No Poland isn’t on the same trajectory as the US. It’s not going ever more left. The presidency is mostly a figurehead position in Poland and Duda isn’t a particularly sympathetic character. The elections to watch will be to the Sejm (Congress) and whether Morawiecki will keep the PM position. In 2015 PiS (Law and Justice Conservative party) won a historic election. For the first time since the end of communism a party won an outright majority and didn’t have to create a confederated government. They pushed through a ton of changes and got a lot of swamp rats left over from communism thrown out of the Justice department—but there’s a lot more to do.
No Poland isn’t on the same trajectory as the US. It’s not going ever more left. The presidency is mostly a figurehead position in Poland and Duda isn’t a particularly sympathetic character. The elections to watch will be to the Sejm (Congress) and whether Morawiecki will keep the PM position. In 2015 PiS (Law and Justice Conservative party) won a historic election. For the first time since the end of communism a party won an outright majority and didn’t have to create a confederated government. They pushed through a ton of changes and got a lot of swamp rats left over from communism thrown out of the Justice department—but there’s a lot more to do.
Sounds optimistic, but I'm realistic, not getting my hopes up.