Andrzej Duda

President of Poland

Andrzej Sebastian Duda 16 May 1972 Kraków, Poland

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Incumbent

Not to be confused with Slovak footballer Ondrej Duda. Polish politician, President of Poland Andrzej Sebastian Duda (Polish pronunciation:  ( listen ) ; born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and conservative politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Duda was a member of the Polish Lower House of Parliament (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and served as an MEP from 2014 to 2015. Duda was the presidential candidate for the Law and Justice party (PiS), during the 2015 presidential election in May 2015. In the first round of voting, Duda received 5,179,092 votes – 34.76% of valid votes. In the second round of voting, he officially received 51.55% of the vote, defeating the incumbent president Bronisław Komorowski, who received 48.45% of the vote. On 26 May 2015, Duda resigned his party membership and the European Parliament as the president-elect. On 24 October 2019, he received official support from PiS ahead of his re-election campaign in 2020. He finished first in the first round and then went on to defeat Rafał Trzaskowski in the runoff with 10,440,648 votes or 51.03% of the vote.