Eurosceptic Andrzej Duda Will Become New Polish President, Signaling Conservative, Populist Shift

International Business Times ^ | May 24 2015 | Angelo Young

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[annalex]

Yes; this is why the political climate needs to be changing toward euro-skepticism.

[annalex]

Where? In the Wiki on him I only see a Huffington Post news piece. The rest of the support material in in Polish. The dispute was about the Orban's changes to the Hungarian constitution; those were from primary sources.

On his current Law and Justice party, the Wiki is quite informative; it is described as Christian, "softly" euro-skeptic and atlanticist. Better than the alternative.

If you don't like my sources, post yours.

[annalex]

Thank you for the local perspective. I would only note that his political trajectory is still salutary, from Freedom Union to Law and Justice. If he is strongly pro-life and Catholic, that is the definition of both nationalism (for Poland) and conservatism. Bullying the Russians is a bonus; they fully deserve that. I understand that European vocabulary differs from the American on that.

I am not a fan of democracy of any description, so my expectations as regards elected politicians are low.

[annalex]

I wish I had your command of Polish.

[Lukasz]

So am I. However we should try to see who they really are and not how they wish to be seen.

[Olog-hai]

National sovereignty? Don’t you know that went out the window as soon as the old empires reared their ugly heads again?

[Cronos]

Kinga Duda

A new political dynasty?

[21twelve]

Dang - she’s 43!!?? She looks more like 23. Good on her - and Poland!

[21twelve]

Note - read the thread first!! (She’s the GUY’S daughter!).

Good night!

[Cronos]

no, the daughter is 19. the wife is 43!