Tymiński is back for a second try and is challenging Self-Defense

Yesterday, during a meeting in Warsaw he announced his program, which unexpectedly matches the one of Andrzej Lepper's Self-Defense and is directed to the same poorly educated rural electorate. Among the key points in Tymiński's program are the liquidation of the present political scene, amnesty for perpetrators who committed crimes during the past 15 years and readiness to work with all parties. Tymiński does not want to fight with other candidates, but rather to present a separate alternative for Poland. Tymiński has a weak political base as the OKO party which is backing him barely received 0.6% of the vote in the elections to the European Parliament in 2004. Tymiński labeled "the man form nowhere" made his name in back in 1990 when he suddenly appeared on the political scene and managed knock aside political heavyweights to make it to the second [final] round of presidential election in a run off against Lech Wałęsa. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) M.G.