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Warsaw's presidential palace - Poles do not want two brothers to fill both top jobs (Photo: European Commission)

Surprise as economist named to lead Poland

In a surprise move, the conservative winner of last Sunday’s Polish elections, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has proposed physics and economics expert Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the new Polish prime minister – refraining from taking the tob job himself.

Mr Kaczynski’s right-leaning Law and Justice party on Sunday won a convincing victory in the country’s general elections, winning 26.7 percent of the votes, ahead of the centre-right Civic Platform which ended up gaining 24.1 percent.

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Warsaw's presidential palace - Poles do not want two brothers to fill both top jobs (Photo: European Commission)

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