No end to the Polish government crisis

The national conservative "Law and Justice (PiS) party has plunged Poland's young democracy into its worst crisis yet, Gabriele Lesser concludes. "Why the PiS didn't keep its campaign pledge and form a coalition with the Civic Platform (PO) remains a mystery. At any rate, the coalition with the radicals was certainly a mistake. Instead of having a civilising influence on the League of Polish Families (LPR) and the populist left-wing Farmers' Party Samoobrona, the PiS has coarsened and become a threat to the establishment of a constitutional state in Poland... Poland's young democracy still has sufficient self-healing powers, but if the PiS wins the next elections again it will be a disaster."

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