Kaczyński: an exile in residence

Published on 15 April 2011 at 11:37

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Jarosław Kaczyński is "PM of the 4th Republic in political exile", headlines Polska The Times. According to the Warsaw daily, the leader of Poland's main opposition the Law and Justice party (PiS), "has gone to war” as his country is poised to take the head of EU’s rotating presidency. In a move that triggers this autumn’s parliamentary election campaign, Kaczyński is seeking to “delegitimize government and president". Polska The Times adds that he “either doesn’t appear at major debates in the parliament, or conspicuously leaves just after speaking, he has refused an invitation to a National Security Council.” Having openly declared that he will never shake hands with President Komorowski, the PiS leader has stated that the victims of the Smoleńsk crash of 10 April 2010, in which his twin brother President Lech Kaczyński was killed, were "betrayed at the break of dawn". He is "[d]estroying the credibility of state institutions, he undermines democracy", complains political scientist Kazimierz Kik to the Warsaw daily.

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