Campaign and heartache

30th April 2010

With less than two months to go before the presidential elections, there is much discussion of the way each candidate will handle it.

For many, it seems that the political truce exercised out of respect for the of the 96 killed in the tragedy at Smolensk is over, and normality has resumed as all sides begin to prepare themselves.

Amongst those expressing their wish that the election remains a dignified affair, is former President Aleksander Kwasniewski.

“I trust that Poles will be able to respect the memory of the dead and at the same time compare the policy programmes and personalities of the candidates,” he says.

When pressed for thoughts on the stance the late president’ ...