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Dead Polish President Identical Twin: Jaroslaw Kaczynski Bid

by NowPublic Staff | April 26, 2010 at 09:43 am

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Jaroslaw Kaczynki, Identical Twin Of Dead Polish President, Lech Kaczynski Bid To Lead Poland

Jaroslaw Kacznyki, the identical twin. of dead Polish President Lech Kaczynski is running for President in the upcoming elections in Poland.

Poland is our common, great responsibility. It demands that we overcome personal suffering to take action despite a personal tragedy," Kaczynski said in a statement on the website of his Law and Justice party.

"This is why I have taken the decision to be a candidate for the office of president of the Republic of Poland."

President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash in Russia on April 10 along with 95 other people, mostly senior government ministers and officials.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski was the leader of the opposition in Parliament, head of the the conservative law and justice part, PiS. Kaczynski was Prime Minister from 2006-2007. Jaroslaw Kaczynski was active in the Solidarity movement in the early 19880s and helped create the PiS party with his brother Lech.

The party is conservative on social and moral issues but left-leaning on the economy, favoring more state spending and opposing privatisation. PiS is skeptical about further European integration and opposes Poland's early adoption of the euro. Jaroslaw Kaczynski keeps tight control of his party, which lags PO by more than 10 percentage points in opinion polls.