Acting President of Poland
The constitution states that the President is an elected office, because of which there is no presidential line of succession. If the President is unable to execute his/her powers and duties, the marshall of the sejm will have the powers of a President for a maximum of 60 days until elections are called.
On 10 April 2010 a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and 94 others including many Polish officials crashed near Smolensk-North Airport in Russia. There were no survivors. Bronisław Komorowski took over acting presidential powers following the incident. On 8 July Bronislaw Komorowski resigned from marshall power after winning the presidential election. According to the constitution, the acting president then became the marshall of senate, Bogdan Borusewicz. In the afternoon Grzegorz Schetyna was elected as a new marshall of the Sejm and he became acting president. Schetyna served as the interim head of state until Komorowski's swearing-in on 6 August.
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