Andrzej Sebastian Duda [ a ] born 16 May is a Polish lawyer and politician who has been the sixth and current president of Poland since Duda was the presidential candidate for the Law and Justice party PiS during the presidential election in May In the first round of voting, he received 5,, votes — In the second round of voting, he received On 26 May , Duda resigned his party membership as the president-elect.
On 24 October , he received the official support of PiS ahead of his re-election campaign in Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February , Duda has played an important role in coordinating international efforts to support Ukraine's military. In , he was appointed as a research assistant in the Department of Administrative Law of the Jagiellonian University's Faculty of Law and Administration.
Due to his political career, he has been mostly on unpaid leave from the university since September , except for a month interval beginning in September , when he returned to the university. Duda began his political career with the now defunct Freedom Union Party in the early s. After the parliamentary elections in , he began his collaboration with the Law and Justice Party PiS. In September , the news magazine Polityka commended Duda for being one of the most active members of parliament, describing him as being open to opposition arguments and as refraining from personal attacks, as part of his role at the Commission for Constitutional Responsibility.
Duda was Komorowski's Law and Justice rival in the election. In the first round of the presidential election , Duda came first, receiving 5,, votes and thus In the second round Duda took The second round took place on 12 July. The first five-year term of Andrzej Duda began on 6 August with taking an oath of office during a National Assembly session. Duda rejected the European Union 's proposal of migrant quotas to redistribute asylum seekers , saying: "I won't agree to a dictate of the strong.
I won't back a Europe where the economic advantage of the size of a population will be a reason to force solutions on other countries regardless of their national interests". In September Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz declared that Poland, as an expression of "European solidarity", would take in 2, people over the next two years, mainly from Syria and Eritrea out of 3, originally requested.
