The Civic Platform’s Donald Tusk took the lead when many hundreds of thousands of people set out on an election march in Warsaw on 1 October. Photo: Rafal Oleksiewicz / AP
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WARSAW (Aftenposten) The Poles defeated communism. Are they allowed to have right-wing populism on Sunday?
Published: 13/10/2023 14:46
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Imagine if the atmosphere in all of Poland had been like in the coffee shops of liberal Warsaw. Then the government from the national conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) had been swept off the track in the election on Sunday.
But PiS and the tenacious party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski can hold on. The opposition particularly fears that PiS will go into government with the Federation in Poland, an extreme group of young men who are fed up with refugees and Ukraine aid.
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2023-10-13 12:46:34
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