The liberal parties hold a majority in the newly-elected parliament. Incumbent Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has been given the task of forming a new government, but any attempt at extending his time in power seems doomed
Brussels seems relieved about the electoral defeat of the ultra-conservative PiS and the prospect of a center-right coalition in Warsaw led by Donald Tusk
The 66-year-old Tusk is a former Polish prime minister and former European Union leader who returned to Polish politics several years ago
One of the questions will ask voters whether they ‘support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy’
The European Commission’s proposal for the distribution of refugees fuels the ultra-conservative Law and Justice party’s Eurosceptic discourse and calls to defend Polish sovereignty
Citizens travelled from across the country to voice their anger at officials who they say have eroded democratic norms and created fears that the nation is following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy
