A new electoral alliance in Poland

Poland's populist Samoobrona Farmers Party and the ultra-conservative League of Polish Families (LPR) have joined forces. They plan to run under the joint list name LiS (Polish for fox) in the next parliamentary elections, in the hope that this will boost their position within the governing coalition with the PiS. Piotr Pacewicz comments: "This alliance between the cheap populism of Samoobrona and the nationalist provincial agenda of the LPR, which has sprung from fear of the PiS, is good news. It is bound to accelerate the gradual demise we have been witnessing over the past few months of two embarrassing formations... Each of the two parties has a large, negatively oriented body of voters which partially intersect. The battle for power within the alliance will increase the number of Samoobrona and LPR opponents. In this way the little fox alliance will end up being rejected instead of rewarded by voters."

» full article (external link, Polish)
More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Poland
All available articles from » Piotr Pacewicz

» To the complete press review of Tuesday, July 17, 2007