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Kaczynski, Lech

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Kaczyński, Lech (lĕkh kächĭn`skē), 1949–, Polish politician, grad. Warsaw Univ., Gdańsk Univ. (Ph.D., 1976). He and his identical twin, Jarosław, first gained public attention as child movie actors. Both were active in the prodemocracy movement of the 1970s and were members of Solidarity Solidarity, Polish independent trade union federation formed in Sept., 1980. Led by Lech Wałęsa, it grew rapidly in size and political power and soon posed a threat to Poland's Communist government by its sponsorship of labor strikes and other forms of
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. A longtime advisor to Lech Wałęsa Wałęsa, Lech , 1943–, Polish labor and political leader. He worked as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk but was dismissed in 1976 for his antigovernment protests.
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, Lech Kaczyński served in the Polish senate (1989–91) and parliament (1991–93). Subsequently, he was head of the supreme auditing board (1992–95), justice minister (2000–2001), and mayor of Warsaw (2002–5). A founder (2002), with his brother, of the conservative Law and Justice party, he was elected president of Poland in 2005, campaigning on a socially conservative platform.


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