Poles have elected a new parliament, ousting the Law and Justice government. A new coalition will have to deal with an illiberal heritage of the predecessors. What has really happened and how Polish society is changing? Is there a mandate for a thorough change and reinvigoration of a liberal democracy weakened by eight years of anti-liberal and Eurosceptic government accused of autocratic tendencies. Prof. Maria Wincławska from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń stresses that the work has only started.
Prof. Maria Wincławska from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń comments on the recent parliamentary elections in Poland. There is a change, but how deep it will go? Poles participated in unprecedented numbers and clearly showed fatigue with illiberal, even autocratic rule of Law and Justice. But is there a real mandated to reform the state and rebuild a true liberal democracy?
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