Law And Justice Prevails

Having won 155 seats in the Polish legislature (compared to the PO's 133 and the ex-governing Democratic Left Alliance's 55), the PiS has moved swiftly to nominate Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the party's candidate for prime minister. The choice of Marcinkiewicz came as a major shock to both the PO and external observers alike. It is a well-established political tradition in Poland that the leader of the victorious party at parliamentary elections becomes the country's premier. This supported an expectation that Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the current chairman of the PiS, would accept the prime ministerial nomination on behalf of the party. Although

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