Gov’t pays tribute to late Polish president
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
18.06.2019 16:27
Poland’s premier and a string of top ministers laid flowers at a monument to the late President Lech Kaczyński in Warsaw on Tuesday, on what would have been his 70th birthday.
Jarosław Kaczyński lays flowers at a Warsaw monument to his late twin brother
PAP/Rafał Guz
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was accompanied at the ceremony by top officials including the country’s defence, interior, foreign, finance and justice ministers.
On Tuesday evening, a special mass was scheduled to be held at the historic Wawel Cathedral in the southern city of Kraków.
It was expected to be attended by President Andrzej Duda and Jarosław Kaczyński, the head of Poland’s ruling conservatives and the twin brother of Lech Kaczyński, state news agency PAP reported.
Lech Kaczyński died in the 2010 crash of his presidential plane near Smolensk, western Russia.
The crash, which also killed 95 others aboard, scarred the national psyche and is still a source of controversy and recrimination in Poland.
(pk/gs)
Source: PAP