100 days of Tusk

Poland's right-liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been in office for one hundred days. In a commentary, political scientist Rafał Matyja suggests that Tusk has positioned himself well for the presidential elections of 2010, through his ongoing conflict with right-conservative President Lech Kaczyński. "Tusk and his office have discovered that you can ensure public support by starting dozens of arguments with the office of the president. On one hand, it makes it possible to start a presidential campaign without having to announce it as such. … On the other hand, the baseless conflicts provide a wonderful distraction from the uncomfortable topics that would otherwise occupy the press. It may not improve the image of the government when it argues over when a fax was sent, the form of an invitation to the presidential palace, or the particular phrasing used by some spin doctor or other, but it turns attention away from important subjects."

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