Law versus Justice: Is POLAND’s democracy self-destructing?

Donald Tusk is telling Poles to boycott their presidential elections out of “basic human decency”. Is Poland’s ruling Law And Justice using COVID to intensify its anti-liberal direction? How are ordinary Poles coping with Corona? And could Law And Justice really get Poland expelled from the EU even though Poles are the most pro-EU people in Europe? Sociologist ROCH DUNIN-WĄSOWICZ of the LSE explains the crisis in democracy in the EU’s seventh-largest country.

• “If the Presidential elections were to take place they would not fulfil the democratic conditions of being free, open and transparent.”
• “This amounts to the complete control of the judiciary by the executive.”
• “In Poland the UK is being showcased as Europe’s worst case of handling COVID. And that makes the Polish community in the UK worried.”
• “A lot of promises were made to Britain’s Polish community, and those promises were broken.”

Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.

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