The next president of Poland: Kaczynski's twin brother?

The twins had what has been called a near-telepathic understanding. They would finish each other’s sentences. When Lech was President and Jaroslaw was Prime Minister the head of state would sometimes reach for the telephone before it rang, sensing that his twin was trying to make contact.

The depth of Mr Kaczynski’s grief was all too evident when the body of the President arrived in Warsaw. He kneeled, kissed the casket and seemed to be whispering to his dead brother, saying a prayer perhaps or making a vow…

If a President J. Kaczynski follows the late President L. Kaczynski the upbeat talk of a new dawn in Polish-Russian relations will have to be reconsidered. The polls did not look good for the re-election of the President in the weeks before his death but his brother could benefit from a sympathy vote. President Kaczynski, when alive, was seen as a polariser. In death many Poles, even young ones, are wondering whether he was not indeed on the right path: Polish values have to be more stridently defended in a changing world.