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 the office of Marshal of the Sejm after winning the presidential election . According to the constitution , the acting president then became the Marshal of the Senate , Bogdan Borusewicz . In the afternoon Grzegorz Schetyna was elected as a new Marshal 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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2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
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