Killed Polish President’s Brother to Run for Election in June

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, said on Monday he would be run for president as the candidate for the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS).

Kaczynski is widely expected to sweep to victory at elections on June 20th on the groundswell of growing uneasiness in Poland about the plane crash that killed Lech Kaczynski, two opposition presidential candidates, key opposition party MPs, the central bank governor, the national security chief and the army heads.

The decision by Kaczynski to continue to pursue elected office recalls the behaviour of Robert Kennedy after the assassination of his brother John F Kennedy in 1963, who attempted to regain control of the US’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, from the private bankers.'

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