| − | '''Andrzej Duda''' (Born 16 May 1972) is the fifth [[President]] of [[Poland]].. He is a member of the pro-[[Christian]], pro-[[free market]], pro-[[traditional marriage]] [[Law and Justice]] Party, which controlled the Presidency from 2005–2010 and would have done so longer had popular President [[Lech Kaczyński]] not been killed in a suspicious plane crash in [[Russia]].<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612825.stm</ref> He defeated the [[liberal]] President Bronisław Komorowski on May 25, 2015 in a runoff election to become the fifth President-elect of Poland since 1990, in a result which, along with smashing [[Conservative]] victories in the UK, likely heralds the decline of liberalism both in Poland and in [[Europe]] as a whole. | + | '''Andrzej Duda''' (Born 16 May 1972) is the fifth [[President]] of [[Poland]]. He is a member of the pro-[[Christian]], pro-[[free market]], pro-[[traditional marriage]] [[Law and Justice]] Party, which controlled the Presidency from 2005–2010 and would have done so longer had popular President [[Lech Kaczyński]] not been killed in a suspicious plane crash in [[Russia]].<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612825.stm</ref> He defeated the [[liberal]] President Bronisław Komorowski on May 25, 2015 in a runoff election to become the fifth President-elect of Poland since 1990, in a result which, along with smashing [[Conservative]] victories in the UK, likely heralds the decline of liberalism both in Poland and in [[Europe]] as a whole. |