{"id":39360,"date":"2019-05-28T06:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T04:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=39360"},"modified":"2019-05-28T07:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T05:07:14","slug":"the-polish-right-defeats-a-strange-alliance-of-centrists-leftists-and-post-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/05\/28\/the-polish-right-defeats-a-strange-alliance-of-centrists-leftists-and-post-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polish right defeats a strange alliance of centrists, leftists and post-communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most striking data of the European elections held last Sunday comes from Poland, where a strange alliance of the opposition was formed against the ruling party.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/03\/21\/a-polish-mep-we-want-to-defend-christian-values-together-with-vox\/\">A Polish MEP: \"We want to defend Christian values together with Vox\"<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/03\/23\/poland-and-hungary-stand-out-from-eu-support-for-abortion-and-gender-ideology-at-the-un\/\">Poland and Hungary Stand Out from EU Support for Abortion and Gender Ideology at the UN<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The Polish partners of the European People's Party, allied with the left<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The conservatives of <strong>Prawo i Sprawiedliwo\u015b\u0107 (PiS, Law and Justice), currently in government in Poland and very close to the Spaniards of<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voxespana.es\">Vox<\/a> (they will surely coincide in the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists), came to the elections with their own acronyms and won with 45.56% of the votes. <strong>The second most voted candidacy was the Koalicja Europejska (KE, European Coalition). It is, without a doubt, one of the most heterogeneous alliances that have been seen in Poland.<\/strong> The main partners of the KE were the following parties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Platforma Obywatelska (PO, Civic Platform).<\/strong> Centrist, is the main Polish partner of the European People's Party (EPP), which also belongs to the Popular Party of Spain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (PSL, Polish Popular Party).<\/strong> An agrarian center-right party, is also a member of the EPP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nowoczesna (Modern).<\/strong> A liberal-progressive party, member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). It has an ideological line similar to its Spanish partners Ciudadanos.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD, Alliance of the Democratic Left).<\/strong> A socialist party, partially heir of the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (PUWP, Polish Unified Workers Party), the only party of the communist dictatorship that disappeared in 1989. It is a member of the Party of European Socialists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Partia Zieloni (PZ, Green Party).<\/strong> An far left ecologist party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To this we must add other small center-left parties, in addition to <strong>two openly opposed partners: the Polskich Rodzin League<\/strong> (League of Polish Families, once a party of the Catholic right, supported by Radio Maria and opposed to the EU years ago, which it has ended up moving towards the center and embracing the EU) <strong>and the Inicjatywa Feministyczna<\/strong> (IF, Feminist Initiative, a leftist party that supports the legalization of abortion in Poland).<\/p>\n<p><big>Thanks to this strange alliance, a former leader of the communist dictatorship will be in Brussels<\/big><\/p>\n<p>I do not know what intentions the founders of the KE had when grouping such heterogeneous parties. Perhaps it responded to a call from the Brussels elite to defeat the wayward and politically incorrect Polish government, which does not bend to the EU's dictates on immigration? So far, <strong>what the Polish EPP partners have achieved is that the left, which has no representation in the Polish Parliament, has it in the European Parliament.<\/strong> Many Poles will be stunned today to see, in particular, that one of the new MEPs in their country is <strong>Leszek Miller, of the SLD and former leader of the PUWP, the only party of the disappeared communist dictatorship in 1989.<\/strong> Miller is a controversial figure in Poland. Among his most controversial statements are <a href=\"https:\/\/wiadomosci.onet.pl\/kraj\/miller-o-jaruzelskim-odszedl-wielki-polak\/f7lb1\">his praise of the last communist dictator<\/a>, General Jaruzelski, on his death in May 2014.<\/p>\n<p><big>Razem, the Polish version of Podemos, remains outside the European Parliament<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In the 2014 European elections, going separately, <strong>the parties that formed the KE won 28 seats; in 2019, going in coalition, he has achieved 22 seats. On the contrary, the PiS goes from 19 to 27 seats.<\/strong> In addition, the party Wiosna (Spring), member of the Party of European Socialists, has achieved 3 seats. <strong>Polarization of the vote around the two big candidates (PiS and KE) hurt small right-wing groups<\/strong>, such as the coalition Konfederacja (Confederation) and Kukiz'15, which are left without representation. <strong>The far left coalition formed by Razem, the Polish version of the Spanish Podemos party, also left out of the European Parliament:<\/strong> it only won 1.24% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most striking data of the European elections held last Sunday comes from Poland, where a strange alliance of the opposition was formed against the ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373],"tags":[12647,12650,12651,12642,12648,12644,10993,10370,12646,10723,12643,12649],"class_list":["post-39360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-inicjatywa-feministyczna","tag-konfederacja","tag-kukiz15","tag-leszek-miller","tag-liga-polskich-rodzin","tag-nowoczesna","tag-platforma-obywatelska-po","tag-poland","tag-polskie-stronnictwo-ludowe-psl","tag-prawo-i-sprawiedliwosc-pis","tag-sojusz-lewicy-demokratycznej","tag-wiosna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}