Only if he wanted to break the rules according to the constitution. The gentlemen had no choice in the matter.
What is that you don't understand? It is not a chain in command in the military when one automatically steps in as someone need to be in charge 24/7. He didn't wait for confirmation of the death of the President and took over in a heart-beat and I mean not only nominally but he took p[positive step to practical take over the President office while nobody yet knew for certain what has happened.
I'm not saying that he didn't have the right to do it but I'm saying that your claim he is all duty and no ambition is not true.
By the way he is not a gentleman. Not in my books anyway.
Anyway, good that he did his duty and good that the public confirmed him in this role.
Good for whom? As it is not good for the majority of people in Poland.
He's probably the best person in that role
What role? In that system he is yet another redundant cost paid by Poles for the benefit of the few.
His predecessor LK was an unmitigated disaster and a disgrace to Poland and to Europ
At least he was active in the international politic, giving Poland an active factor in the world of diplomacy. He practically helped to enure Georgian independence for the time being.
Now Poland is just a yes-man for others.
AK was ok but the alcohol was an issue a
AK should end up in jail where he belongs.
LW started off well but became increasingly reactionary and wasn't good at standing up to the church.
Standing up to the church? WTF? What it has to do with anything? Is that your criteria of a good President or a politician? Those are good who support your radical views and bias?
He wasn't good because he is one uneducated twit and poser whose only title to be somebody in the politics was being a front-man for that clique that took over Poland after formal-end of the Soviet occupation.