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.
Polish LGBTQ+ activists arrested
The conflict surrounding LGBTQ+ rights in Poland continues as three activists protesting the anti-LGBTQ+ regime of recently re-elected president Andrzej Duda have been arrested in the country’s capital Warsaw.The LGBTQ+ activists hung rainbow flags off of statues of Jesus Christ, Copernicus, and the famous Warsaw mermaid, which is what led to their arrest.
They also placed pink face masks branding the anarcho-queer symbol on the statues and were charged with desecrating the monuments and offending religious groups.Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has criticised the act and said the statues symbolise values that are important to the Polish population.
