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==Electoral defeat, 2007== ==Electoral defeat, 2007==
Even though Law and Justice gained votes{{fact}}, overall it lost the ] on ], ], finishing a distant second behind the Civic Platform. Kaczyński has become a leader of the opposition and has lost his position as prime minister. Even though Law and Justice gained votes, overall it lost the ] on ], ], finishing a distant second behind the Civic Platform. Kaczyński has become a leader of the opposition and has lost his position as prime minister.


==See also== ==See also==

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Jarosław Kaczyński
Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
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Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic
In office
July 14 2006 – November 16 2007
PresidentLech Kaczyński
Vice PMLudwik Dorn, Zyta Gilowska, Przemysław Gosiewski, Andrzej Lepper, Roman Giertych
Preceded byKazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Succeeded byDonald Tusk
2 Not done Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
In office
December 22 1990 – October 31 1991
PresidentLech Wałęsa
Preceded byMichał Janiszewski
Succeeded byJanusz Ziółkowski
Acting Minister of Agriculture
In office
September 22 2006 – October 16 2006
PresidentLech Kaczyński
Prime MinisterJarosław Kaczyński
Preceded byAndrzej Lepper
Succeeded byAndrzej Lepper
Acting Minister of Agriculture
In office
July 9 2007 – July 31 2007
PresidentLech Kaczyński
Prime MinisterJarosław Kaczyński
Preceded byAndrzej Lepper
Succeeded byWojciech Mojzesowicz
Acting Minister of Sport and Tourism
In office
July 9 2007 – July 13 2007
PresidentLech Kaczyński
Prime MinisterJarosław Kaczyński
Preceded byTomasz Lipiec
Succeeded byElżbieta Jakubiak
Personal details
Born (1949-06-18) June 18, 1949 (age 75)
Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland
Political partyLaw and Justice
Spouse(s)Single; Never married
ProfessionLawyer
SignatureFile:Jarosław Kaczynski signature.jpg
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Jarosław Kaczyński with Jose Luis Zapatero(Spain prime minister)

Jarosław Kaczyński IPA: [jaˈrɔswaf kaˈtʃɨɲskʲi] (born June 18, 1949) is a 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.

After the 2007 electoral defeat of PiS Kaczyński stepped down from office as Prime Minister, after the first meeting of the new Sejm.

Family background

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The Kaczyński twins first rose to public prominence as child actors in the 1962 film The Two Who Stole the Moon. Jarosław is on the left

Jarosław Kaczyński is the identical twin brother of Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland. Jarosław and Lech were born in Warsaw, Jaroslaw 45 minutes before Lech. 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 children, the brothers starred in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon (Template:Lang-pl), based on a popular children's story by Kornel Makuszyński..

Jarosław Kaczyński has never married.

Early career

Jarosław Kaczyński was a member of the Solidarity Trade Union in the 1980s. He was the executive editor of Tygodnik Solidarność weekly in 1989-1991. In 1991, together with Lech, he created the right wing "Porozumienie Centrum" party, and later on he became its chairman (until 1998). During 1991-1993 and 1997-2005 he was a member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm).

Elections, 2005

Jarosław Kaczyński was the "Law and Justice" prime minister candidate in the September 2005 Polish parliamentary election. 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 Lech 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" (Template:Lang-pl) and the deeply conservative Christian "League of Polish Families" party. Party-member Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was appointed Prime Minister.

Lech won the presidential election and was appointed President on December 23, 2005. Soon after, during a live TV broadcast Lech addressed his brother saying "I report mission accomplished", a statement that raised controversy about the president's independence.

In the succeeding months, Jarosław Kaczyński was described as a frontbench MP and the leader of his party. Many also described Jarosław Kaczyński as Poland's most influential politician. He was said to have enormous influence on the Prime Minister's decision-making process.

Controversial incidents involving Jarosław Kaczyński

  • On October 1, 2006 Jarosław Kaczyński, at a pro-government rally in Gdańsk Shipyard, compared the opposition to ZOMO, a paramilitary riot police unit during the communist period.
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