Speaking for the first time since the inauguration of President Komorowski, losing candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski has explained why he did not turn up to the ceremony on Friday.

Despite being invited, leader of the Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said he did not attend the swearing in ceremony in front of both houses of parliament because the new presidency was the outcome of his brother’s death on 10 April and that was why he could not treat it as a “feast of democracy”.

“But there were other reasons,” he told the Law and Justice party web site.

He also recalled some quotes by Bronisław Komorowski which had criticised his late brother.

Kaczynski is also particularly annoyed about statements made by maverick Civic Platform MP Janusz Palikot, who has continued his criticisms of Lech Kaczynski even in death, alleging that the late president was partly responsible for the plane crash in Smolensk which killed 96 people.

“Mr. Komorowski is a promoter and friend of Palikot [who is] a destroyer of Polish political life," Kaczynski said, bitterly.

He also said that on grounds of Mr.Komorowski’s achievements to date he was “not optimistic” about the results of his presidency, referring to the controversy over the cross in front of the Presidential Palace, which Kaczynski said should “stay where it is” for now. (pg/ek)

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