Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński ( Polish pronunciation: [jaˈrɔswaf kaˈʈ͡ʂɨɲskʲi] ( listen); born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician and lawyer, and the current leader of the Law and Justiceparty (PiS by its Polish acronym), which he co-founded in 2001 with his identical twin brother, late Polish President Lech Kaczyński Running for PiS, he served as Prime Minister of Poland from July 2006 to November 2007. After PiS's electoral defeat in 2007, Kaczyński was the main leader of the opposition to Civic Platform's governments.
He ran against then acting President Bronisław Komorowski in the Polish presidential election on 20 June 2010, which was called following the death of Lech Kaczyński. Kaczyński announced his candidacy, replacing his recently deceased brother, but lost.
Despite not being the PiS candidate for either President or Prime Minister, Kaczyński is widely considered the mastermind behind the PiS victories in both the 2015 presidential and 2015 parliamentary elections. Even though he does not serve as either prime minister or president, and is formally just a member of the Sejm, he is the considered one of the most powerful men in Poland, as well as one of the most influential leaders in the European Union.
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