Bronislaw Komorowski

Bronislaw Komorowski (57) is the current Speaker of Parliament and has been acting president of Poland since the death of Lech Kaczynski in the Smolensk air disaster.

Son of Count Zygmund Komorowski, he read history at Warsaw University and went on to be active in the Solidarity trade union, for which he was twice imprisoned by the communists.

He was deputy minister of defence between 1990 and 1993 and minister of defence under the Jerzy Buzek government 2000-1.

In 2001 he joined the liberal-conservative Civic Platform party and from 2007 has been speaker in the lower house of parliament (Sejm). He is married with five children.