Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tragedy sets tone in race for new Polish president



VANESSA GERA Associated Press Writer= WARSAW, Poland (AP) — National tragedy has set the stage in Poland for a presidential election whose outcome could shape the country's direction on issues like the adoption of the euro, welfare reform and even its mission in Afghanistan. Two months after President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash along with 95 others, Poles vote Sunday in an early presidential election to choose his successor. The two main contenders are men whose own fates have been altered by that disaster — the president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and Bronislaw Komorowski, the pro-business parliament speaker thrust by law into the role of acting president....

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