Bronisław Komorowski

Bronisław Komorowski
Official portrait, 2013
President of Poland
In office
6 August 2010  6 August 2015
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Ewa Kopacz
Preceded byGrzegorz Schetyna (acting)
Succeeded byAndrzej Duda
Acting
10 April 2010  8 July 2010
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byLech Kaczyński
Succeeded byBogdan Borusewicz (acting)
Marshal of the Sejm
In office
5 November 2007  8 July 2010
Preceded byLudwik Dorn
Succeeded byGrzegorz Schetyna
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm
In office
25 October 2005  4 November 2007
MarshalMarek Jurek
Ludwik Dorn
Minister of National Defence
In office
16 June 2000  19 October 2001
Prime MinisterJerzy Buzek
Preceded byJanusz Onyszkiewicz
Succeeded byJerzy Szmajdziński
Member of the Sejm
In office
25 November 1991  8 July 2010
Constituency20 – Warsaw II (1997–2010)
32 – Piła (1993–1997)
36 – Katowice (1991–1993)
Personal details
Born
Bronisław Maria Komorowski

(1952-06-04) 4 June 1952
Oborniki Śląskie, Poland
Political partyIndependent (2010–present)
Other political
affiliations
UD (before 1994)
UW (1994–1997)
SKL (before 2001)
PO (2001–2010)
Spouse
(m. 1977)
Children5
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
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Bronisław Maria Komorowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf kɔmɔˈrɔfskʲi] ; born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who was the fifth president of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski previously served as Minister of National Defence from 2000 to 2001. As Marshal of the Sejm, Komorowski exercised the powers and duties of acting president following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010.

Komorowski was then the governing Civic Platform party's candidate in the resulting presidential election, which he won in the second round of voting on 4 July 2010. He was sworn in as president on 6 August 2010. Komorowski thus became the second person to serve on two occasions as Polish head of state since 1918, after Maciej Rataj. On 24 May 2015, Komorowski was defeated in the second round by Andrzej Duda in the 2015 presidential election. As a result, Komorowski was succeeded by Duda on 6 August 2015.

Komorowski was the only president of the Third Polish Republic not to experience a cohabitation while in office.