Co pokaże Komorowski
J. Kurski, Gazeta Wyborcza
July 9 2010

Komorowski’s victory has been rather laboured. The Civic Platform candidate did not expect so many attacks against him from the Polish public television, from Radio Maryja, nor the highly unbalanced support in favour of Jarosław Kaczyński by Solidarność, nor, last of all, an electoral agitation by many hierarchs of the Catholic Church (and yet even Komorowski had been an anti-Communist opponent, member of the movement of Wałęsa and fervent Catholic). The tragedy of Smoleńsk, however, seems to have made the pre-existing divisions more acute: the PiS bastion, which before 10th April 2010 seemed to be destined to self-destruction, after the catastrophe earned the myth of Wawel, the myth of the martyr’s death and the myth of “making executive the will of Lech Kaczyński.” The new “Fair Poland,” or the Poland of the “Solidarity 2010,” has had to clash with the rest of the country that – whether they liked it or not – has had to be content with voting for the only other important candidate, Komorowski. Both the candidates have realised, however, the importance held by the Left-wing electorate and have taken steps to please it - Komorowski by dealing with the issue of the female quotas and artificial insemination, Kaczyński by praising the Governments of his old Communist enemy Edward Gierek. After Komorowski’s victory, this opening will, however, become the starting point for the Civic Platform to show in a short time that it is a true reformist party, open to the postulates of European democracy; otherwise Tusk’s Party might risk losing the upcoming parliamentary elections.