Andrzej Sebastian Duda (born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the European Parliament from 2014 to 2015.
Hopes and fears as polarised Poles choose president
channelnewsasia.com"SOMEONE FINALLY VALUES US" Surveys show Duda and Trzaskowski, who are both 48, running neck-and-neck ahead of Sunday's vote.Analysts note that Duda and his populist allies have been deftly courting rural voters who have benefited from PiS social spending on the back of more than a decade of generous EU farm and development subsidies."We're pleased someone finally values us, sees our achievements and potential," said Magda Ciupak, 33, an English teacher and mother of two who runs a farm with her husband and also heads the Godziszow local council."The PiS understood this, while other parties still often see us as backward and ignorant," she said.Although Trzaskowski has vowed to keep popular PiS measures such as child allowance and extra.
