Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Kaczyński born on the 18th June 1949 in Warsaw is a Polish politician, founder and president of the political parties Porozumienie Centrum (Center Alliance) and Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice), a senator of the first term, and a Member of Parliament (I, III, IV, V, VI and VII cadency). From 14 July 2006 to 16 November 2007 he was the Prime Minister. He was also a candidate for the office of the President of Poland in the early presidential elections in 2010.
Political Career
Between 1989 and 1991 he was a member of the Senate as a representative for the Elbląg province and was a member of the Citizens' Parliamentary Club. Then in 1993 he held the mandate as a Member of Parliament being selected from a list of the Civic Alliance in Warsaw. He sat again in Parliament for his third term in 1997 as the candidate for the Movement for the Reconstruction Polish (ROP) for the capital district. His party was affiliated with Solidarity Electoral Action, of which Jaroslaw Kaczynski was one of the founders. Together with Ludwik Dorn he worked for the parliamentary ROP in January 2000 (in March of the same year it was renamed the wheel ROP-PC), he held this role until July 2001. In 2001, together with Lech Kaczynski he co-founded Prawo I Sprawiedliwość (the Law and Justice party), which in the parliamentary elections in 2001 won 9.5% of the vote and 44 seats in parliament. Jaroslaw Kaczynski remained in parliament, as a member for Warsaw. Between 2001 and 2003 he became a member of the Ethics Committee and chairman of the PiS parliamentary club. In 2003 he became the president of this group, replacing his brother, who was elected president of the Capital City Warsaw. In 2005, Law and Justice, under his leadership, won the parliamentary elections. On December the 28th 2005 he received a nomination from Lech Kaczynski's to become a member of the National Security Council. After the resignation of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz in July 7, 2006 Jaroslaw Kaczynski received a formal recommendation from his party to take the post of prime minister. In 2010 he announced that he will be a candidate for Law and Justice in the early presidential elections timetabled after the death of his brother in a plane crash in Smolensk. After an election rally on the 9th June, Jaroslaw Kaczynski was sued by Bronislaw Komorowski in connection with his statement, in which he stated that his rival advocated the privatization of health care. In the first round of the presidential elections in June 20, 2010 he took the second place out of 10 contenders. He entered the second round of voting together with Bronislaw Komorowski, who won with 41.54%. In the second round of voting Jaroslaw Kaczynski lost out to Bronislaw Komorowski. In the parliamentary elections in 2011, Jaroslaw Kaczynski again entered Parliament as the leader of the Law and Justice list in the district capital. In 2013 once again he was elected as President of the party.
Education
He studied at the University of Warsaw. In 1971 he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University with a Master’s degree. In 1976 at the University of Warsaw he successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “The role of collective bodies in the management of higher education institutions”.
