Lech Kaczyński

2012-01-09T19:15:42Z

TomW: Jarosław has not been prime minister since the 2007 election

[[Image:Asdf.jpg|right|thumb|Lech Kaczynski]]
'''Lech Kaczyński''' was the president of [[Poland]], inaugurated 23 December 2005 until his death on April 10, 2010. Kaczyński was born in [[Warsaw]] in 1949. He was educated in law at Warsaw University. He was involved with the [[Solidarity]] movement in the late 1980s. He served as the mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until he was elected president<ref>http://www.president.pl/x.node?id=437</ref>. His identical twin brother, Jarosław, was Prime Minister of Poland from July 2006 to November 2007.

Lech Kaczyński died in a plane crash on April 10, 2010 in Russia, as part of the official delegation to Russia to commemorate the [[Katyn Forest massacre]].

==Political Stance==
Kaczynski represented the [[Law and Justice]] party, the right-wing conservative party of Poland. He was a conservative Christian who strongly supported putting Christian values in the [[European Union]] constitution<ref>http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/gb/dokument.aspx?iid=49980</ref>. His government was pro-American and contributed soldiers to the War in Iraq.<ref>http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm</ref> The Kaczyński administration supported a total ban on [[abortion]], a total ban on [[homosexual]] propaganda in schools, and the building of American anti-nuclear missile shields on Polish soil.{{fact}}

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==See also==
*[[Law and Justice]] - Polish right-wing political party
*[[Jarosław Kaczyński]] - former Polish [[Prime Minister]]
*[[Maria Kaczyńska]]

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