Poles Fear Political Twins (Pres. and P.M.) Will Double Drift to Right

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Poles Fear Political Twins Will Double Drift to the Right
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: July 19, 2006


....“His approach is to first destroy and then think about what to build,” (Lech) Walesa said of the country’s current president, Lech Kaczynski, who served as Mr. Walesa’s national security chief.

That sums up a growing consensus that has rippled across this still fledgling democracy in the days since Mr. Kaczynski appointed his twin brother, Jaroslaw, to the post of prime minister earlier this month. Many Poles see the twins’ leadership as consolidating a shift toward right-wing, nationalist politics that has polarized the country between older, less educated rural voters who elected Mr. Kaczynski and the younger, educated urban voters who largely oppose him....

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A poll this month by the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza found just 21 percent of people questioned saw Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s appointment as a positive move....

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(The twins) say their hero is Jozef Pilsudski, the Polish field marshal who resurrected the Polish state in 1918, but later, disillusioned with partisan quarrels, seized power in a 1926 coup and ruled as dictator until his death in 1935. The Polish press has made much of the inevitable comparisons.

Many people see the appointment of President Kaczynski’s brother as prime minister as a step toward the so-called Fourth Republic that the twin brothers have said they want to build. The Fourth Republic would purge former Communists from the corridors of power and concentrate power in the hands of the president....


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/world/europe/19poland.html?_r=1&oref=login

[David__77]

1. Pilsudski was a fascist.

These twins are fascists too. The EU will have make some decisions about Poland.