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Czy rząd Olafa Scholza był skazany na porażkę? Kronika upadku. Niemcy mogą podzielić los Turyngii
Światła zgasły, na scenie pozostał mniejszościowy rząd SPD-Zieloni, który dryfuje ku nowym wyborom. Jak do tego doszło? Kim są główni aktorzy tego politycznego dramatu? Jakiego rozwoju sytuacji można się spodziewać? Dzień po wygranych przez Donalda Trumpa wyborach niemiecką polityką wstrząsnęła wiadomość o zdymisjonowaniu przez kanclerza Olafa Scholza ministra finansów Christiana Lindnera.
Skrajna prawica u władzy. Wybory w Saksonii i Turyngii to trzęsienie ziemi: dla Niemiec i Zachodu
Ponad 40 proc. głosów w Saksonii i prawie połowa w Turyngii przypadła partiom otwarcie antysystemowym. Jakie będą tego konsekwencje? Czy rząd Scholza upadnie i Niemcom grożą przedterminowe wybory? Przewodniczący Konferencji Episkopatu Niemiec bp Georg Bätzing apelował przed wyborami w Saksonii i Turyngii o niegłosowanie na Alternatywę dla Niemiec (AfD) i Sojusz Sahry Wagenknecht (BSW).
Analysis | Poland’s ruling party might not win Sunday’s first-round presidential election
Poland’s most unusual presidential campaign is finally nearing the end. The election, originally scheduled for May 10, was postponed at the last minute due to the pandemic. The first round will now take place on Sunday. The election takes place after five years of democratic backsliding under President Andrzej Duda and his nationalistic Law and Justice (PiS) party. Among a range of illiberal policies, the party has restricted judicial independence and exerted control over public media.
Analysis | Poland’s parliament is now divided. What does this mean for the ruling Law and Justice party?
Last weekend, Poland’s voters went to the polls — and delivered a divided parliament. The controversial Law and Justice (PiS) party maintained its majority in the lower house of parliament, the Sejm, winning the same number of seats — 235 of 460 — as in the 2015 election. However, the Senate, which had been controlled by PiS, was narrowly won by the opposition with 51 of 100 seats. That threatens PiS’s dominance, which critics believe has undermined the country’s democratic institutions.
Analysis | Poland goes to the polls this Sunday. Will the controversial Law and Justice party stay in power?
On Sunday, Poland will elect a new Parliament. Over the past four years, the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has made international headlines for policies that undermine democracy. Despite this, the party is on track to remain the strongest faction in the lower house of Parliament, the Sejm. However, it’s not clear that the party will win the majority of seats. In the 2015 election, PiS won 235 of 460 Sejm seats with only 37.58 percent of the vote.
Politics & Gender: Volume 15 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
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Democratic elections in Poland face a new threat
The democratic backsliding in Poland continues under the leadership of the Law and Justice (PiS) government. Over the past two years, PiS has gradually stripped the judicial branch of its independence and tightened its grip over the media. PiS has now taken aim at Poland’s election process. The Polish Senate supported the election reform bill on Dec. 21 and the lower house of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, passed it early this morning.
So Poland’s president surprised everyone, vetoing two bills that threatened the courts’ independence. Here’s what that means.
On Monday morning, Polish President Andrzej Duda surprised everyone by vetoing two of three bills that would have curtailed judicial independence in Poland. Duda rejected the bill allowing the government to remove and replace Supreme Court justices, which passed both houses of parliament late last week and had prompted widespread protests. Tens of thousands of Poles across the country had engaged in daily protests as the president considered his decision over the weekend.
Poland appears to be dismantling its own hard-won democracy
A bill now in Poland’s parliament would destroy the judicial system’s independence and authority — and it’s likely to become law. In 2015, the far-right populist Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party won both the presidential and parliamentary elections. Since then — despite public protests and international pressure — PiS’s party leader Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski has steadily passed laws that have eroded Poland’s democratic system of government.
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