W służbie etyki przekonań. Marek Jurek jako przywódca partjny

The article aims to analyze the leadership of Marek Jurek - the founder and the chairman of the Prawica Rzeczypospolitej (Republic's Right Wing). The author characterizes Jurek's journey to party leadership, his political convictions, the social-demographic charac-teristics of the leader, the type of leadership he employs, his status in the party structures, and his means of reaching his goals. M. Jurek is also a leader of a party now outside the parliament, the party that strictly refers to the teaching of the Catholic Church. Jurek defines the party as Christian-conservative. Emphasizing such issues as absolute prohibition of abortion, M. Jurek is also against: the legalization of same-sex partnerships, in vitro fertilization, and Poland's accession into the Euro Zone. He can be classified as a intellectually astute leader.