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...became a spur as hundreds of thousands of mainly younger voters turned out to repudiate the populist political style of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose Law and Justice Party (PIS) was defeated after just two years in office. The turnout was especially high in larger cities such as Krakow, Gdansk and the capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform...
...most likely candidate to become Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, comes from a small ethnic group known as Kaszebe (Kashubians) from the region around Gdansk on the Baltic coast. Like many Polish politicians, he is a veteran of the Solidarity trade union movement; he joined its student wing as a young history student, and as a result was forced to work as a manual laborer under martial law. Tusk is a familiar figure in the country's post-communist era, having served as deputy speaker of the Senate from 1997 to 2001 and as deputy speaker of the more powerful lower...
...Poland, where relations with Germany have rarely been cordial and where ties have deteriorated in recent years, the news was seized on by leading right-wing politicians to condemn him. Grass last year wrote Walesa and the mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamwicz, to explain why he had taken so long to admit the full details of his war record. He said it had taken him until his later years to find the right formula to discuss his decision. "It's only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective...
...Thursday, the German author of The Tin Drum and other novels walked through the streets of the old Hanseatic League town and met with Walesa in the evening. Residents crowded the route and many appeared anxious to welcome him back . One of those greeting him was Gdansk novelist Pawel Huelle, who praised the German writer for his intellectual contributions as well as for his frequent public statements that Germany had no claim on lands lost to Poland in the war. "For all his life Grass has been against erasing memory, erasing history and putting responsibility just on history and Adolf...
...everyone shares Michnik's appreciation of Grass. One nationalist newspaper columnist called Grass a "cheater," while deputies with the ruling nationalist Law and Justice Party boycotted the Gdansk celebration and decried the $100,000 spent by the city on the event. The ruling party led by the twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which faces the voters two weeks from now, has stressed Poland's suffering at the hands of Germany during the war, and relations between the two countries have chilled during their two years in power. But Gdansk appears more willing to both remember and forgive...