WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A special court in Poland says the late president's twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, did not collaborate with the country's former communist regime and so is clear to run for the presidency.
The Screening Court is obliged to rule on all candidates for president. It made the announcement on Kaczynski’s candidacy Thursday.
The 60year-old former prime minister is running in the June 20 vote to succeed his brother, President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed April 10 in a plane crash. Opinion polls show him trailing the acting president, Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski.
The Kaczynski brothers were oppositionists punished by the communists with a ban on foreign travel, and were advisers to the Solidarity freedom movement that toppled the regime in 1989.
