Polish Elections

[SLD]

Some may think that elections in Poland are not particularly important. But I beg to differ. Today, the Law and Justice Party, PiS, got their butts kicked. While they still garnered a plurality of votes, they cannot stop the opposition parties from forming a coalition government that ousts them from power.

Poland election: Tusk's opposition eyes power after pivotal vote

Eight years of rule under the right-wing Law and Justice party could soon come to an end.

www.bbc.com

This has huge implications for Ukraine - note their recent spat was really with the PiS leadership.

But more importantly, it is (hopefully) a harbinger of other would be autocratic parties in Europe and the United States. Maybe the public is sick of them - at least a majority of them are in the United States for sure. Maybe, just maybe, countries are stepping back from the brink of fascism.

Then of course the AfD in Deutschland comes roaring to life the other day thus sandbagging my optimism. Well, maybe they'll collapse soon enough.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Some may think that elections in Poland are not particularly important. But I beg to differ. Today, the Law and Justice Party, PiS, got their butts kicked. While they still garnered a plurality of votes, they cannot stop the opposition parties from forming a coalition government that ousts them from power.

Poland election: Tusk's opposition eyes power after pivotal vote

Eight years of rule under the right-wing Law and Justice party could soon come to an end.

www.bbc.com

This has huge implications for Ukraine - note their recent spat was really with the PiS leadership.

But more importantly, it is (hopefully) a harbinger of other would be autocratic parties in Europe and the United States. Maybe the public is sick of them - at least a majority of them are in the United States for sure. Maybe, just maybe, countries are stepping back from the brink of fascism.

Then of course the AfD in Deutschland comes roaring to life the other day thus sandbagging my optimism. Well, maybe they'll collapse soon enough.

Another vote for authoritarianism and that might have locked it in for the foreseeable future. I took the aniti-Ukraine rhetoric by the PiS party leading up to the election as just that, fodder to appeal to the nationalists. Important to note is they had a very large turnout and PiS lost. That shows where the people are really at.

 

[robnisch]

The parliamentary system is messy. But, look at your congress today!

 

[barbos]

They did not "lose" because they were autocratic, they "lost" because people were tired of ukraine crap.
In Slovakia pro-EU party lost for the same reason. Germany too.
And Orban is safe for the same reason. People are tired of Ukraine.

 

[laughing dog]

People are tired of Ukraine but they are more fed up with Russian aggression and lies.

 

[barbos]

note their recent spat was really with the PiS leadership.

No, their spat was with the current regime in Poland which happened to be PiS.
The new regime in Poland will be rabidly pro-EU, that's for sure.
Will it be rabidly pro-ukronazi? probably, but that's not a certainty. People are tired and poles have lost their interest in fighting (and losing) war with Russia.