Komorowski (left) with Kaczynski. Photo - east news

Following the court ruling that presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski must apologise for misrepresenting his rival Bronislaw Komorowski’s position on health care, the Kaczynski campaign team has suggested a TV debate between the two on the future of Poland’s health care service.

The Warsaw court ruled yesterday that Jaroslaw Kaczynski had said an untruth when he accused Komorowski and his party Civic Platform of wanting to privatise Poland’s health care services.

Now Kaczynski has proposed a debate, to be transmitted Friday evening, on health policy.

“We believe that Poles have the right to know how the two most serious candidates envisage [the future] of the health service,” said Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska from the Kaczynski campaign team.

Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, at the Komorowski election campaign HQ said her candidate welcomed such a debate but on two conditions. “First, the court ordered [Kaczynski] say the word ‘sorry’; and second, the debate should not only be about health but also other topics,” including, she said, education and foreign policy.

Although the court ruling included the demand that Kaczynski apologise for misrepresenting Komorowski’s health care policy, the Law and Justice candidate has yet to do so and said that they will appeal the verdict.

The election campaign is in its last two days as ‘election silence’ will begin on midnight Friday night, Saturday morning when campaigning must stop.

The first round of the presidential elections take place on Sunday, June 20, with ten candidates in the race for the presidential palace. (pg)

For more on our election coverage check out our Poland Decides election page special.

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