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Kaczy ski, Lech |
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(l kh käch n´sk ) (KEY) , 1949–, Polish politician, grad. Warsaw Univ., Gdask Univ. (Ph.D., 1976). He and his identical twin, Jaros aw, first gained public attention as child movie actors. Both were active in the prodemocracy movement of the 1970s and were members of Solidarity. A longtime advisor to Lech Wa sa, Lech Kaczyski 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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