In that poll, the ruling centre-right Civic Platform will face a strong challenge from the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) associated with Jarosław Kaczyński and his late identical twin and former president, Lech.
The road from Lech to Zug is calm and friendly; Albona is more exposed.
Indeed, PiS looks like a one-man band, and Mr Kaczynski insists that foul play was behind the plane crash in Russia that two years ago killed his brother Lech, then Poland's president.
He was the less prominent of the twins: their all-but-identical appearance (Lech had a mole on his cheek; Jaroslaw did not) belied big differences.
Lech was the younger and shyer, Jaroslaw the brainier, the bossier and the mastermind of the Law and Justice party (PiS in its Polish acronym) which they founded in 2001.A surprise victor in 2005, Lech Kaczynski proved an uneasy president.
Before his election Lech (like his brother) displayed scant interest in them.
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See articlePoland acquired a new prime minister: Jaroslaw Kaczynksi, leader of the Law and Justice party and twin brother of the president, Lech.
Some in his Law and Justice party blame Russian dirty deeds for the plane crash in Smolensk in April that killed his brother Lech, the Polish president, and scores of aides and officials.
Weekend guests at Lech Kaczynski's presidential retreat on Poland's Baltic coast often found the conversation turning to the opposition politics of 1970s Gdansk.That is indeed a fascinating subject, though not necessarily the most burning one for the head of state of eastern Europe's most important country nearly 40 years later.
The event was overshadowed by a row over the authorities' wish to remove a cross placed in front of the presidential palace to commemorate the death of Lech Kaczynski, the previous president, in an air crash in April.Russia announced that it had deployed an air-defence system in Abkhazia, a breakaway territory of Georgia that declared independence after the Russia-Georgia war of 2008.
