Bronislaw Komorowski: Second to Duda

... public figures in the Law and Justice party expected this little-known party functionary with modest administrative experience, a member of the lower house of Parliament, and subsequently a deputy of the European Parliament, to win the presidential elections. Criticizing President Komorowski for passivity in shaping the foreign policy agenda with Poland’s immediate neighbors in the first place, Andrzej Duda committed an overtake offside: in the heat of the presidential race he allowed himself to make forceful statements and called for more decisive action, while Bronislaw Komorowski being the President could not afford such politicking. The ...