Sunday, October 23, 2005
Lech Kaczy?ski has been elected as the new president of the Republic of Poland, according to first polls. He gained about 53,7% of votes, while his rival, Donald Tusk gained 46,3% in the run-off Polish presidential election.
In the first turn Kaczy?ski from Law and Justice party gained about 34% of votes, while his main rival attracted about 37% of polish society.
Kaczy?ski, nicknamed “the duck”, will replace Aleksander Kwasniewski, who was ineligible to be elected again, as he was the president of Poland for ten years.
Kaczy?ski, 56-year-old lawyer and mayor of Warsaw, would like to build up the next Republic of Poland, called “Czwarta Rzeczpospolita” (4th Republic of Poland). Many people in Poland believe that Kaczy?ski, alongside his twin brother Jaros?aw, will try to throw out corruption and dishonesty from Polish politics.
Pre-election polls had predicted that pro-business Donald Tusk, the leader of conservative-liberal party Citizens Platform, would win the election.