The failures Poland faced in applying the law of the secret personal records are a forecast of the Romanian electoral autumn. Whoever might glance at the Polish actualities will surely be surprised by the flagrant similarities between the political life in Poland and the one in Romania. Just like the Romanians, the Polish are to go to the polls this autumn (only for the presidential elections, the general ones being postponed), and the debates risen by the approaching elections sound just like ours. On the political stage, the conflict between "the pragmatic" and "the moral" - that is between those dealing exclusively with the economical reform and those focusing on the moral reform, the one that could only follow the revealing and the condemnation of the communism sins - gets more and more acute. Thirteen presidential candidates parade the collected signatures and ask for the electorate's votes. Among them, Aleksandr Kwasniewski, the incumbent President and ex-communist leader, significantly stands out. As it generally happened after 1989, the electorate belonging to the political right is fragmented, the heap of parties and presidential candidates being unable to form stable coalitions to oppose the left. The electoral calculations are troubled by a surprise-candidate, placed on the second position in the pools, Andrzej Olechowsky, a Polish variant of Mugur Isarescu, a character that one could hardly range among the others, from a political point of view, and who openly admits only the intellectual liberal support. The political confusion, the law standard of life, the unemployment rate, the lack of social assistance, the famous scandals on the privatization processes, all these are part of a picture strikingly resembling the Romanian one (though in Poland the economic parameters are, beyond question, much better). Just like in Romania, again, the law of the access