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In office July 14, 2006 – November 16, 2007 |
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| President | Lech Kaczyński |
| Vice PM | Ludwik Dorn, Zyta Gilowska, Przemysław Gosiewski, Andrzej Lepper, Roman Giertych |
| Preceded by | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz |
| Succeeded by | Donald Tusk |
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In office December 22, 1990 – October 31, 1991 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa |
| Preceded by | Michał Janiszewski |
| Succeeded by | Janusz Ziółkowski |
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Acting Minister of
Agriculture
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In office September 22, 2006 – October 16, 2006 |
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| President | Lech Kaczyński |
| Prime Minister | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Andrzej Lepper |
| Succeeded by | Andrzej Lepper |
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Acting Minister of
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In office July 9, 2007 – July 31, 2007 |
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| President | Lech Kaczyński |
| Prime Minister | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Andrzej Lepper |
| Succeeded by | Wojciech Mojzesowicz |
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In office July 9, 2007 – July 13, 2007 |
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| President | Lech Kaczyński |
| Prime Minister | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Tomasz Lipiec |
| Succeeded by | Elżbieta Jakubiak |
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| Born | June 18, 1949 Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland |
| Political party | Law and Justice |
| Spouse(s) | Single; Never married |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic[1] |
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Jarosław Kaczyński (Polish
pronunciation: [jaˈrɔswaf kaˈtʂɨɲskʲi] (
listen); born
June 18, 1949) is a conservative Polish politician who was Prime Minister from July 2006 to November
2007. He presently is the chairman of the Law and Justice
party, which
he co-founded in 2002. He has a Doctor of law degree. He is also the
identical twin brother of Polish president Lech
Kaczyński. After the 2007 electoral
defeat of PiS Kaczyński stepped down from office as Prime
Minister, after the first meeting of the new Sejm. [2]
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Jarosław Kaczyński was a member of the Solidarity Trade Union in the 1980s. He was the executive editor of the Tygodnik Solidarność weekly in 1989–91. In 1991, he created the centrist Christian Democratic Porozumienie Centrum party and later became its chairman, remaining in the role until 1998. In the years 1991–3 and 1997–2005 he was a member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm).
Jarosław Kaczyński was the Law and Justice prime ministerial candidate in the September 2005 Polish parliamentary election[3]. However, when the party emerged as winner of the election, Jarosław pledged that he would not take the position, expecting that his nomination would reduce the chances of his brother Lech Kaczyński, who was a candidate for the October presidential election.
Jarosław Kaczyński was the architect of the coalition with the left wing populist Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Samoobrona) and the deeply conservative Christian League of Polish Families party. Party-member Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was appointed Prime Minister.
In the succeeding months, he was described as a frontbench MP and the leader of his party. Many also described Kaczyński as Poland's most influential politician. He was said to have enormous influence on the Prime Minister's decision-making process.
Following reports of a rift between Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński, Marcinkiewicz tendered his resignation on July 7, 2006 and Jarosław was appointed Prime Minister by the President Lech Kaczyński on July 10 and officially sworn in on July 14, following the formation of cabinet and a confidence vote in the Sejm.[4][5][6] During Lech Kaczyński's election campaign in 2005, he had pledged that should he win, Jarosław would not become Prime Minister.[7]
Despite gaining votes, Law and Justice lost the parliamentary election on October 21, 2007, finishing a distant second behind Christian-democratic and conservative liberal Civic Platform. Kaczyński was succeeded as Prime Minister by Donald Tusk, remaining chairman of Law and Justice and becoming a leader of the opposition.
Jarosław Kaczyński is the identical twin brother of Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland. Jarosław and Lech were born in Warsaw, Jarosław 45 minutes before Lech.[8] The Kaczyński brothers are sons of Rajmund (an engineer who served as a soldier of the Armia Krajowa in World War II and a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising) and Jadwiga (a philologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences).
As a child, Jarosław Kaczyński with his twin brother Lech Kaczyński (current President of Poland) starred in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon (Polish: O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc), based on a popular children's story by Kornel Makuszyński.[9].
On August 19, 2007 The Sunday Times reported:
Poland’s leading national newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, leaked documents from the files of the former Soviet secret service indicating that Jaroslaw had been investigated for homosexual orientation under the communists. Lech Walesa, who has fallen out with the duo, is much quoted as saying: “When I used to see them both, Lech would turn up with his wife, and Jaroslaw would turn up with his husband.”[10]
| Preceded by Michał Janiszewski |
Chief of
the Office of the President 1990-1991 |
Succeeded by Janusz Ziółkowski |
| Preceded by Lech Kaczyński |
President of the
Law and Justice 2002- |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Preceded by Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz |
Prime Minister of the Republic of
Poland 2006–2007 |
Succeeded by Donald Tusk |
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