Former Presidents
Since former Presidents of Poland are for the most part well-known, public figures (quite often of celebrity status) each of them is entitled to lifetime personal protection (though only within state limits) by Biuro Ochrony Rządu officers, in addition to receiving a substantial pension and being given a private office.
As of 2012, three former Presidents of Poland are alive:
Also, three former Acting Presidents are alive:
- Bronisław Komorowski (2010, currently also President)
- Bogdan Borusewicz (2010)
- Grzegorz Schetyna (2010)
On 10 April 2010, two Presidents of Poland, Lech Kaczyński (current at that time) and Ryszard Kaczorowski, died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)