Poland's election campaign

"This year everything is different," notes Konrad Schuller referring to Donald Tusk's election campaign for the PO: "Tusk adopted a clear stance at an early stage in the campaign. In interviews he unhesitatingly described himself as 'pro-German' (something his advisers considered political suicide two years ago), and in Friday's debate he aggressively defended his liberalism with the argument that the millions of emigrants to Ireland and England are living proof of how many Poles see their future in a free, open-minded environment, rather than in the Kaczynski twins' allegedly 'united' Poland. But in strategic terms the most crucial point is that in contrast to 2005, Tusk has promised never to work together with a party under the Kaczynski brothers' leadership after the elections."

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