Lech Kaczynski

Lech Kaczyński (born: 18th June 1949, Warsaw) is a Polish politician, and together with his twin brother Jarosław Kaczyński a leader of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) party. Kaczyński is also the acting President of Warsaw (since 2002).

Political biography:

In the 1970s Lech Kaczynski was an activist of democratic anti-communist movement in Poland, and in August 1980 he became an adviser to the Strike Committee in Gdansk (German:Danzig) 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 Kaczynski 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 Agrement) and the main adviser and supporter of Lech Walesa when he was elected the President of Poland in December 1990. Walesa nominated Kaczynski to be the Security Minister in the Presidential Chancellery.

Lech Kaczynski 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 and Sprawiedliwość party, and since 2002 he is the president (mayor) of Warsaw, capital city of Poland.

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