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WORLD
The period of Donald far more conservative Catholic structure,
Tusk from 2007 until whose political positions arise from the
2014 is considered traditionalism, the non-acceptance of the
a period of Poland’s rights of homosexuals, against the right to
strengthened abortion and revision of the relations in
modernization and the foreign politics. Tusk and Jaroslaw not
Europeanization. only that they managed to make a compro-
The economy mise and settle these differences, they also
almost doubled, and strengthened these positions as a basis
development of social of the diversity between the two parties,
and civilizational whose rivalry is still the main challenge
values was observed. of the Polish society and a main political
The media, although fight in Poland’s plural life. In the inter-
they were aggressive est of the upcoming presidential elections,
and sometimes in order not to threat the position of his
rude, still they were brother Lech in the campaign, Jaroslaw
considered free media Kaczyński waived the opportunity to lead
and they have a role the government and with the formation
of corrector of the of a minority coalition managed to form a
government, including Government which will be headed by Ka-
the most powerful state zimierz Marcinkiewicz, who is still under
televisions and radio complete control by Jaroslaw.
channels
In the presidential elections in 2005, the ferences, Donald Tusk initiated limitation
DOSSIER two greatest rivals, the Party “Law and Jus-
tice”, with its presidential candidate Lech
Kaczyński, and the Party “Civic Platform”,
led by Donald Tusk, who is a presidential
candidate at the same time, had their first
direct conflict as the largest political par-
ties. In the first circle, Donald Tusk had a
leadership with 36.3% of the votes, while
Lech Kaczyński provided support from the
remaining right-wing parties and Catholic
groups which are representatives of the
radical right-wing and managed to pro-
vide 54% of the votes in the second circle
against 46% provided by Donald Tusk. Lech
Kaczyński became a President of Poland,
and a year later Jaroslaw Kaczyński provid-
ed change in the governing coalition group
in the Parliament, and became a Prime
Minister. Until the elections in 2007, the
identical twins, Lech and Jaroslaw, held
the two most important executive func-
tions in the country. In this period, the
differences between the two right-wing
parties became so large that an eventual
future coalition between them was con-
sidered impossible. These differences are
of essential nature about the way how the
Polish country should develop, and they
are leading platforms in the political ar-
ticulation of the Polish society.
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DIVISION OF THE POLISH SOCIETY
In the elections in 2007, Donald Tusk
and the party “Civic Platform” won 41.5% of
the votes wherewith Poland unequivocally
chose the Pro-European option. Together
with the Polish popular party, they formed
a stable majority in the Parliament and
Donald Tusk became a Prime Minister of
Poland. Until 2010 the Polish society func-
tions with cohabitation between Tusk and
Kaczyński, who is the President of Poland,
wherewith the essential differences be-
tween these two political entities came to
the fore, as well as the division of the Polish
society. Many laws, which are an expression
of the political intention of the “Civil Plat-
form” and the Prime Minister Donald Tusk
were given veto by Lech Kaczyński, and also
the differences about the speed and the
spread of the European integration, as well
as the establishment of the European val-
ues came to the fore. Because of these dif-
of the right to veto of the President which
mostly ended unsuccessfully, however this
was an introduction to the so called “the
winner takes it all” doctrine.
The cohabitation ended in 2010, when
Lech Kaczyński died in a plane crash, trav-
elling to Russia in order to mark the mas-
sacre in Katyn Forest, and after this event,
extraordinary presidential elections were
held. Bronislav Komorovski in 2010 was a
President of the Parliament, and after the
death of Lech Kaczyński, he became the
Acting President of Poland. At the elec-
tions he was presidential candidate of the
party “Civic Platform” and he managed
to win the opposing candidate, Jaroslaw
Kaczyński, the brother of the tragically de-
ceased president Lech Kaczyński. Hence, in
2010 Poland entered a period of domination
of the party “Civic Platform”, whose repre-
sentatives have the most important execu-
tive functions in the country, a Prime Min-
ister and a President. In the parliamentary
elections a year later, the party “Civic Plat-
form” repeated the success and until the
end of 2014 it had complete control of the
executive power in the country. The period
of Donald Tusk from 2007 until 2014 is con-
sidered a period of Poland’s strengthened
modernization and Europeanization. The