Photo Gallery Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Dwindling Fortunes

Jaroslaw Kaczynski seems to have lost his political edge after the death of his twin brother, the late President Lech Kaczynski. Once a razor-sharp politician, the former prime minister's fortunes appear to be waning as Poles grow weary of Kaczynski's paranoid rhetoric about the causes of his brother's plane crash.
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Since the death of his twin brother in the Smolensk disaster, Jaroslaw Kaczynski appears to have lost his political instinct. Current polls predict that Kaczynski's Law and Justice party will receive between 20 and 30 percent of the vote in the upcoming Polish parliamentary elections on October 9. Here, Kaczynski addresses supporters (July 2010 photo).

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The last President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria are seen in Chicago in this 2007 photo: The couple was on board a plane together with a high-ranking Polish government delegation when it crashed on April 10, 2010, in heavy fog in Smolensk, Russia.

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The brothers, seen here in an 1989 photo, founded the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party (PiS). In 2005, the twins won first the parliamentary election and then the presidency, giving them Poland's two highest political offices and forming probably the most bizarre political team in Europe. Journalist Adam Michnik once referred to the Kaczynski twins as a "two-man party."

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The incumbent Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is Kaczynski's main opponent in the upcoming election. Seen here talking to reporters in Warsaw on Sept. 26, Tusk looks to be headed toward victory with his center-right Civic Platform.

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An outpouring of grief washed across Poland after word of the plane crash got out. Here, flower-strewn hearses transport the bodies of the late president and his wife Maria to St. Mary's Basilica in Krakow, Poland, on April 18, 2010.

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Since the death of his brother Lech, it has become even clearer that Jaroslaw Kaczynski is much less effective politically without him. Much of what he says fails to ring true, and he can't seem to find his way into the mainstream. This April 12, 2010 photo shows a spontaneous tribute outside the Polish Embassy in Berlin.

Foto: Robert Schlesinger/ dpa