Andrzej Duda
Andrzej Sebastian Duda born 16 May 1972 in Krakow is a Polish lawyer and politician, since 2015 serving as the sixth President of Poland. Before the 2015 elections, he was a lawyer and a Member of the European Parliament. He studied law at the Jagiellonian University. In October 2001 he was appointed as an assistant professor in Administrative Law Department of Jagiellonian University, and in January 2005 obtained a PhD degree in law there. Due to his political career, he has been mostly on unpaid leave since September 2006, except for a 13-month interval beginning in September 2010, when he returned to the university. Duda began his political career with the now-defunct Freedom Union Party in the early 2000s, but after the parliamentary elections in 2005, began his collaboration with the Law and Justice Party (PIS). From 2006 to 2007 he was an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Justice. From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the Polish State Tribunal. From 2008 to 2010 he was an undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland during the presidency of Lech Kaczyński. In 2010, he was an unsuccessful candidate to become the Mayor of Kraków as a PiS candidate, but was more successful in the 2011 parliamentary election, where he received 79,981 votes for the Kraków area, and thus became an envoy to the Sejm. The candidate of the Law and Justice party for the office of President of Poland in the 2015 Polish presidential elections, he won the presidential run-off held on 24 May 2015 against incumbent Bronisław Komorowski.
