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Fico Shooting: An Opportunity For Regional Autocrats To Weaponise “Polarisation” – QUICK TAKE
16 May 2024
29 May 2023
Turkey’s Erdoğan won by foul play, sidelining the main rival early in the game. Now Poland’s autocrats want to do the same, employing Kremlin’s whataboutism.
Law and Justice (PiS) must not be allowed to duck questions about shadowing Russian narratives and interests with some of its policies. That is how one should interpret the disgraceful “Lex Tusk” law, passed last Friday and signed by the President of Poland.
On 26 May, the Law and Justice-controlled parliament passed a law in Poland – branded “Lex Tusk” – that would establish a special parliamentary commission to investigate and suspend the public freedoms of citizens whom they suspect of “serving Moscow’s interests”.