It also wants to enshrine more Roman Catholic values in Polish law, reflecting the party’s deeply socially conservative stance. Incumbent and centrist Civic Platform Party received 23.6 percent.
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Having criss-crossed the country in a bus tour, they managed to turn his 30 percent deficit in the opinion polls into an emphatic victory, giving Law & Justice the momentum to sweep back into power in Sunday’s vote.
Numerous party’s supporters take for granted the EU funds that drive growth, and the freedom to easily cross European borders for travel and work. The conservative Law and Justice Party, which won Poland’s general elections, has tapped Sz… It opposes the EU’s relocation of refugees and illegal aliens into Poland. Indeed, the party has increasingly given the impression that, with the Eurozone’s huge internal problems, it could not envisage any point in the foreseeable future when it would be advantageous for Poland to adopt the single currency. “Also respect to all those who fought”.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker wrote to PiS candidate for prime minister Beata Szydlo, congratulating her on victory and saying the EU executive expected Poland to play a central role in building a stronger Europe.
But, whether in foreign, economic or social policies, Kaczynski can not be ignored.
Throughout Law and Justice’s campaign trail, the party accused Civic Platform of being out-of-touch with ordinary Poles, while playing on scandals which have plagued the party.
Mr Jaroslaw Kaczynski is unlikely to hold any government position; he has accepted that he is far too personally unpopular to front his party. The result of this was, it argues, a failure to conduct a sufficiently active eastern policy.
Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz has conceded the defeat and said,”The voters have punished us for our failures to come up to their standard”.
The Law and Justice party is headed by Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
But he highlighted two areas where a new Polish government might be at odds with the EU. As such the country has had little experience of the modern migrations that have transformed Western Europe.
According to World Bank figures, its economy is expected to expand by 3.5 percent this year and next.
For nearly a decade, Poland has been Europe’s great exception.
“Szydlo is the mother of Duda’s success, but she doesn’t have much experience on the national level”, said Olgierd Annusewicz, a political scientist at Warsaw University.
Indeed it will be interesting to see if the mildly Eurosceptic Law and Justice will take a constructive approach to shaping policy in Brussels.
Jan Gross, a Polish-born US Jewish historian and sociologist, said the results were “a big disappointment to those who err on the side of tolerance in Poland“, and “risked entrenching the monolithic tendencies in Polish society, to the detriment of minorities”.
It has cited examples of European Union states with large Muslim communities where it claims that such a scenario is already unfolding.
The results must still be confirmed but it appeared that Law and Justice has a chance to form a majority government. Tomatoes, pomidory in Polish, represented PO, or Civic Platform.
While PiS are often described as eurosceptics, they are not likely to advocate leaving the EU.
“You prepared a murderous law, because children are frozen, stopped in their development, waiting in ice-cold conditions until someone decides whether they live or not”, Archbishop Andrzej Dziega said in a sermon in July, addressing lawmakers.
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