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In this short essay I will discuss the role of the president in the Polish political system, the background and context of the 2025 elections, the main actors, and finally, the outcome of the elections with some predictions for the future. (more…)
Mateusz Sitek, the 21-year-old Polish soldier who died from injuries he sustained after being stabbed by a migrant while defending the Polish border.
Mateusz Sitek, the 21-year-old Polish soldier who died from injuries he sustained after being stabbed by a migrant while defending the Polish border.
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The European Parliament elections in Poland in 2024 were considered by all the main players and commentators as a follow-up to the Polish parliamentary elections of 2023 — so I encourage all readers to read my report on it, as well as my essay on the new liberal government in Poland.
Polish politicians, analysts, and voters have always considered the European Parliament elections as secondary to the national parliamentary elections. (more…)
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Ryszard Gromadzki interviewed Prof. Andrzej Nowak, a historian at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he is the head of the Section for the History of Eastern Europe. (more…)
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The most probable scenario came to pass in the aftermath of the 2023 Polish parliamentary elections (see my report on it here). To sum up events: The conservative Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law & Justice, or PiS) party, which had been in power for the two terms, won the most votes, but not enough to gain the total majority of seats in the Parliament. (more…)
Grzegorz Braun. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Grzegorz Braun. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Now there is a Pole memed round the world . . . On the December 12, 2023, Polish MP Grzegorz Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out the lights on a hanukkiah (incorrectly referred to as a menorah in most reports) in the Polish Parliament. The questions everyone on the dissident Right is asking are how did that happen, and is Grzegorz Braun our guy? Just to spoil the fun for everyone right away: no, he is not our guy, and his intentions were not 100% “red-pilled.” Probably the best comparison we can make to anglosphere politics is to say that Braun is a “Catholic Alex Jones” of sorts. (more…)
EU front man Donald Tusk, very possibly Poland’s next Prime Minister.
EU front man Donald Tusk, very possibly Poland’s next Prime Minister.
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The Polish parliamentary elections of October 2023 promised to answer the ultimate question of Polish politics: whether the ruling party — in this case Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or Law & Justice (PiS) — can break the curse and rule for a third time in a row, something which had never been achieved before in the 33 years of Polish democracy, or will it adhere to the iron rule of Polish politics and lose to the main opposition party after being in power for two terms? (more…)
