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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Polish president Kaczynski wins party backing to run for 2nd term

Polish President Lech Kaczynski's conservative Law and Justice party says it wants him to run for a second term this autumn.

The party gave the president its backing at a convention Sunday, saying in a resolution that the mission he began when elected in 2005 should continue for the good of Poland.

Law and Justice is a nationalist party that supports a strong social safety net but has conservative moral values. It was founded by Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw.

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