You know, all these journalists' comments about Kaczynski's stance on death penalty and its alleged influence on Poland's position within EU are either symptom of lack of knowledge, or just bad attitude towards conservative Kaczynski in general (like towards Bush).
Kaczynski actually supports bringing death penalty back to Polish criminal law. But he's stated many times, that he'd do it, if it was possible within the frames of current legal system.
And he's fully aware it's not possible if Poland wants to stay within EU (and he wants to stay).
So those are just his views, shared by majority of the Poles.
You know, all these journalists' comments about Kaczynski's stance on death penalty and its alleged influence on Poland's position within EU are either symptom of lack of knowledge, or just bad attitude towards conservative Kaczynski in general (like towards Bush). Yep! Journalists always had bad manners. It is their job to exaggerate to sell more copies of their newspapers. The thing is, that the real information has to get through to the people. Due to our state owned TV (ARD/ZDF) this is not always the case in Germany, although somebody interested can get all nessecary infos out of the very good German newspapers (i.e. DIE WELT, FAZ). The FAZ gave a much more balanced picture of Kaczynski than the ARD i.e..
Kaczynski actually supports bringing death penalty back to Polish criminal law. But he's stated many times, that he'd do it, if it was possible within the frames of current legal system. And he's fully aware it's not possible if Poland wants to stay within EU (and he wants to stay). So those are just his views, shared by majority of the Poles.
So this is nothing but hot air... Same old story.