Komorowski or Sikorski: it is rank-and-file Civic Platform members who will decide who will face Lech Kaczyński in the presidential race.

Michał Kubicki reports

The choice is between the fifty seven year-old Speaker of Parliament Bronislaw Komorowski, a veteran of the Solidarity movement and a member of Parliament since the collapse of communism, and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, ten years younger and a far more colourful personality, if only because of his Oxford University diploma and a stint as a war correspondent in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Both describe themselves as modern conservatives.