Posted on 05/25/2015 12:30:17 PM PDT by annalex
Edited on 05/25/2015 12:35:42 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Poland is getting a new and more conservative president. Andrzej Duda, 43, won the European Union members presidential runoff election Sunday by an unofficial 6 percentage-point margin, Agence France-Presse reported.
"I congratulate my competitor Andrzej Duda and wish him a successful presidency," President Bronisław Komorowski was quoted by the Associated Press as saying in a concession speech late Sunday in Warsaw. A TVP public broadcaster exit poll indicated Duda was comfortably ahead at 53 percent to Komorowskis 47 percent.
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Riiight.
We can be hopeful, but it’s likely that he’ll drag Poland back under the boot of Russia. That’s nationalistic and conservative in some circles.
We did have that thread yesterday (about Putin). As long as he’s nationalistic, “conservative,” and anti-homo . . . a few dead political opponents and journalists are just some cracked eggs.
:’)
Gwine to run all night, gwine to run all day.....
‘Duda, where’s my Euro?’
Well bugger. I think, why does the media call this conservative? And then I recall that they call Putin himself and his party of lapdogs conservative. “Nationalist” and “religious” does not = conservative.
Much more important than the Presidency are the upcoming elections for Parliament this fall.
That would be your job. The link is there, verify away.
You know that how? Poland has been extremely fearful of the resurgent USSR; any sympathy to Putin would be a sure ticket to hell for the Polish electorate.
nationalistic and conservative in some circles
There are fools who think that Putin is "nationalistic and conservative". I doubt that anyone in Poland would think that. I certainly don't. Putin is restoring an artificial nation: the Soviet man. His conservatism is also of the Soviet mold: hatred of dissent.
Catholic and pro-life, that’s why. And not willing to surrender national sovereignty to the EU.
That’s precisely why the PO lost, many thought they were a bit too cozy with the Russians.
By joining the EU, a member state has agreed to surrender its national sovereignty. Read the treaties.
Already found links to the Washington Compost there. They are the primary source claiming “socially and fiscally conservative”.
Duda is not nationalist and even his conservatism is highly doubtful (former member of Freedom Union which was everything but conservative). He wants to attract conservative voters, thus dose of conservative rhetoric that he need to use. The same about EU-sceptism, Polish politicians are paid by the EU and they like high salaries.
Political formation that he represents used to bully Russian regime even before Ukrainian war started or plane with president Kaczynski crashed.
They used to be Jewish and American friendly, so if I would be an American I would be happy with that outcome. His oponent party is more pro-German. Duda spoke that he want NATO bases to be moved from Germany to Poland, regretted that anti-missle shield plan was abandoned.
Duda won presidency because he made many empty and costly promises. In election campaign they are populist socialists but their policy would be just bureaucratic technocracy. Nothing really interesting. Only value is that they would not force leftist agenda with gay marriages and similar ideas.
If he’s not an economic conservative the English language media should not be calling him a conservative. It’s misleading.
I hate both but given the choice, I’d take the EU over the Russian Empire. I hope Duda rejects the overtures of both.
Why should anyone take that choice? Doing so is tantamount to rejecting the USA. Of course, Obama removed the choice from Poland as soon as he did Putin’s will over the missile shield.
They shouldn’t. I’m just getting the point across that I think Putin is that much worse.
Why are those the only choices? What ever happened to the idea of national sovereignty?
I refer you post 56. I would choose neither.
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