Tusk and whiskers

摘要

CALM is exotic in Poland, where politics since 1989 has too often fallen on the bizarre side of lively. Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (po) won the 2007 election by promising competence and stability in place of the unpredictable government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, then and now leader of the Law and Justice (pis) party. Four smooth but cautious years followed, and after a dull election campaign, voters had seemed set to reward Mr Tusk on October 9th, making him Poland's first serving prime minister to win re-election.