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Polish premier: Kaczynski has launched "war of words" with Germany
Oct 5, 2011, 15:15 GMT
Warsaw - Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has launched a 'war of words' with his controversial statements about German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in Warsaw on Wednesday.
'He's starting a war - for now a war of words - with a nation whose good cooperation ... has brought Poland benefits, not losses,' Tusk said.
He added that Kaczynski's statements 'harm the Polish national interest.'
In his new book, The Poland of our Dreams, Kaczynski said Merkel wanted Poland to be 'subordinate'.
He suggested that Merkel had not become chancellor by 'pure chance' - insinuating that the East German secret police had helped her come to power.
The statements come ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday. Tusk's ruling Civic Platform leads Kaczynski's right-wing Law and Justice party in the polls by some 10 percentage points.
Kaczynski is known for his harsh language about Germany and Russia. He has accused both Berlin and Moscow of imperial ambitions.
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