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Progressive win, POL

samedi 21 octobre 2023 à 06:05

It looks like the democracy coalition has won the election in Poland. However, I don't want to count this victory before it has hatched.

If it can assume government power, it will have a lot of work to do to restore democratic institutions.

The EU rules and treaties can be used to eliminate authoritarian government in a single member state, if only one member state has it; but when two member states have it, they can protect each other and bring the treaty requirements to naught. In recent years, Poland and Hungary protected each other's authoritarian institutions. Returning Poland to democracy and human rights could have made an opportunity to rescue Hungary too, but alas no — a far-right extremist government just won the election in Slovakia. I suspect Slovakia and Hungary will now protect each other from human rights.