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Aleksander Kwasniewski
Term of Office: since December 23, 1995
Predecessor: Lech Walesa
Date of Birth: November 5, 1954
Place of Birth: Bialogard, Poland
First Lady: Jolanta Kwasniewska
Profession: Journalist
Political Party: former SLD


Aleksander Kwasniewski ( pronounce: Media:Kwasniewski.ogg|[alεk'sandεr kvaɕɲefski]]]) is a Polish politician and currently the President of Poland. Born November 15 1954 in Bialogard. He was an activist of Socialist Union of Polish Students (Socjalistyczny Zwiazek Studentów Polskich, SZSP) and the minister of sports in th 1980s.

He succeeded Lech Walesa as President after winning the 1995 elections. Kwasniewski was elected for his second and final term as president in 2000 (gaining majority of votes already in the first round).

He was also a former leader of the left-wing Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, an heir to the Polish United Workers Party, and later of the Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej. (Democratic Left Alliance)

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[ }|action=edit}} Edit }] Presidents of Poland
Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939) Józef Pilsudski | Gabriel Narutowicz | Maciej Rataj | Stanislaw Wojciechowski | Ignacy Moscicki
Government in Exile (1939 - 1990) Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski | Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz | August Zaleski | Rada Trzech - collective head of state | Stanislaw Ostrowski | Edward Raczynski | Kazimierz Sabbat | Ryszard Kaczorowski
People's Republic of Poland (1944 - 1989) Boleslaw Bierut | since 1947 replaced by Polish Council of State
Republic of Poland (since 1989) Wojciech Jaruzelski | Lech Walesa | Aleksander Kwasniewski


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