{"id":5183,"date":"2010-04-14T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:44:06","slug":"poland-sets-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/14\/poland-sets-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland sets presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5184\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/Polish-president-dead-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Polish president dead\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In the wake of the plane crash that killed its president and 95 others, Poland will be staging a presidential <a title=\"election\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63D1YX20100414\" target=\"_blank\">election<\/a> on June 20th.\u00a0 Though protests are growing over where the late president Lech Kaczynski will be buried, international relations Professor <a title=\"Igor Lukes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/lukes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igor Lukes<\/a>, a specialist in Eastern European politics, says in a <em>BU Today<\/em> <a title=\"interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/10828\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> that he\u00a0thinks it will be\u00a0a civil campaign after so much heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I expect the presidential campaign is going to be more gentle and civilized, because in this tragedy, rivals are going to be less vicious. The [late] president and president of the senate despised each other.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Igor Lukes, 617-358-1776, <a href=\"mailto:lukes@bu.edu\">lukes@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the plane crash that killed its president and 95 others, Poland will be staging a presidential election on June 20th.\u00a0 Though protests are growing over where the late president Lech Kaczynski will be buried, international relations Professor Igor Lukes, a specialist in Eastern European politics, says in a BU Today interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2664,2662,2663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}