One of the most significant political figures of modern Poland is Bronislaw Komarovsky. His biography is replete with many interesting facts related to both social activities and personal life. Let's try to focus on the most basic of them. So, get acquainted: Bronislaw Komarovsky - President of Poland, politician, person.
Childhood and Youth Politics
The future president of Poland, Bronislaw Komarovsky, was born on June 4, 1952 in the small town of Oborniki Slaski, located in the south-west of the country, in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. His father was Sigmund Leon Komarovsky, a famous scientist of his time, and his mother was Jadwiga Shalkovskaya. Both parents belonged to ancient noble families.
In 1957, the Komarovsky family moved to another small Polish town - Yusewuf, and in 1959 - to Pruszkow. In 1966, Bronislav went to the capital, Warsaw, where he graduated from the general lyceum. There, the future president first joined the dissident activities, for which in 1971 he was arrested.
After Bronislaw Komarovsky graduated from the University of Warsaw (Faculty of History) in 1977, he began working in one of the Polish magazines and then teaching history at school.
The beginning of political activity
The future president, as mentioned above, began his political activities with participation in various dissident circles. Since 1980, he joined the well-known opposition organization Solidarity, which was led by Lech Walesa. When a protest movement flared up in Poland in the early 80s, Bronislaw Komarovsky was held in custody for some time - as a person who potentially poses a danger to peace in the state.
However, all this did not prevent him, up to the abolition of the Polish People’s Republic, from publishing one of the opposition magazines, which caused great displeasure of the ruling circles.
On the political Olympus
After in 1989 Poland broke with the communist past and embarked on the path of democratization of society, the political career of Bronislaw Komarovsky sharply went up. Immediately after the proclamation of the Third Republic, he was appointed head of the apparatus of one of the ministries. In 1990, Bronislaw Komarovsky won the post of Deputy Minister of Defense, and the next year he was elected to the Polish parliament. The peak of his government career was 2000, when the hero of our story received the post of Minister of Defense. However, the very next year he was forced to leave her.
After that, Bronislaw Komarovsky joined the Liberal-Conservative party “Civil Platform”, then headed by Donald Tusk. In 2007, he became the speaker of the Polish parliament, where he continued to conduct active work, defending his personal civic position and the interests of the political force that put forward him.
On the way to the presidency
After the tragic death in 2010 in a plane crash near Smolensk of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, according to the Constitution, the powers of the acting head of state passed to the head of parliament, that is, to Bronislav Komarovsky.
At that time, he had a relatively low popularity rating among the electorate. Many experts in the presidential race prophesied victory to the brother of the deceased president - Yaroslav Alexander Kachinsky. Nevertheless, the vigorous activity of the acting head of state ultimately inclined the sympathies of voters in his favor. Thus, in the July 2010 elections, Bronislav Komarovsky was elected president. The biography of the famous Polish politician was replenished with the most significant achievement in his life.
In the presidency
After taking office, Bronislaw Komarovsky began to conduct a course declared before the election. It consisted in the further integration of Poland into the EU structures, as well as in strengthening the country's defense capabilities.
However, just during the presidency of Komarovsky, for a number of objective and subjective reasons, a number of crisis phenomena began to appear in the economy. Also, contradictions between Poland and one of its main economic partners, the Russian Federation, began to accumulate in connection with the global political crisis that arose in 2014. Bronislav Komarovsky himself spoke out rather unflattering about Russia, which only contributed to the growing tension in relations between the countries, reflected in mutual trade sanctions.
All these factors significantly influenced the decrease in the level of popularity of Komarovsky among the population of Poland.
2015 election
The year 2015 was marked in Poland by the next presidential election. The main candidates for the main public office were two people. One of them is Bronislaw Komarovsky, the president of Poland, who is increasingly losing his sympathy for voters, the second is promising politician Andrzej Sebastian Duda, a nominee of the opposition right-wing conservative party, Law and Justice.
According to the results of the first round, Duda left the rest of his competitors behind. The second round, in which the representative of "Law and Justice" defeated Komarovsky, only confirmed the choice of the Poles. Andrzej Duda became the new president of Poland.
Thus ended the presidency of Bronislaw Komarovsky. It was marked by ambiguous and not entirely pleasant events, but, nevertheless, forever entered the modern history of the Polish state.
