Andrzej Duda

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Andrzej Duda
Andrzej Duda podczas kampanii prezydenckiej 2.jpg
6th President of Poland
Assumed office
6 August 2015
Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz
Beata Szydło
Preceded by Bronisław Komorowski
Deputy Minister of Justice
In office
1 August 2006 – 15 November 2007
Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 25 May 2015
Personal details
Born Andrzej Sebastian Duda
(1972-05-16) 16 May 1972 (age 51)
Kraków, Poland
Political party Freedom Union (2000–2001)
Law and Justice (2005–2015)
Independent (2015–present)
Spouse(s) Agata Kornhauser (m. 1994)
Children Kinga
Residence Belvedere Palace
Alma mater Jagiellonian University
Religion Roman Catholicism
Awards Order of the White Eagle (Poland) Order of Polonia Restituta Order of Merit (Portugal) Order of Leopold (Belgium) Order of White Lion (Czech Republic) Order of Stara Planina (Bulgaria) Order of St. Olav
Signature
Website Official website

Andrzej Sebastian Duda (born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer, politician and, since 2015, the sixth President of Poland.[1] Before the 2015 elections, he was a Member of the European Parliament.[2]

Early life

Duda was born in Kraków, the son of Janina Milewska and Jan Tadeusz Duda, professors at the AGH University of Science and Technology. His grandfather fought in the Polish-Soviet War and later in the Home Army during the Second World War.[3]

He attended Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków.[4]

He studied law at the Jagiellonian University. In October 2001 he was appointed as an assistant professor in Administrative Law Department of Jagiellonian University, and in January 2005 obtained a PhD degree in law there. Due to his political career, he has been mostly on unpaid leave since September 2006, except for a 13-month interval beginning in September 2010, when he returned to the university.[5]

Political career

Duda began his political career with the now-defunct Freedom Union Party in the early 2000s, but after the parliamentary elections in 2005, began his collaboration with the Law and Justice Party (PIS).[6] From 2006 to 2007 he was an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Justice. From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the Polish State Tribunal. From 2008 to 2010 he was an undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland during the presidency of Lech Kaczyński.[7] In 2010, he was an unsuccessful candidate to become the Mayor of Kraków as a PiS candidate,[8] but was more successful in the 2011 parliamentary election, where he received 79,981 votes for the Kraków area, and thus became an envoy to the Sejm.[9]

In September 2013, the paper Polityka commended him for being one of the most active MPs at the time, describing him as being open to opposition arguments and as refraining from personal attacks, as part of his role at the Commission for Constitutional Responsibility.[10] However, he did not sit out the term, becoming elected in 2014 as a member of the European Parliament.[11]

In the first round of the 2015 presidential election, he came first, receiving 5,179,092 votes and thus 34.76% of valid votes.[12] In the second round he took 51.55% of the vote against the 48.45% share of his rival, incumbent president Bronisław Komorowski.[13] On 26 May 2015, he officially resigned from party membership.[14]

Presidency (2015–present)

Duda rejected the European Union's proposal of compulsory migrant quotas, saying: "I won’t agree to a dictate of the strong. I won’t back a Europe where the economic advantage of the size of a population will be a reason to force solutions on other countries regardless of their national interests".[15]

President Andrzej Duda during his inaugural address in front of the National Assembly with Sejm Marshal Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska and Senate Marshal Bogdan Borusewicz behind him.

Personal life

He is married to Agata Kornhauser-Duda, a teacher of German at Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków.[16] They met at a party while still attending rival schools[3] and have been married since 21 December 1994.[17] Together they have one daughter, Kinga, born in 1995, now also studying law.[18] His father-in-law is Julian Kornhauser, a well-known writer, translator and literary critic of Jewish descent.[19]

He is a keen skier and while studying participated in the Polish Academic Championships in the Alpine skiing category.[3]

Duda is a devout Catholic, and the Church is very important to him. He took part in religious ceremonies on many occasions, including Midnight Mass, the blessing of food on Holy Saturday, or the Corpus Christi procession in Kraków.[20][21][22]

Honours

See also

References

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  19. ↑ Marek Bartosik, Andrzej Duda: spóźniony pociąg do polityki Gazeta Krakowska 2010-11-19 (Polish)
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Political offices
Preceded by President of Poland
2015–present		 Incumbent
Order of precedence
First Order of precedence of Poland
as President		 Succeeded by
Marek Kuchciński
as Marshal of the Sejm
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