Aleksander Kwaśniewski
![Kwaśniewski in 2005](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Aleksander_kwasniewski_konferencja_%28cropped%29.jpg)
He was born in Białogard, attended the University of Gdańsk, and served as the Minister of Sport in the communist government during the 1980s. After the fall of Communism, he became a leader of the centre-left Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, a successor to the former ruling Polish United Workers' Party, and a co-founder of the Democratic Left Alliance.
Kwaśniewski was elected to the presidency in 1995, defeating the incumbent, Lech Wałęsa. He was re-elected to a second and final term as President in 2000 in a decisive first-round victory. In line with a constitutional limit of two terms, his second term ended on 23 December 2005. According to a 2020 poll conducted by ''Rzeczpospolita'', Kwaśniewski was considered the best president in post-1989 history of Poland. Provided by Wikipedia
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