Daniel Tilles
Maintaining a tough anti-Russia line while showing allegiance to Trump is becoming increasingly difficult for PiS.
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Daniel Tilles
Maintaining a tough anti-Russia line while showing allegiance to Trump is becoming increasingly difficult for PiS.
Jarosław Kaczyński is facing a defamation lawsuit while Mariusz Błaszczak is accused of unlawfully publishing classified military plans.
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Aleks Szczerbiak
PiS is facing its most serious crisis for many years and may not survive in its current form
PiS members call for non-recognition of her status as MP and the her removal from PiS.
The speaker of parliament accused Kaczyński of “beating the drum of Russian propaganda”.
Kaczyński also accused Tusk of wanting to turn Poles into “farmhands for Germany”.
“We have a real problem with democracy” under Tusk’s new government, says Kaczyński.
The ruling party leader called on Poles to “fight, fight and fight again” to resist the EU’s plans.
Stanley Bill
Almost three quarters of the vote share lost by PiS since 2019 came in small towns and villages.
“We are dealing with external forces that use formations that operate in Poland and present themselves as Polish.”
Law and Justice (PiS): 35.38%; Civic Coalition (KO): 30.70%; Third Way (Trzecia Droga): 14.40%; The Left (Lewica): 8.61%; Confederation (Konfederacja): 7.16%.
There had been speculation as to whether Tusk would attend given that the station is under government influence.
The government has adopted a resolution blaming the EU for the renewed crisis on Lampedusa.
Roman Giertych, who founded and led the nationalist All-Polish Youth and was once an ally of Jarosław Kaczyński, will now stand for the opposition.