Bronislaw Komorowski, the pro-European Civic Platform candidate, carried the second round of the presidential elections in Poland, on 4 July, with 52.63% of the votes, beating his adversary from the Eurosceptic party PiS, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who scored 47.37%. The election followed the aircraft accident, on 10 April in Russia, that was fatal to President Lech Kaczynski (Jaroslaw’s twin brother), his wife and 94 other people, including many senior political and military officials. Komorowski’s victory marks the end of a difficult coexistence between the Liberal government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Conservative opposition represented by Lech Kaczynski. The head of the European People’s Party (of which the Civic Platform is a member), Belgian national Wilfried Martens, commented that with Komorowski in the presidency and Tusk as head of government, Poland has “credibility and confidence to play a leading role in the EU”.