Bronislaw Komorowski: Second to Duda

... occupational change-over for the European Union). After Donald Tusk took a new job, Civic Platform struggled to find a real charismatic leader for premiership: Eva Kopacz was largely appointed as a temporary and passing figure until the parliamentary elections. Foreign policy issues became grandstand for Komorowski’s main rival Andrzej Duda, who became a sudden but very convenient choice for Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s party. No analysts or political commentators, and few public figures in the Law and Justice party expected this little-known party functionary with modest administrative ...