This is a man who is passionate about the rule of law, who believes in elections, institutions, negotiations. Whether he can become a popular leader of a peaceful, negotiated revolution, we shall see. But human beings can grow with a great challenge. He made a fine beginning at the post-election victory rally last week. The truth is that we have won this election.
History makes the most unlikely heroes.
Serbia's Dr K may yet be one. Timothy Garton Ash is a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford University, and of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.