2. Czy niesprawiedliwa i niemoralna amerykanska wojna z narkotykami zostanie zakonczona na terytorium Polski? (reforma praw narkotykowych).
3. Czy szlachta i jej potomkowie otrzymaja rekompensaty za utracone mienie w okresie zaborow i okupacji Polski? (prawa odszkodowawczo-prywatyzacyjne).
4. Czy Zabuzanie doczekaja sie sprawiedliwosci dziejowej? (prawa rekompensacyjne).
5. Czy emigracja polityczna z PRL-u zostanie przeproszona, odzyska swoje prawa obywatelskie i utracone mienie? (prawa reprywatyzacyjne).
"Stany Zjednoczone przewodza dzis gospodarczo i militarnie, ale nie politycznie ani nie moralnie" - Lech Walesa w Kongresie USA ("W Kongresie USA na czesc Solidarnosci", GAZETA 185, 27 wrzesnia 2005).
Twins may run Poland
as president and PM
BY MATTHEW DAY
WARSAW * They may have spent their teenage years throwing punches at one another, but Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski - who may soon govern Poland as president and prime minister - are good boys at heart, according to their mother.
Nicknamed "Kaczory" (the ducks), the stout and now greying 56-year-old twins shot to fame as child actors in the 1962 Polish movie The Two Who Stole the Moon. As teens, their hobby was fist-fighting. "They were a bit naughty as children but they are good boys," Jadwiga Kaczynski, a diminutive woman in her eighties, told reporters after the weekend victory of Jaroslaw's Law and Justice party.
The victory increases the likelihood Jaroslaw will become prime minister. His brother Lech will then contest the Oct. 9 presidential election, facing off against Donald Tusk, leader of a probusiness party the Kaczynskis may ultimately find themselves in alliance with.
Jaroslaw, older by 45 minutes than Lech, is a bachelor who lives with his mother and their cats. His brother, the Mayor of Warsaw, is married with a grown-up daughter. Their promises of a "moral revolution" after four years of leftist rule could sound ominous to many Poles, while financial markets sold the Polish zloty yesterday fearing their untested ability to implement reforms.
They have also drawn criticism from Poland's small gay rights movement after Lech banned their demonstrations in Warsaw, while Jaroslaw has suggested banning homosexuals from teaching jobs. But their tough image softens when mother Jadwiga ia around. On Sunday, she and Jaroslaw voted together in a Warsaw polling station. When Jaroslaw emerged alone to meet party activists and journalists, he had a falsh of panic on his face.
"Where is Mum?" he quipped as she was no longer at his side after leaving discreetly through the back door. If the twins, who rarely appear in public together, do claim Poland's two highest seats of office, it would be a remarkable conclusion to an odyssey that began in 1962 when they first came to the public eye. They played adorable blond moppets who feature on the movie's posters.
They went to the same school and both studied law at Warsaw University before rising to prominence in the Solidarity trade union during its confrontation with Poland's Communist regime in 1980.
Since the country's return to democracy in 1989, the twins have never strayed from the political limelight, but it was only in 2001, when they teamed up to form Law and Justice, that they became a serious force in politics.
With 90% of the votes counted yesterday, Law and Justice had 26.2% of the vote and Civic Platform 24.2%, giving the two centre-right allies 285 seats in the 460-seat parliament.
"We must rebuild many things in Poland," Jaroslaw said yesterday. "We must restore trust in the state, something that has been highly compromised." With their opinions differing as little as their appearance, the two men have won widespread support through their tough talk of tackling corruption and maintaining the welfare state.
They have also, for the most part, overcome problems caused by being identical twins, a factor that Jaroslaw has described as "not making politics any easier." He recently told a Polish magazine, "We avoid appearing together because of the strong feeling this arouses. A person who is a twin is sometimes suspected of being 'weird.'
"But we do have different temperaments. My brother has the temperament of a state activist and he is excellent in this role."
The Daily Telegraph, with files from Reuters (NATIONAL POST, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005).
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