Sunday, October 23, 2005

Exit Polls of the Presidential Runoff Vote


I guess the right wing socialist wins after all. When I talked to Aunt Wanda in Warsaw this morning, and she told me that she and all the other pensioners in her building voted for Lech Kaczyński, I agreed I would probably have done the same in her position. There's a slight chance that he and his twin brother Jarosław will try to buy popular support by some funding of social programs and pensions. But in the long run I am not optimistic. Lech was not effective as the mayor of Warsaw, so there's little hope he'll be much good as President. I'll bet you anything that in the next few weeks we'll hear that the PiS have decided to take his brother as prime minister after all.

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