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...Polish politics, brings political uncertainty. A presidential election had been due in October but now must be held within two months, according to the constitution. Kaczynski was widely expected to seek another five-year term as president. Opinion polls had suggested he would lose to Tusk's centrist candidate, Bronislaw Komorowski (who, as speaker of the lower house of parliament, will take over the president's duties in the interim, under the terms of Poland's constitution). But Saturday's tragedy may have changed the political picture...
...Kaczynskis have been merciless with their own critics. Even fellow PIS politicians have been sacked for disagreeing with the Prime Minister. When former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek criticized a proposed law that would have required virtually all Polish professionals to declare whether or not they had collaborated with the communist secret police, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he was sullying Poland's good name...
...Polish Senate, which is controlled by the twins' Law and Justice Party and their coalition allies, and coming into effect later this year - puts too much power in the hands of accusers. "It is a violation of the rule of law and the rights of ordinary citizens," Bronislaw Geremek, a leading social historian, who served as an adviser to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, told TIME. "It gives the state and managers the right of deciding the fate of individuals who are unable to defend themselves...
...Bronislaw Geremek...
...deemed vital to the "security of the state." There could be personal, as well as policy, differences, too. There was some early friction last week when Kaczynski said that if the Civic Platform took all the top government posts, there would be no coalition. "A compromise is possible," snapped Bronislaw Komorowski, a senior Civic Platform leader, "but not on the basis of blackmail that someone has a right to this or that post." It was opposition to communism that brought together a disparate group of socialists, free marketeers, intellectuals, dockworkers, lawyers and university professors to found Solidarity a quarter...