Posted on 10/28/2015 12:13:55 PM PDT by SatinDoll
Poland consolidated its rightwing shift on Sunday as the Conservative Law and Justice Party wins 242 of 460 seats in parliament, ending 8 years of centrist rule. Exit polls showed voters had handed an absolute majority to the Eurosceptic party that is against all Muslim immigration, wants Polish family-focused welfare spending and has threatened to ban abortion. For the first time in many years, it appears there will be no left wing members in Parliament.
Times of Israel Poland took a decisive turn to the right in its parliamentary election Sunday, tossing out the centrist party that had governed for eight years for a socially conservative and Euroskeptic party that wants to keep migrants out and spend more on Poland’s own poor. Even better, by winning over 39% of the vote, Law and Justice party has enough to govern alone without forming a coalition.
Kaczynski credited his late brother, former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, with the party’s strong showing. His brother was killed in the 2010 air crash in Russia that claimed the lives of the president and many of Poland’s top leaders.
If the exit poll results are confirmed, the Law and Justice will take 242 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament and 58-year-old lawmaker Beata Szydlo will become Poland’s next prime minister. Civic Platform will get 133 seats and only three other parties will make it into parliament — two of them for the first time.
Law and Justice is strongly pro-NATO but also more skeptical of the 28-nation European Union, of which Poland is a member. The party opposes adopting the euro currency and is strongly anti-Muslim migrant, positions that are expected to have a broader impact on the whole EU. The Catholic Church was seen as backing Law and Justice, as were many Poles who have not benefited from the country’s strong economic growth, expected at 3.5 percent this year.
Law and Justice has promised to reverse an unpopular rise in the retirement age and put more money into the pockets of struggling families with tax breaks, monthly cash bonuses for children under 18 and free medication for people over 75. It also wants to raise taxes on the mostly foreign-owned banks and big supermarkets in Poland and give tax breaks to smaller local businesses and those that adopt Polish technologies.
For the first time in Poland’s post-communist history, no left-wing forces appeared to have won enough votes Sunday to enter into parliament, according to the Ipsos exit poll.
It showed that only five parties gained enough votes to make it into parliament: Law and Justice; the centrist Civic Platform; a right-wing party led by rock star Pawel Kukiz; the new pro-business party Modern Poland led by a former World Bank economist and the Polish Peasants Party. Two left-wing forces had been in the running: the United Left, a coalition of several parties, and a new party, Together.
Civic Platform had led Poland through a period of strong economic growth and political stability, even during the global financial crisis of 2008-09 and the 2010 plane crash that killed so many top Polish officials. But the presidential vote in May signaled problems for Civic Platform when Law and Justice candidate Andrzej Duda edged out their incumbent.
Having the backing of the Catholic Church has led to some fears that Law and Justice will try to ban in vitro fertilization and create a total ban on abortion. For now, abortion in Poland is only allowed in rare cases, such as when the mother’s life is at risk or the fetus is damaged.
“If Law and Justice end up governing alone with an allied president, Poland will become another Hungary,” said Prof Radosław Markowski of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a reference to the extremist rightwing views of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán. (EXCELLENT!)
If anyone would like to post the photos at the site, I will not protest.
It is obvious that the Polish people, like the Austrians and the Swiss, want nothing to do with the Muslim invaders.
excellent
Make Western Civilization Great Again
The Poles have long memories and are proud of fighting prior Muslim invasions of Europe — and especially so in defeating the Turks in 1683 at the decisive Battle of Vienna.
Good. But we need big countries to come to their senses, like France, Germany and Italy.
France, Germany and Italy have sizable Muslim populations. I don’t know how that will work out.
I just found this- UNHCR data tracking ‘migration’ visualization.
At least some populations are coming to their senses. It may be too late.
More “LURCHING?” We had a whole thread on this when Poles decided to “Stand Firm,” “Not Commit National Suicide,” or “Preserve Their Nation.”
“Lurching!” I say poo on the headline writer!
Oldplayer
Yeah, I noticed that too. Governments "move" to the left, but they "lurch" to the right.
That depends. “Moderate Democrat” is a shift to the Right for most European governments.
I can’t wait to see if there are any issues ‘seating’ the right-wing representatives.
‘To the right’ in Europe means something like a moderate Democrat.
Do German women buying long guns seems to you something moderate Democrats would do?
It sure as Hell doesn’t seem that way to me!
“Do German women buying long guns seems to you something moderate Democrats would do?”
That’s just self preservation kicking in. They wouldn’t have all those socialist governments in the EU if the people didn’t tend to lean that way. These folks, and I applaud them arming themselves’ aren’t going to be waving the Gadsden flag anytime soon. They are waking up though, just as they are in Sweden, which I thought was a hopeless case.
In any case these people are NOT conservatives in the sense we think of.
But Canada went far left. The US needs a lurch to the right.
Yes, the UK Propaganda media TV and radio crowd have basically ignored the Polish election, because the evil Poles voted the way the Leftists didn’t want them to vote.
BBC radio one comment that the “Far-Right” won. BBC have reported since Monday on elections in: Argentina, Guatemala, Tanzinia, The Congo, The Ivory Coast....but NOT Poland.
Read this crazy stuff from the Leftist The Guardian, ACTUAL headline:
“Poland has survived worse than this shift to conservatism. Don’t despair”
The sub-headline:
“Despite the victory of the Law and Justice party, the country still contains powerful forces in favour of liberal, constitutional, European values”
‘Um, NO not one Leftist seat in the new parliament and WTF are European values? Allowing Muslim hordes and African savages to barge in in their hundreds of thousands?
OMG the sky is falling!
Here’s the full article:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/26/poland-election-survived-worse-orbanisation
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