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Place of Birth: Kętrzyn, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
About Krzysztof Kononowicz
- Krzysztof Kononowicz (born January 21, 1963 in Ketrzyn) was a 2006 candidate for the office of mayor of Bialystok during the local elections in Poland.
- He attracted some notoriety for his purposely unsophisticated political advertisement, first aired on local TV and featured heavily on YouTube.In 2006, Krzysztof Kononowicz, a 43-year-old driver-mechanic and pig farmer living with his widowed mother Leonarda, became a candidate of the electoral committee Podlachia of the 21st Century (Podlasie XXI Wieku).
- Several weeks before the elections, Adam Czeczetkowicz, activist of the fringe far-right Polish National Party (supported by the party leader Leszek Bubel), convinced him to run for mayor and make the advertisement.
- Within several days, over 3 million Internet users had seen the commercial on YouTube, posted by Kononowicz's electoral committee.
- The video also made it to Polish national TV.
- Soon merchandise (including the characteristic sweater supposedly belonging to Kononowicz) were being sold on the Internet.Kononowicz won only 1,676 votes (1.9%), but became by far the most remembered person of the 2006 elections, featured as guest in several television shows.
- He became a popular Internet meme in Poland in the late 2006 and early 2007.
- He was also voted "personality of the year" in the poll by the Polish web portal Onet.pl.
- In several interviews, he stated that he wants to be a candidate for the President of Poland at the next election, while Czeczetkowicz's representatives said they wanted him to be a candidate for the post of mayor of Warsaw.It is unclear if Kononowicz himself was aware, in the beginning, that his newly established "popularity" was highly derogatory.
- The leading Polish politician Donald Tusk called him "an unfortunate man".
- Foreign commentators said he was "like Borat, except not acting but the real thing".In March 2007, Kononowicz was accused by his neighbours of abusing his elderly mother.
- Both mother and the son denied the accusations, but the police investigated.
- The investigation ended two months later and Kononowicz was cleared of all charges.He had a small role as a prosecutor in the 2010 movie Ciacho directed by Patryk Vega In December 2018, Kononowicz announced his candidacy for President of Poland
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