Polish twin in presidency bid

JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI, the twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski, said yesterday he would be the candidate of his right-wing opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) in a presidential election.

Poles are due to elect a new president on June 20 following the death of Lech Kaczynski, along with 95 other people, mostly senior Polish officials, in a plane crash in Russia on April 10.

“The tragically curtailed life of the president, the death of Poland’s patriotic elite, means just one thing for us: we must finish their mission,” Kaczynski said in a statement.