WARSAW — Polish President Andrzej Duda, the leader of the conservative party Law and Justice, was reelected July 16 at the end of the second round … We discuss the last four chaotic years of US politics, what happened in November, and what to expect from the Biden administration. Their problem is now that the PiS is in government, it is spending, and the economy is growing. For many years, PO represented a commonsense liberalism of cutting both spending and taxation. Looking at Poland from the outside, you might imagine that the ultraconservative PiS is confronted by a liberal opposition. PiS played this card — and when Trzaskowski was asked whether he had voted to lower the retirement age, he said he didn’t remember if he’d been an MP when the vote took place back in 2016. If this election was a direct contest between more or less harsh forms of social conservatism and neoliberalism, how do you plan to change the political agenda? In 2019, there was a huge strike by teachers, whose wages were almost frozen even though the economy as a whole was growing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612825.stm, http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/organizations/law-and-justice-party, ‘Forcing Migrants on Nations Will Mean the End of the EU’: Polish President, Polish President: ‘There is No Doubt the Growing Wave of Terrorism is Linked to Migration’, Poland to Vote on EU Membership, Christian Heritage in Proposed Constitution Referendum, https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-32633099, https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Andrzej_Duda&oldid=1636343. The National Electoral Commission said Mr Duda had won 51.2% of the votes. Poland's incumbent President Andrzej Duda has narrowly beaten challenger Rafal Trzaskowski in Sunday's presidential vote. But — like with Paweł Kukiz in 2015 — there was also a dark horse in Szymon Hołownia, an independent who presented himself as a “novel” outsider force and did surprisingly well. We also need to take a stand on LGBT recognition and women’s rights. The electoral result was below our expectations — we had expected to keep our vote from last autumn’s contest. Polish President Andrzej Duda LGBT Communist Party Poland. Andrzej Duda is allied with the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. We’re Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary. [1] He defeated the liberal President Bronisław Komorowski on May 25, 2015 in a runoff election to become the fifth President-elect of Poland since 1990, in a result which, along with smashing Conservative victories in the UK, likely heralds the decline of liberalism both in Poland and in Europe as a whole. Ahead of his reelection on Sunday, Polish president Andrzej Duda claimed that “LGBT ideology” was a threat “worse than Soviet communism.” Together with his homophobic offensive, Duda successfully played on Poles’ fears over the economy — fusing a reactionary culture war with the promise to defend families’ benefits. A majority of Poles accept the need to allow abortion on demand up till twelve weeks, but we are the only party that is openly standing for that; PO accepts the existing “compromise” where it is allowed only in extreme cases like rape and health problems for the mother. It was the same in 2015, when PO left the ground open to PiS’s arguments against immigration, seeking to avoid the issue, and only radical-left party Razem’s Adrian Zandberg actually defended the need to accept refugees. Andrzej Duda has won Poland’s presidential election, after a bitter campaign that laid bare the deep social, cultural and geographical faultlines in the central European nation. This is quite widely used by the governing Right, which attacks its political rivals by making reference to communist ideology or communist ties. Polish president Andrzej Duda, backed by the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS), celebrates with supporters following initial election results during Poland’s … "[4], In 2018, Duda proposed holding several referendums on numerous topics, including whether Polish law superseded "international law", on emphasizing Poland's Christian heritage in the constitution, and whether Poland should remain a member of the EU. In the election campaign, Trzaskowski promised not to take away the PiS programs. Poland's conservative president, Andrzej Duda, won five more years in power July 13 in a close race against the centrist Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski. But for the last fifteen years at least, the presidential election has been particularly difficult, because it is framed as a clash between the incumbent defending the presidency and then the strongest contender. The party has been in a state of turmoil ever since President Andrzej Duda vetoed two judicial reform bills at the end of July. In the 2015 presidential election, it was refugees who were presented as a threat to national security, stability, and culture; this time around, LGBT people played this role. In addition to Polish authorities’ clashes with the European Union over the independence of the judiciary, the campaign was marred by Duda’s harsh attacks on LGBT Poles and the use of the state broadcaster as a mouthpiece for the ruling party. So, in what ways do you expect conflict between Duda and the EU might harshen — and is it all just rhetoric? There is this idea of a “silver bullet” promise to some group that will win you the election; in 2015, this was 500+ for PiS, and this time, for PO, it was the idea of an extra €50 monthly retirement payment for women who have children. This has been a cause of social protests. So, we have to fight to push these issues onto the public agenda, too. irreversible drift away from liberal democracy, How Poland’s Failed Transition Fed the Nationalist Right, Polish Liberals Embraced Austerity — and the Nationalist Right Is Benefiting, “I Didn’t Sit Eight and a Half Years in Jail to Build Capitalism”. We advocate a separation of church and state, also in order to combat the constant problem of pedophile priests. We are promoting an anti-authoritarian vision of society, not just criticizing PiS for interfering in the judicial system and violating the rule of law, but also seeking to rebuild more participatory, autonomous institutions. President Andrzej Duda secures narrow victory after tapping into public homophobia. Last week, Polish president Andrzej Duda, a quintessential representative of this rising nationalist Right, won reelection in a squeaker. Yet this also raises a question of honesty: Can they be trusted, when they say they won’t cut existing programs? There are some people in the government who have begun to criticize these fines and want it to be raised as an important point of Polish relations with the EU, insisting these fines should be withdrawn and claiming that conditions they impose threaten Poland’s national energy security. Duda signed a “charter for the family” banning the promotion of LGBT issues in public institutions and — claiming to protect children from “sexualization” — proposed a constitutional ban on adoption by same-sex couples. But if we got only 2 percent in the presidential elections, does this mean we have lost 10 points since October? Andrzej Duda had won 51.21 per cent after 99.7 per cent of votes were counted ... Duda's supporters gave him and the party credit for making good on … In a recent interview, you mentioned two established but competing visions of social hierarchy. Get a $20 discounted print subscription today! Poland is paying a lot of money in fines to the EU because of our failure to meet environmental targets. PiS also won decisively among workers, taking around 60 percent. Many countries, such as Italy, Hungary, Austria, and the United States, followed Poland in holding elections in which conservative and nationalist forces defeated liberal and establishment parties. And then there’s the problem of energy policy. President Duda remained a member of the Sejm until he was elected to the European Parliament in 2014. While it is not part of our coalition, this organization can be considered our social partner; we cooperate with it and have good mutual respect. President Andrzej Duda beat challenger Rafał Trzaskowski to win a second term as Poland's leader in a weekend run-off vote. Maciej Gdula is a sociologist and MP for Spring in the Polish Sejm. Andrzej Duda (Born 16 May 1972) is the fifth President of Poland. This is also happening despite the fact that some of PiS’s representatives are themselves of communist background — for instance, a judge in the Constitutional Court who was also a judge under martial law in the 1980s. It should be added, however, that PiS is generally strong among the elderly, who tend to have lower qualification levels just because of their age. What explains this? At the same time as accepting such figures, PiS attacks liberals, the Left, and the LGBT community as either communist-connected or representing ideologies it deems similar to Bolshevism. How far is the idea of an incomplete decommunization (“lustration”) and continued “communist threat” an important tool in PiS’s bid to demonize its opponents? After October’s parliamentary elections, Law and Justice was widely portrayed in international media as a “welfarist” party, given its child benefits and the like. All day long, the state broadcaster repeated the message that Trzaskowski comes from the same Civic Platform (PO) party that criticized the government’s “500+” family income-support program and increased the compulsory retirement age, whereas PiS reduced the retirement age and substantially increased the minimum wage. The turnout standing at 68.18 per cent was even higher than in the first round.It ultimately benefited the incumbent, President Andrzej Duda who won with 51.03 per cent of the vote.While the challenger, the Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski received 48.97 per cent of the vote. In fact, this itself drives privatization. I should say that in Poland, the strongest trade unions are among civil servants — teachers and nurses and, right now, the workers in the judiciary. I think if Ziobro becomes head of government, the conflict over the judiciary will be more dramatic, while Morawiecki will be more likely to appease the European Union on this issue. Despite PiS’s welfarist claims, we are criticizing its underinvestment in public services and demanding more spending on teaching staff and the health care system. This is combined with a green agenda much stronger than what the handful of PO-aligned Green MPs are proposing. Andrzej Duda, presidential candidate of the conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party signs flyers as he attends his election meeting in Kruszwica near Inowroclaw - Buy this stock photo and explore similar images at Adobe Stock India Matters. Farmers' protest: Delhi Police to write to Google to nab toolkit makers Covid vaccination for … The Left also benefited from this sense of being an anti-establishment force in October 2019’s parliamentary elections. So, PiS’s approach is not about strengthening public services but creating a bond between voters and the party that’s sending them money. FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020 file photo, Poland's President Andrzej Duda campaigns for his re-election in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish presidential election reached its decisive second round on July 12, as incumbent Andrzej Duda faced off against Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. It is obvious that Law and Justice (PiS) collected the votes of the countryside, where most people voted for Duda. Subscribe in print for $20 today! Andrzej Duda's shock win in Poland's presidential election has capped a rapid rise from backroom obscurity to head of state, and may herald a new political chapter in eastern Europe's biggest economy. We seek not just redistribution but building solidarity and cooperation between social partners — between trade unions and the state, between teachers and parents, between patients and health care officials. Duda, as a member of the Law and Justice Party, represents the conservative and Christian views within Polish politics, supporting free market principles, reducing tax rates, ending government corruption, strengthening national defense, promoting and protecting traditional marriage, restricting abortion, and preventing Communists and former members of the oppressive Stalinist regime that was imposed on Poland from 1945-1989 from serving openly in positions of authority. Duda's election as President, coupled with a smashing Conservative Party victory in the United Kingdom,[6] signaled a decline in liberal power across Europe. Gdula is also an MP for the Wiosna (Spring) party, part of the Lewica (Left) coalition that took forty-nine of 460 seats in October’s parliamentary election. Polish President Andrzej Duda, who was the Law and Justice party's candidate for presidency in 2015 and 2020, stated that "LGBT is not people, it's an ideology which is worse than Communism." The result […]. While Duda’s hard-right Law and Justice Party has dominated Polish politics in recent years, he ultimately edged out the more moderate-conservative Trzaskowksi by a narrow 51 to 49 percent margin. Polish president Andrzej Duda, backed by the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS), celebrates with supporters following initial election results during Poland’s runoff on July 12, 2020 in Pultusk, Poland. Andrzej Duda is a dream candidate for those who want Poland to be just, strong, developing, important in Europe and independent, because that is what we are fighting for today, said the leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party Jarosław Kaczyński during the convention inaugurating the campaign of the president Andrzej Duda for re-election. (Source: Reuters) Polish President Andrzej Duda, a conservative who ran a campaign with homophobic and anti-Semitic overtones, narrowly won a second five-year term in a bitterly fought weekend election, defeating the liberal Warsaw mayor, according to a near-complete count of votes. PiS promises action, but nothing happens; the Church is allowed to self-police and makes only a pretense of doing something about pedophilia. Then there was the “13th pension payment,” an extra month on top of the twelve payments retired people would receive already. So, looking at this map, it is clear that the popular classes granted PiS their support. Then there is the Right’s view of the social hierarchy, based on ethnicity and the exclusion of minorities. This is a less educated electorate, who mainly have an elementary education or went to vocational college. Yet it seems the Polish government is ignoring European rules rather than seeking some kind of split, and Hungary will surely veto any kind of sanctions against it. [2], Duda is skeptical of mass migration and opposes European Union attempts to force Poland to accept refugees. Yet while PiS claimed to uphold the economic interests of the popular classes, they attacked not only the elites who threatened these economic gains but also people belonging to minority groups seen as inferior or alien. Poland’s Far Right Is Distorting the Debate on Welfare — and Winning, Get a $20 discounted print subscription today, The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left. Here, PO is trying to imitate PiS. The average hospital waiting time rose from two months in 2015 to three and a half months in 2019, because money isn’t going into health care: but if people need faster treatment, they can go and buy it from private providers, with their own money. It was immediately discovered that he had, indeed, been in parliament and voted against the reduction. Duda has referred to the European Union as an “imaginary community,” and there are tensions over PiS’s interference with the judiciary. While Duda’s hard-right Law and Justice Party has dominated Polish politics in recent years, he ultimately edged out the more moderate-conservative Trzaskowksi by a narrow 51 to 49 percent margin. Yet taken as a whole, its measures not only seem limited by their family-values ideological framing, but also more aimed at helping out the individual small business owners rather than workers as such. President Andrzej Duda's victory further empowers Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, which has worked to weaken the country's independent judiciary and free press. But we also emphasize that the strengthening of social services must be related to a change of philosophy in the functioning of the state. Was there any debate on the welfare state that went beyond PiS’s own existing measures? But these cash transfers to family budgets are also money that’s not being invested in the health care system or the education system or care policies. But PO are moderate conservatives themselves, and Trzaskowski did not strongly resist this demonization of LGBT people. This page was last modified on 8 April 2020, at 17:12. During the campaign, Duda said “LGBT ideology” was “worse than communism”; we may also remember the 2018 effort to remove twenty-seven supreme court judges on the basis that they were holdovers from the communist era. Already on our list? I think it depends, first of all, on the stability of the government and its own internal development — in particular, whether Mateusz Morawiecki will remain as prime minister or if justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro has ambitions to take on this role. Robert Biedrón stood for Lewica (“Left”) in the first round, but it scored 2.2 percent, finding it much harder to make an impact than in last October’s parliamentary election, where Lewica took 11.2 percent and forty-nine of 460 seats in the Sejm (lower house). Andrzej Duda was the presidential candidate for Law and Justice party, during the presidential election in May 2015. That’s both how it works and how it’s presented: PiS says, “We’re giving you money for you to use as you want.” First there were payments for the second child, then for any child. Our new issue is out now. Two of these decisions were particularly significant. The Polish presidential election reached its decisive second round on July 12, as incumbent Andrzej Duda faced off against Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. [Citation Needed]. He is a member of the pro-Christian, pro-free market, pro-traditional marriage Law and Justice Party, which controlled the Presidency from 2005–2010 and would have done so longer had popular President Lech Kaczyński not been killed in a suspicious plane crash in Russia. This is quite conservative, since it excludes those without families. Hołownia [who took 14 percent in the first round] provides a curious mix of liberal progressivism and conservatism, and he was able to bring people together precisely because he has no clear political agenda: he appears just as a well-known guy [he is a talent show host] who promises he will do good things and empower citizens. First, let’s look at the sociology of the vote. Again, the money goes directly from the state to their wallets. Here, “communism” is taken to mean something foreign, alien: it is not a reference only to Poland’s recent past, but also to whatever is international, cosmopolitan, and presented as non-Polish.
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