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 president scales down homophobic rhetoric as election nears
theguardian.comattacks on “LGBT ideology” during his re-election campaign drew widespread criticism.Duda, who will travel to the White House next week aiming to receive a pre-election boost from Donald Trump just four days before the vote, made a campaign pledge to “defend children from LGBT ideology”, which he has claimed could be “even more destructive” than communist ideology.In the most homophobic outburst so far, Przemysław Czarnek, an MP from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and member of Duda’s.
