PiS represents a whole conservative, religious side of Polish society and a solid third of the Polish electorate. Skilfully picking up other votes, benefiting from disillusionment with the centrist Civic Platform and pathetic chaos on the Polish left, it won a resounding victory in a free and fair election – like David Cameron’s Conservatives in Britain. So it’s not the policies, the politics or even the ideology that requires all friends of Poland to sound the alarm; it’s the winning team attempting unilaterally to change the rules of the whole democratic game.
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