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If late poll holds, we will work to bring down Tusk's government, senior PiS MP says​

If you’re still digesting what this could mean for Poland if these late poll numbers get confirmed, let me help you.

A senior PiS lawmaker and former education minister Przemysław Czarnek just told TV Republika:

“If these polls hold and Karol Nawrocki becomes president-elect tomorrow morning … I can reassure you that maybe not starting tomorrow, but from Tuesday, we will begin very energetic work in order to give the Polish people another gift – the end of Tusk’s government.”
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He suggested the Law and Justice party would approach some government MPs to offer them “a longer perspective of serving Poland over the next years” in a hope to get them to deflect and form a new right-wing coalition in the parliament.
 
Translated: if nawrocki wins, we will go back to dismantling democracy in Poland and criminalizing homosexuality.
 
Paine said:
Super, saying “the IACHR is part of the OAS, and the OAS is currently chaired by a leftist” is like saying NATO can’t be pro-war if the Dutch run a committee. You know better, I’d hope.

The OAS has a long track record of aligning with U.S. interests and opposing left-populist governments in Latin America. A single progressive diplomat at the helm doesn’t make it class-neutral.

Saying my critique is “stale” or “generalized” is also not an argument, it’s just a rhetorical deflection.

You invoke leftist “oppression” in the abstract, but I’m talking about a concrete democratic reform in Mexico. The fact that elites and U.S.-aligned institutions oppose it is part of my wider point.

I have no reason to think CR has any more expertise on this issue than I do, but you’ll likely be more amenable to his view on the subject since it’ll align with elite concern.
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I have reason to think that he has more experience on this issue than I do. While the OAS has its neoliberal moments, the council on human rights is a genuinely progressive organization. In any event, I don't know anything about these judicial reforms or the possibility of corruption, so I don't have anything to add other than an explanation of why some of us recoil a bit at the accusation of propaganda. Not because it's wrong, per se, but because it's incomplete.
 
Seems like nearly every democracy in the Western world is under siege by right-wing, non-college educated, embittered white men of all ages who keep trying to elect blowhard, reactionary authoritarian bigots because they're scared of darker-skinned immigrants, LGBTQ people actually being allowed to have a public life, and liberated, self-reliant women. Dark days for democracy, diversity, and any attempts to create a more enlightened society.
 
The left is not helped in Poland by the fact that the president has been blocking all the things they were voted in for. Like the US, the public has a quick reflex to blame the party in power for lack of results and not the ones blocking progress.

People are generally pretty fucking stupid.
 

looking SUPER bad in Poland. will come down to urban turnout

Sign of right-wing alliance to challege Tusk at 2027 parliamentary election​

One thing to note from both exit polls is that Nawrocki is projected to have won over almost 90% (!) of the people who voted for the libertarian far-right candidate Sławomir Mentzen of the Confederation party (“Konfederacja”), who came third in the first round vote two weeks ago.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...n-candidates-slawomir-mentzen-adrian-zandberg
If PiS takes the presidency, as the late poll suggests, the two parties could combine again – formally or not - ahead of the 2027 parliamentary election to form a new right-wing coalition to challenge Donald Tusk’s politically diverse and fragile government.

One to watch.
 
think this one is over. :(

Late late poll: Nawrocki widens lead to 2pp​

Pollster Ipsos, working for three of Poland’s largest broadcasters, has just updated it’s late late poll which includes some partial official results, and it shows an even bigger Nawrocki lead: 51% to 49%.
 

Multiple people set on fire in attack during Colorado pro-Israeli march, police say​

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“A man reportedly set people on fire in Boulder, Colorado, leaving multiple individuals injured, the city’s police chief said, as people gathered for a ‘peaceful’ pro-Israeli demonstration.

A suspect is in custody and police are investigating what FBI officials immediately called “a targeted terror attack” — though the local authorities said it was too early to define the attack.

… The man threw bottles that apparently contained flammable liquid that hit the ground and exploded in flames, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told CNN, noting the exact number of bottles was unclear….”
 
nycfan said:

Multiple people set on fire in attack during Colorado pro-Israeli march, police say​

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“A man reportedly set people on fire in Boulder, Colorado, leaving multiple individuals injured, the city’s police chief said, as people gathered for a ‘peaceful’ pro-Israeli demonstration.

A suspect is in custody and police are investigating what FBI officials immediately called “a targeted terror attack” — though the local authorities said it was too early to define the attack.

… The man threw bottles that apparently contained flammable liquid that hit the ground and exploded in flames, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told CNN, noting the exact number of bottles was unclear….”
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nycfan said:
According to the tweet you posted, he was here legally until the end of March this year. Whey did the Trump Admin allow this to happen on their watch?
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With comments like these I can tell you're not serious about the issue, but would rather score political points. You guys can't help yourselves, its sickening.
 
Silence Dogood said:
With comments like these I can tell you're not serious about the issue, but would rather score political points. You guys can't help yourselves, its sickening.
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Are you then trying to make a point about "visa overstay" and how that could/should be addressed?
 
altmin said:
It seems like the election of Tusk and his party was a dead cat bounce for democracy, and in the next parliamentary we will see the right wing take back over and Poland will go the way of other failed democracies like Hungary.
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If it is going the way of Hungary then any LGBTQ person needs to be planning their exit from the country as soon as possible, as they are about to be legally "canceled" and vigorously removed from public life. Which, to be fair, is also happening here in some red states - such as the new blatantly anti-LGBTQ law that has passed both houses of the Texas state legislature.
 
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