WARSAW, Poland—Poland holds elections this week that experts say are set to be won by the governing populists, putting the country on a collision course with Ukraine and the European Union.
While Law and Justice is set to get the most votes in the parliamentary elections for the third time in a row, it appears set to fall short of a majority. Tusk managed to bring together hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Warsaw this month in an unprecedented show of force by government opponents.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s true power broker, has called Tusk the “personification of pure evil” and accused him of “national treason”.“It’s high time that we return back to normal, to the rule of law, to freedom of choice and of speech,” Monika Pieleszynska, a 43-year-old clerk, said at the massive opposition rally on October 1.
The current government has been at loggerheads with Brussels for years, mainly over judicial reforms seen as undermining democracy and the rule of law but also over restrictions on media freedoms and migrant rights.
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