Jarosław Giziński on the sad trauma of the Polish opposition

Politics in Poland is still overshadowed by the air crash near Smolensk, the foreign affairs editor of Newsweek Polska Jarosław Giziński writes in the conservative weekly Heti Válasz: "Although the Smolensk plane crash happened more than three months ago, the trauma won't go away. ... The Law and Justice Party (PiS), which lost 'its president' Lech Kaczyński and numerous prominent politicians in the accident, can't get over the shock. All the more so because the twin brother of the former head of state lost to the candidate of the governing party Civic Platform Bronisław Komorowski in the presidential elections in July. In the eyes of the opposition PiS that is unjust, for wouldn't a victory for Jarosław Kaczyński have 'compensated' the nationalist-Catholic Right for their loss? ... Although there has so far been nothing to indicate that this was an assassination, conspiracy theories are circulating among the supporters of the former president. They are convinced that the victims of the plane crash, or rather the 'fallen' are really 'martyrs' murdered by their political opponents."

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