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...tragic and cursed Katyn again," said former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. "It is a terrible symbol again...
...Polish analysts say the vote represents an unexpectedly forceful rejection of Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the combative style he has brought to Polish politics over the past two years. Even parties that did not do well themselves, such as the left-wing alliance led by former President Aleksander Kwasniewski, which received 12% of the vote, welcomed the result. "I have good news: the [Kaczynskis' self-styled] 'Fourth Republic' has ended," Kwasniewski said after the vote. "The verdict is unquestionable...
...unemployment rate, at 15%, is the worst in the E.U. A stolid business culture does little to attract the brightest and best to the jobs that are available. Experts such as Ryszard Petru, chief economist at Bank BPH, and Witold Orlowski, ex--economic adviser to former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, say the government should cut hiring costs, taxes and social spending. "Whether we will be the second Ireland or the Third World depends very much on the government's policy," Petru says...
...Rokita, leader of the opposition Civic Platform party. The government has courted further controversy by setting up an "anticorruption" police force, controlled by the ruling party, with sweeping powers to probe serving officials and even private citizens. It re-opened an investigation into former (and still popular) President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Meanwhile, Poland's conservative press has declared a small culture war on "liberal" groups including gays, artists and feminists. Example: Kazimiera Szczuka, 39, a literary-talk-show host and prominent feminist, recently made gentle fun of a girl who leads prayers on Radio Maryja by imitating her reedy, childlike voice...
...Tusk, head of the Civic Platform - are both prominent Solidarity figures, and because for the first time since 1989 economics is as important as ideology in determining the outcome. "There's always been a disconnect between politics and the economy," says Witold Orlowski, an adviser to outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski. No party ever gets the blame, for example, for Poland's groaning state finances. But now, Orlowski argues, persuading voters to accept the need for painful structural reforms and a slimmer welfare state "will be the main political task of the new government." Are the two Solidarity veterans...