Jaroslav Kaczynski, the brother of President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in Smolensk on April 10th, looks set to win Sunday’s presidential elections according to many independent polls.

Kaczynski took only one day at the beginning of May to collect the 100,000 signatures required to run for president.

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Poles stood in lines to sign up for Kaczynski as candidate, and when the deadline closed, Kaczynski had collected 1.7 million signatures for his presidential candidacy compared to the only 770,000 collected by his rival Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski.

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Observers say Kaczynski could even win outright on Sunday getting 51% of the votes on the back of growing support from Poles increasingly sceptical of the official version of the events surrounding the Smolensk plane crash.

There has been fierce criticism from across the political spectrum of Prime Minister Donald and Komorowski’s handling of the investigation into the deaths of about 100 top officials, including Poland’s leading army officers and central bank governor, in Smolensk on the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.

A Bilderberg group member and former IMF director Marek Belka was swiftly appointed to replace the murdered central bank governor, and Belka, as expected, has moved the country’s monetary policy in line with the Bilderberg economic policy as a whole for Europe, confirming an IMF credit line and strengthening the zloty.

The Bilderberg group hope to see a new round of „reforms“ implemented, including the introduction of the euro, budget cuts, labour market reforms to loosen worker’s rights, job cuts among public sector workers to generate more tax revenue for bank interest payments.

In addition, the large-scale privatisation of Polish assets has started.

Lech Kaczynski had vetoed or threatened to veto legislation on slashing welfare and privatisation, and it is speculated this could be one reason why he was killed in the plane crash in Smolensk.

The new Acting President Komorowski has signed into law legislation that Kaczynski refused to sign, including a law giving immunity to a government body set up to identify rogue agents under the communist regime, whose head was also killed in the crash.

If Kaczynski does not get the 50% threshold needed to win in the first round, he will have to contest a second round on July 4th, and most analysts expect him to win the second round. The voters for Janusz Korwin-Mikke, for example, are expected to transfer to him.

Polls currently give Korwin-Mikke, who is campaigning for an investigation into the Smolensk plane crash, 15%.

Kaczynski has climbed in the opinion polls even in the pages of the corporate media.

There are fears, however, that the elections will be rigged in a last ditch bid by the Bilderberg group to plunder the country, and Poles are being urged to remain vigilant and use video cameras and mobile phone to record any evidence of fraud.