Well, fuck
Poland just never learns.
Poland learned plenty. Record turnout, the candidate won by a very slim margin. It’s brexit vote all over again - half the country is indoctrinated rednecks. A TV station had statistical data - voting for the right wing candidate was proportional with shittier education. People after universities voted 70% in favour of Trzaskowski. People who only finished grade school voted 70% in favour of Nawrocki. You can guess which group has more idiots in it.
Yeah but close isnt enough, how many more years is it gonna take before polish people learn to vote liberal, pro eu candidate, not some pro putin idiot
They learned in the last Sejm election, but apparently they already forgot what they learned.
In two years the government hardly delivered anything they promised. And not just because Duda was still a president vetoing everything. No surprise people are disappointed.
It was to be expected that the polish government would disappoint to some extent. It’s a coalition of four parties that don’t agree on everything, so it’s to be expected that it’s mostly compromises everyone can kind of live with. But wouldn’t it make more sense then to vote for a president who most likely won’t veto everything, so that the few progressive things the government agrees on can be enacted? If you want progressive politics you vote for progressive parties/people, even if they don’t move stuff forward. At least they don’t move them backwards, so in the next election you can build on a stronger foundation.
Neither does Russia
And in my country, we’re expecting a Babiš-Fiala-Babiš PM situation akin to Trump-Biden-Trump in the US because of the post-Covid recession. At least Babiš didn’t become president in 2023.
How bad is this from an international perspective? Will there be Orban-style EU obstruction? Is he a Putin appeaser?
The immidiate consequences are probably minor.
Yet Poland managed to finally get rid of PiS in government and just two years later they elect another right-wing populist president that will continue the sabotaging and blockading of said government.
So another 2 years of ineffective government (caused by the voters) it is. Probably followed by the narrative of how they really need to get the nationalists back into government as they are the only ones getting anything done (who cares that “anything” mainly means corruption and weakening democracy…).
Nawrocki is anti Putin. The parliament is controlled by liberals, but having a far right president gives the far right veto power. That means the liberals have a hard time passing decent laws. It does not fully block Poland, but it slows everything down and more controversial laws will be vetoed. Controversial laws being everything the far right finds controversial, so a lot of them would be good from a leftist perspective. If PiS wins the next election Poland would move to an Orban style regime again. If the liberals had won, they would have been able to at least slow it down.
There was already until the last parliament elections, where the pro European candidate Donald Tusk won over the PiS, who destructed the state orban style for 8 years. However real reforms were not possible until now, because the PiS president was blocking any law the government was pushing. Now, with these elections everyone hoped the blocking will have an end, but we were proved wrong. This will likely lead to new parliament elections and PiS will continue to destroy the state.
I think PiS is not Russia-friendly, it’s a bit more complicated in Poland. But idk for sure to be honest.
He has badmouthed Putin before so theres that at least.
Poland’s always been pretty right-wing.
Because politicians and media keep them so. Often polls would show that public is more progressive than the lawmakers (e.g. about abortion laws), but the ruling politicians will still say how Polish people are not ready for such ‘radical changes’ or just how ‘wrong’ that is…
Mama Mia!
It really, really is suspicious that those right-wing MAGA Trump Putin guys are always winning on really narrow margins. I can’t recall any election where the “good guy” won like that.
