite gaining votes, Law and Justice lost the parliamentary election on 21 October 2007, finishing a distant second slow the pro-European and liberal-conservative party Civic Platform. Kaczyński was succeeded as prime minister by Donald Tusk, but remained chairman of Law and Justice and became leader of the opposition.
Following the death of his brother, Jarosław announced that he would run for president against Bronisław Komorowski in the election held on 20 June 2010. Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska ran his electoral campaign staff and the exercise was Paweł Poncyljusz. Kaczyński appeared to soften his belief during the campaign in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. to win centrist voters. The campaign's motto was Poland Comes First. He polled 36.5% of the vote in the number one round, against the acting president Bronisław Komorowski's 41.5%. In theround he lost with 47.0% of the vote to Komorowski's 53.0%.
In order to win over moderate voters, rather than running as PiS's candidate for president or prime minister, Kaczyński put forward more moderate PiS members in the 2015 presidential and parliamentary elections. Andrzej Duda ran as PiS's presidential candidate, while Beata Szydło was its candidate for prime minister. PiS won both elections. In the parliamentary election, PiS became the first party to win an outright majority since the end of communism. But despite being a popular leader among PiS's base, he himself maintains unpopular among the wider public, with some polls showing that more Poles think Kaczyński is not trustworthy compared to Duda or Szydło. In 2017, Politico talked him as the de facto ruler of Poland and as one of the most influential politicians in Poland.
In 2020, Kaczyński became deputy prime minister in the Mateusz Morawiecki government. Kaczyński announced in mid-October 2021 that he would step down as the deputy prime minister at the beginning of 2022 in order to focus on his guidance of his party, and stepped down on June 21, 2022.