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Jarosław Kaczyński
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Kaczyński in 2022
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |
| In office 21 June 2023 – 27 November 2023 |
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| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
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Mariusz Błaszczak
Piotr Gliński Henryk Kowalczyk Jacek Sasin |
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Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Krzysztof Gawkowski |
| In office 6 October 2020 – 21 June 2022 |
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| Prime Minister | Mateusz Morawiecki |
| Preceded by | Jadwiga Emilewicz |
| Succeeded by | Mariusz Błaszczak |
| Prime Minister of Poland | |
| In office 14 July 2006 – 16 November 2007 |
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| President | Lech Kaczyński |
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| Preceded by | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz |
| Succeeded by | Donald Tusk |
| Leader of Law and Justice | |
| Assumed office 18 January 2003 |
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| General Secretary |
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Joachim Brudziński
Jarosław Zieliński |
| Parliamentary Leader |
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Ludwik Dorn
Przemysław Gosiewski Marek Kuchciński Przemysław Gosiewski Grażyna Gęsicka Marek Kuchciński Mariusz Błaszczak Ryszard Terlecki |
| Preceded by | Lech Kaczyński |
| Chief of the Presidential Chancellery | |
| In office 22 December 1990 – 31 October 1991 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa |
| Preceded by | Michał Janiszewski |
| Succeeded by | Janusz Ziółkowski |
| Member of the Sejm | |
| Assumed office 31 October 1997 |
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| In office 6 December 1991 – 26 October 1993 |
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| Constituency | Warsaw I |
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Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński
18 June 1949 Warsaw, Poland |
| Political party | Law and Justice (2001–present) |
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| Alma mater | University of Warsaw (LL.D.) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish: [jaˈrɔswaf kaˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi]; born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician. He co-founded the Law and Justice (PiS) party in 2001 with his twin brother and has served as its long-time leader since 2003. He served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2006 to 2007, and has twice held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, first from 2020 to 2022, and a second time from June to November 2023. He is considered to have been the de facto leader of Poland, when PiS formed the government in 2005–2007 and again in 2015–2023, with direct political influence over the prime ministers Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Beata Szydło and Mateusz Morawiecki.
Jaroslaw Kaczyński as a student took part in protest during the March 1968 political crisis. Subsequently, he became involved in the anti-communist opposition as a collaborator of KOR and KSS KOR. He took part in the protests in August 1980 when he was arrested, then joined the Solidarity movement. In 1982 he became a member of the Polish Helsinki Committee. He took part in the 1988 strikes.
In 1989, Kaczyński took part in the Round Table talks. In 1989–1991, he served as a senator. In 1990, he founded the Centre Agreement party, of which he served as leader until 1998. In 1990–91 he was head of the chancellery of President Lech Wałęsa. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1991 to 1993 and continuously since 1997.
In 2001 he co-founded the PiS party with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, of which he became leader in 2003. 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 main 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 was considered to be the most powerful politician in Poland and one of the most influential European leaders. In 2020, he was designated as the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland with oversight over the defense, justice and interior ministries.
Early life
Kaczyński was born on 18 June 1949, the identical twin brother of Lech Kaczyński. They were born in Warsaw. His father was Rajmund Kaczyński (1922–2005), an engineer who served as a soldier in the Armia Krajowa in World War II, and his mother was Jadwiga Kaczyńska (1926–2013), a philologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences. As children, he starred with his brother 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. Kaczyński studied law at the Warsaw University's Faculty of Law and Administration, where in 1976 he obtained a Doctor of Law (LL.D.) degree after completing a dissertation titled "The role of collegial bodies in governing institutions of higher education" under the supervision of Stanisław Ehrlich.
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In Spanish: Jarosław Kaczyński para niños
