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    Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛx alɛkˈsandɛr kaˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi] ; 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as...
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    ministries. Kaczyński was born on 18 June 1949, the identical twin brother of Lech Kaczyński. They were born in Warsaw. His father was Rajmund Kaczyński [pl]...
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    Law and Justice, particularly by party leader Jarosław Kaczyński (twin brother of Lech Kaczyński) and deputy party leader Antoni Macierewicz. Following...
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    Lech Kaczyński, the fourth President of the Republic of Poland, died on 10 April 2010, after a Polish Air Force Tu-154 crashed outside of Smolensk, Russia...
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  • party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct successor of the Centre Agreement...
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    Kwaśniewski's second term and his inability to stand for a third term, Tusk and Lech Kaczyński were the leading candidates for the presidential elections. Although...
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    2005 Polish presidential election (category Lech Kaczyński)
    served two five-year terms and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland. The election took...
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  • David Kaczynski (born 1949), American activist, Theodore Kaczynski's brother Filip Kaczyński (born 1987), Polish politician Jarosław Kaczyński (born 1949)...
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    the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech Kaczyński. She and her husband died in a plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk...
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    and was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate Lech Kaczyński (one of the twins, founders of the party). Both elections were blighted...
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    of the Civic Platform, defeated Jarosław Kaczyński, twin brother of recently deceased President Lech Kaczyński and chairman of Law and Justice (PiS). The...
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    sued the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, over his repeated collaboration allegations. Five months later, Kaczyński failed to invite Wałęsa to the...
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    plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other senior government officials. Ryszard Kaczorowski was born...
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    elections are called. On 10 April 2010, a plane carrying Polish president Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and 94 others including many Polish officials crashed near...
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    Macierewicz Commission. The crash, which killed President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, and 94 other dignitaries en route to the 70th anniversary...
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  • by the news magazine Wprost. Currently, she is a board member in the Lech Kaczyński Institute, an organisation which is the main shareholder of the company...
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    powers and duties of head of state following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010. Komorowski was then the governing...
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    acting president on April 10, 2010, following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash. On July 8, 2010, Poland had three different acting...
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  • 2007, Hosenfeld was posthumously honoured by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński with a Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In June...
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  • political program of the Law and Justice party, which together with Lech Kaczyński sought to introduce capital punishment in Poland and throughout Europe...
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  • 99283; 44.10572 Lech Kaczynski Street (Lithuanian: Lecho Kačinskio gatvė) in Vilnius Lech Kaczyński Street (Romanian: Strada Lech Kaczynski) in Chişinau...
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    Tribunal from 2007 until 2008. From 2008 to 2010, during the presidency of Lech Kaczyński, Duda was an undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of the President...
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    intervention. On 10 April 2010, an aircraft carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński with his wife and 87 other politicians and high-ranking army officers...
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  • Lech Kaczyński Robert Draba (acting, June 2, 2006 – August 2, 2006) – Lech Kaczyński Aleksander Szczygło (August 2, 2006 – February 7, 2007) – Lech Kaczyński...
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  • Lech Kaczyński, who served as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in a 2010 plane crash, and his identical twin brother Jarosław Kaczyński,...
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    65%; in March 2005, with 17%, polls showed him ranking second behind Lech Kaczyński (19%) however as the elections neared he continued to lose support to...
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    000 books in its collection. On 12 October 2008, President of Poland Lech Kaczyński visited Lutheran Jesus Church in Cieszyn, becoming the first Polish...
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    both cold Lech (beer), and can coincidentally mean cold (body of) Lech (Kaczyński), the former president of Poland, who was buried in Wawel on 18 April...
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    made PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński Prime Minister. However, he declined the post so as not to prejudice his twin brother Lech's chances for the presidential...
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    Tu-154 crash near Smolensk in Russia, which also claimed the lives of Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland and his wife, and the senior commanders of...
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