What on earth is happening in Poland?
The new government is aggressively undoing years of illiberal rule. The upshot is a constitutional mess
IN THE RUN-UP to Poland’s election in October 2023 Donald Tusk, the leader of the country’s centre-right bloc, said that if he regained power he would need just 24 hours to begin restoring democracy. After the vote Mr Tusk, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2014, formed a coalition that drove the populist incumbents, the Law and Justice party (PiS), from power.
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