Przemysław Gosiewski, vice premier from the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), told Polish Radio 1 on Friday morning that Poles would be choosing between a unified post-Solidarity Poland and a liberal post-Communist Poland in the upcoming election on October 21.

Gosiewski appealed to opposition leader Donald Tusk (PO) to make a clear declaration if he wanted an alliance with the the ex-communist Left and Democrats (LiD), but added that he could guess which side of the barricade PO was on based on Tusk’s recent public utterances.

Civic Platform, like Law and Justice, are made up of ex-Solidarity trade union members, and an coalition with ex-communists would be a controversial and potentially risky move for them.

Przemysław Gosiewski said he was optimistic before the Friday-evening debate between PM Jarosław Kaczyński and Tusk and firmly believed Kaczyński would beat Tusk.

Przemysław Gosiewski called PO’s allegations that PiS had misappropriated the assets of its predecessor in the early 1990s, the Centre Alliance (PC). ‘slanderous’.

He also voiced his support for Kaczyński, who has demanded from Tusk and PO that they present evidence for their accusations.

Gosiewski repeated the accusation towards Tusk that his political party had taken money from a charity for children in need and called such practice ‘tasteless’.