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Poland’s Law and Justice party loses power after eight years of authoritarian rule
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/europe/poland-pis-confidence-vote-tusk-intl/index.html
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Poland’s populist Law and Justice Party has lost a confidence vote to end its authoritarian eight-year stint in power, paving the way for Donald Tusk to take charge of the country this week.
The party, known by the acronym PiS, fell well short of a parliamentary majority in October’s general election but for two months had tried in vain to find a coalition that could keep it in power.
Monday’s vote along partisan lines concluded that process, and completed an era of PiS rule that had alarmed international bodies and intensely divided Polish society.
PiS had orchestrated an illiberal transformation of Poland since coming to power in 2015, seizing greater control of the country’s judiciary, public media, cultural institutions and companies, and cracking down on the rights of migrants, women and LGBTQ+ people.
But it failed to win an unprecedented third term in October’s election, in a vote that was dominated by the cost of living, the war in Ukraine, and Poland’s place in Europe.
Tusk, who previously served two terms as Poland’s prime minister from 2007 – and then became the EU Council President for five years – will now look to wind back the consequences of PiS’ transformation of the Polish state.
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