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Romania’s Presidential Election: European Alliances vs Authoritarian Drift
14 May 2025
With the ruling party feeling pressure from both the re-emerging centre and a rebranded extreme-right, Poland’s de facto leader Jarosław Kaczyński will attempt to navigate a third consecutive victory by scapegoating migrants and following – for domestic purposes – well-trodden Russian disinformation narratives.
The key political mantra of Poland’s supreme party leader Jarosław Kaczyński, apart from regular Germany-bashing, has been never to allow a significant rival to emerge on the right of his ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party.
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For almost eight years of holding power, he managed to do just that by moving his once centre-right grouping more and more firmly into nationalist, socially conservative, authoritarian and Eurosceptic positions espoused by many radical-right parties in Europe and appealing to a considerable segment of the Polish electorate.