Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish politician: biography, family, political activity, interesting facts

The twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski first became famous for thirteen-year-old boys for the whole of Poland in 1962, showing themselves in the main roles of the children's feature film-fairy tale. The eldest of the brothers is Yaroslav.

Biography

The brothers were born in the Polish capital on 18.06.1949. Father, Raimund Kaczynski, a veteran of the war, a former officer of the Craiova Army, worked as an engineer. Yadviga's mother is a philologist. Both parents actively participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

The brothers jointly graduated from the school and continued their studies at the Faculty of Law and Management at the University of Warsaw.

Jaroslav Kaczynski started his scientific career since 1971. Has reached the scientific doctoral degree in the field of jurisprudence. His work included the Institute for Policy in Science and Higher Education and the Białystok branch of the University in Warsaw.

In the mid-seventies, the twin brothers began to engage in dissident activities, becoming members of the Committee for the Protection of Workers. 1980 - participants of the first congress of Solidarity.

When the state of emergency was introduced in 1981, only Lech was arrested, since it was considered a misspelled presence in the arrest lists of two people with the same surname and date of birth.

Later, Jaroslaw Kaczynski joined the leadership of the Solidarity trade union. In the 80's, he was a member of the Polish branch of the Helsinki Committee. In the 1989-90s he was the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Solidarnost.

Deputy activity

In late 1989, Yaroslav was elected a member of the Senate, nominated by the Civil Parliamentary Party. He was entrusted to represent the union during negotiations when forming government structures headed by T. Mazowiecki.

In 1990-92, the head of the presidential office of L. Valenza was Jaroslaw Kaczynski. The party "Centrist Forces Agreement" was founded in 1990. He was its leader for eight years, while he was quite active.

In 1991-1993, 1997-2001 and 2001-2005, this Polish politician was nominated to the Sejm deputies.

Create a new batch

In the spring of 2001, Kaczynski organized a new party of conservative persuasion, led by Lech. The party was named "Law and Justice". Ninety-five percent of the electoral votes were collected in the parliamentary elections six months after the creation of this party. The faction of the party in the Sejm was headed by Yaroslav.

Since 2003, after the election of Lech Kaczynski by the Warsaw mayor, the brother led the party. In September of the same year, the party "Law and Justice" gained almost 27 percent in the parliamentary elections, and Jaroslaw Kaczynski was reelected to the Sejm.

In order not to create obstacles to Brother Lech on the eve of presidential elections, Yaroslav had to abandon the post of head of the government cabinet. K. Martsinkevich was appointed to this post.

Lech Kaczynski - President of Poland

On November 23, 2005, Lech was elected president of Poland , who first of all expressed his gratitude to his brother. He informed the "pan-chairman of the party" that the "task" had been fulfilled - the presidential chair "was successfully won."

On July 14, 2006, Yaroslav was appointed prime minister.

Despite the fact that the brothers were conservative Catholics, according to some researchers, the Prime Minister of Poland adhered to a more right-wing worldview than his brother.

Actions in foreign Polish politics during the leadership of the brothers led to a certain tension with the European Union, rapprochement with the United States of America and deterioration of relations with Russia.

Political crisis

In the summer of 2007, Poland was in a situation of political crisis. Jaroslaw Kaczynski insisted that the president remove from office A. Lepper, who is vice-premier, minister of agriculture and head of the party "Self-Defense", a member of the government coalition as a junior partner.

The reason for the resignation was the facts of Lepper's involvement in the corruption scandal, but Lepper himself denied it in categorical form. According to him, "Self-defense" should remain in the government coalition, but the scandalous situation developed more and more with force.

Some media reported that the deputy prime minister was dismissed in connection with deliberate provocative actions organized by the prime minister.

In the early parliamentary elections in autumn 2007, the party "Law and Justice" received slightly more than 32 percent, having passed forward the "Civil Platform", which was headed by Donald Tusk. 5.11.2007 Y. Kaczynski left the post of prime minister.

Tragedy, Katyn, memorial

On 10.04.2010 Polish President Lech Kaczynski with his wife Maria and a number of high-ranking Polish politicians, military, religious and public figures flew on the presidential airliner Tu-154M by PLF101 from Warsaw to Smolensk. During the landing at the airfield Smolensk-Severnoye in a strong fog the plane crashed into the trees, fell and fell to pieces.

This terrible plane crash near Smolensk took 96 lives. Investigation of the causes of the tragedy was conducted by Russian and Polish specialists, as well as by the international commission.

The passengers of the collapsed aircraft were a Polish delegation headed by the president of the country who is making a private visit to the funeral event in Katyn. The memorial in memory of the execution of officers of the Polish army was erected there in honor of the seventieth anniversary of this mourning date.

Yaroslav Kaczynski was not among the dead passengers, since he refused this flight because of his mother's illness.

Results of investigation of a tragic accident

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) found in the course of the investigation that, until the aircraft collided with trees, the functioning of all systems was normal. Fog was the cause of poor visibility, which was lower than allowed when landing. Information about this was sent to the crew of the aircraft.

IAC concluded that the disaster occurred because of incorrect actions by the crew members of the airliner and psychological pressure on them.

The State Aviation Commission of the Polish Ministry of the Interior, engaged in the investigation of aviation accidents, acknowledged the mistake of the pilots as the reason for the tragedy, while important factors of the accident were identified problems with insufficient air navigation support for flight by the dispatchers of the Smolensk-Severnoy Airport and shortcomings in the maintenance of the aerodrome.

Election of a new president

20.06.2010 Poland elected the new head of state.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski in these elections received 36.74 percent of the vote, and his main opponent, the Speaker of the Polish Sejm Bronislaw Komorowski, - 41.22 percent. For the final selection on July 4, 2010 the following tour was organized. On it, Komorowski, a candidate from the "Civil Platform", gaining 53 percent of the vote, won.

Parliamentary elections - 2011 ended for the Kaczynski party is not entirely successful. With just over 30 percent of the vote, she was in second place. She entered the Sejm with 158 places.

During the presidential election of 2015, Kaczynski supported a fellow party member A. Dudu, who won by typing 53 percent of the vote.

On 20.06.2015, during the party conference of Y. Kaczynski, the candidacy of Beata Shidlo was nominated for the post of prime minister for the autumn election campaign.

The views of Y. Kaczynski

When in a plane crash in 2010, his brother died tragically, Jaroslaw Kaczynski about Russia responded as follows. First, he acknowledged the fact that the Russian authorities are investigating the reasons for the fall of the presidential airliner near Smolensk in cooperation with the Poles.

However, immediately after the elections, a sharp change in his position took place. He began to make hints that the Russian side was hiding the true causes of the accident, he even urged the United States to investigate this matter.

The Russian politician S. Stankevich sees in the statements of J. Kaczynski only political conjuncture. To maintain a certain degree of passion, extreme right-wing politicians always try to create an atmosphere of some kind of an upsurge. They are constantly trying to find more and more traumatic factors. Even such a grave tragedy they try to use to rally their supporters to mobilize extreme right-wing political views, Stankevich believes.

From Kaczynski repeatedly received statements that it is necessary to learn the whole truth about the circumstances of the Smolensk tragedy and publish it on the pages of books and textbooks.

According to him, the Poles must know the truth in order to draw the appropriate conclusions. The memory of the tragedy, according to the politician, should be perpetuated by any means, for example, in the name of the street or square, by installing a monument next to the presidential palace.

One of such speeches by Yaroslav Kaczynski at the site of the possible establishment of a monument to the victims of the tragedy was gathered by a huge number of supporters.

Recent statements by Kaczynski

In June 2016, the leader of the ruling party could hear a statement that the republican Polish sovereignty required protection. This is what he said, speaking in Warsaw.

From his words, interference is constantly noted in internal Polish affairs, the country becomes an object for pressure in solving issues that directly concern only the life of every citizen of the country.

"Poland," says J. Kaczynski, "should join various unions, seek various compromise solutions, but at the same time its sovereignty must remain unshakable." Poland should not be a supplier of labor for those who are more rich. "

Since June 2016, at the customs posts of the border between Russia and Poland, the check of Russian citizens visiting Poland has been significantly strengthened. This contributed to the appearance of queues at the border posts.

Kaczynski is an opponent of Poland's entry into the euro area, but he is a supporter of strengthening the NATO bloc on the European continent.

Many expect him to deteriorate relations with Germany and the EU as a whole.

In the initiatives of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the deployment of American troops on Polish territory is envisaged.

Personal life

Jaroslaw Kaczynski is single. His place of residence was always the town of Zholibozh, where he lived with his mother, who died on January 17, 2013.