Poland Looks For Its Obama

A growing number of Polish voters and taxpayers were children, or not even born, before 1989 when communism collapsed in Poland. Their emergence means not only a rapid change of the country’s productivity and image.

It also means there’s now demand for a leader with fresh ideas, someone who speaks foreign languages, knows the world, shares the younger age group’s experience of living abroad, and who can relate better with the generation now in its 20s and 30s than with those people’s parents and grandparents whose representatives populate much of the Polish political scene.

In short, the search is on for the Polish version of Barack Obama.

Just a month ago, it seemed like Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was certain to once again grab the imagination of the younger group.

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