Andrzej Lepper
| Andrzej Lepper | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | |
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In office 5 May 2006 – 22 September 2006 |
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| Prime Minister |
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Zyta Gilowska |
| Succeeded by | Ludwik Dorn |
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In office 16 October 2006 – 9 July 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Ludwik Dorn |
| Succeeded by | Przemysław Gosiewski |
| Minister of Agriculture | |
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In office 5 May 2006 – 9 July 2007 |
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| Prime Minister |
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Krzysztof Jurgiel |
| Succeeded by | Wojciech Mojzesowicz |
| Deputy Marshal of the Sejm | |
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In office 19 October 2001 – 5 May 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Marek Borowski |
| Succeeded by | Genowefa Wiśniowska |
| Personal details | |
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Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper June 13, 1954 Stowięcino, Poland |
| Died | August 5, 2011 (aged 57) Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Samoobrona RP |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Catholicism |
Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper [ˈandʐɛj ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf ˈlɛppɛr] (13 June 1954 – 5 August 2011) was a Polish politician who was the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland) political party.
He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development between 5 May 2006 and 22 September 2006, and again from 16 October 2006 to 9 July 2007, in the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński. Lepper's civil profession prior to entering politics was farming in the village of Zielnowo, Pomerania. He was a candidate in the Polish presidential election in 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010.
Lepper was born in Stowięcino, a tiny hamlet of roughly 200 people, which has suffered greatly since Poland's transformation to a market-based economy because of its previous reliance on the socialist agricultural system.
A farmer by trade, he did not complete his secondary education at the State Agricultural Technical School in Sypniewo and had no formal higher education. Lepper and his wife Irena have three children. During the period of economic transformation his farm fell into debt and he was on the verge of bankruptcy. He received several "doctor honoris causa" titles from the University of Kiev (Ukraine).
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