"Komorowski’s victory is welcome news for leaders in Berlin, Moscow, and Brussels. Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a noted nationalist and has been reluctant to adopt the euro currency or to cede much sovereignty to the EU. When he was prime minister, his government clashed frequently with officials in Brussels"
And now his brother is dead and he is out, huh?
Yeah, see who won, cui bono?
"Top challenger bows to Poland’s acting president" by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times | July 5, 2010
WARSAW — Poland’s acting president yesterday appeared to have fended off a stiff electoral challenge from the twin brother of the leader who died in a plane crash in April.
“I congratulate the victor,’’ Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the former president, Lech Kaczynski, said in a concession speech to the acting president, Bronislaw Komorowski.
Final results from the election commission are not expected until today. With the official tally of votes incomplete, some of Kaczynski’s supporters expressed hope that his concession might have been premature. But Polish public television projected that Komorowski, the governing party’s candidate and the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, would win with 53.1 percent of the vote, with Kaczynski, a former prime minister, at 46.9 percent....
If the preliminary result holds up, it would mark a significant victory for the country’s governing party, Civic Platform, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
With a member of his party controlling the presidency, Tusk no longer faces the constant threat of a presidential veto in enacting his agenda of economic changes, including privatizing state-owned enterprises and cutting government spending as part of a bid to join the group of countries using the euro currency....
When that globalist PoS is sinking like stone?
And now I am REALLY STARTING to WONDER about that plane crash!
But the tight vote also illustrated how politically polarized the Polish people remain. Urban voters tend to support Civic Platform and its agenda of economic liberalization. Rural voters and the most religious support the more nationalist Kaczynski and his Law and Justice Party.
“It is the presidential elections that tend to divide Poland in the worst way possible,’’ said Jaroslaw Flis, a political scientist at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. “It is divided between people who feel morally superior and people who feel intellectually superior.’’
That's how the masters control you.
Starting in 2006, the Kaczynski twins occupied the two most important positions, president and prime minister, in Poland, which is the largest former Communist country to join the European Union and the NATO alliance. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski lost the post of prime minister in 2007 to Tusk, ending the brothers’ unusual dual rule.
The latest election was emotional and unpredictable from the start, when it was moved up by several months after Lech Kaczynski’s death. He and 95 others, including his wife and dozens of top political and military leaders, were traveling to the Katyn forest, where more than 20,000 Polish officers and others were massacred by Stalin’s secret police during World War II.
WARSAW — Bronislaw Komorowski was declared the winner of Poland’s presidential election yesterday, meaning his probusiness Civic Platform party now has a year of control of both the legislature and the presidency before the next parliamentary elections.
Poles chose Komorowski over Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the late president’s twin brother, in a vote seen as a move away from three months of shock, grief, and mourning that followed the death of Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash.
The outcome offers a chance for the Civic Platform to fulfill promises to dismantle some remnants of the communist-era welfare state. It has pledged to attack privileges ranging from permanent sick leave to low taxes for rich farmers in an attempt to prevent the European debt crisis from spreading to Poland.
The Eastern European nation of 38 million people is the largest of the new European Union members and has a vibrant economy that has grown amid the global downturn. But it is still struggling with legacies from its decades of communist rule, including dilapidated infrastructure and large numbers of unemployed who haven’t adjusted well to capitalism — and many of whom draw welfare benefits....
Yup, the SOCIAL SYSTEM must be DISMANTLED!
What GOOD are GOVERNMENTS then?
And WHERE did all the MONEY GO, huh?
Financial investors seek ambitious moves to reduce both the debt and welfare spending....
Investors is MSM speak for BANKERS, folks!!
SO MUCH for that GREAT ECONOMY, Poland!
Among the fiscal reforms that many investors want — and which Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised — are raising the retirement age from 60 for women and 65 for men, and restricting the chance for early retirement for many professions.
Poland made it through the global economic downturn without falling into recession, yet it has seen its jobless rate creep higher — it is now about 12 percent....
That's a "good" economy, huh?
Then the WHOLE SYSTEM is SHIT, sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Komorowski’s victory is welcome news for leaders in Berlin, Moscow, and Brussels. Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a noted nationalist and has been reluctant to adopt the euro currency or to cede much sovereignty to the EU. When he was prime minister, his government clashed frequently with officials in Brussels.
Both Kaczynski twins were suspicious of Germany and Russia and often resurrected for political points the past suffering inflicted on Poland by the large neighboring countries.
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Also see: No Polish Joke
MOSCOW — The most intriguing detail was that two voices not belonging to crew members showed up on the cockpit flight recorders. Officials said it was not clear to whom one of the voices belonged, declined to identify the other person, and didn’t report what either person said....
Edmund Klich, Poland’s envoy to the investigation, said only that “certain suggestions’’ were made by the passengers that he believed had no influence on the plane’s fate, though he acknowledged he had not heard the recordings....
