by Wawrzyniec Muszynski-Sulima | Oct 19, 2020 | University of Chicago
On June 13th 2020, the incumbent Andrzej Duda secured another 5 years in office as the president of the Republic of Poland. After a fierce battle and with a mere 400 thousand votes of advantage, he beat Warsaw’s mayor Rafał Trzaskowski in the presidential...
by Peter Fedyk | May 15, 2020 | Georgia State University
Poland’s Law and Justice party has infamously peeled back layers of democracy year by year since their surprise majority win in 2015. Using their control of both houses of the legislative branch, the party have made unprecedented moves against the independence of the...
by Marina Berardino | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
After the fall of communism in 1989, Poland elected its first non-Communist prime minister since the early post-war years. However, some politicians still seemed to have communist ties. To counter this, Jarosław Kaczyński started a far right movement united in the Law...
