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Polish PM Tusk’s focus on dismantling PiS’s deep-seated patronage systems and fostering transparency may offer valuable lessons for Hungary, where Viktor Orbán’s regime has entrenched its own network of clientelism and corruption.
Since taking office in December 2023, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has repeatedly condemned the patronage system entrenched during the previous Law and Justice (PiS) administration.
Tusk has vowed to hold accountable ‘all those who abused power and robbed the Polish state,’ presenting a damning list of alleged misconduct by Jarosław Kaczyński’s PiS Party, including wasting vast sums on a new airport in central Poland, mismanaging the state-controlled refiner PKN-Orlen, turning public outlets into propaganda tools, purchasing spyware to monitor political opponents, filling state companies with loyalists and using public funds as a party slush fund.
Cleaning up Poland’s political system will be a challenging task for PM Tusk. However, his actions signal a promising shift toward a more transparent political system, moving away from EU investigations into rule of law violations. This approach also offers hope for other countries like Hungary, where corruption has taken deep root.
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