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16 May 2024
Authoritarian populism poses a systemic threat to European integration. History teaches us that in cases of democratic breakdown, autocrats have justified their power consolidation by labelling their political opponents as existential threats.
On 13 October there will be parliamentary elections in Poland and local elections in Hungary. Both countries are being ruled by Eurosceptic populist governments that have opted for significant systemic change. Jarosław Kaczyński, the de facto leader of Poland, has promised to build “Budapest in Warsaw” and by 2019 he has succeeded in part.
The recently published election program of PiS is a populist manifesto and highlights potential similarities with the approach taken by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. As we have pointed out before, the two leaders have depicted their opponents as traitors, who are collaborating with the European Union in order to undermine the sovereign will of the “pure people” in Poland and Hungary.
A strong anti-imperialist theme prevails in the discourse by claiming that the West is harbouring colonial sentiments towards Central Europe.
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