Poland: “there will be no revenge”
Kaczynski’s hardliners are remaking the state along right-wing nationalist lines
"We are turning Warsaw into Budapest", announced the head of "Law and Justice" (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, after the lost parliamentary election in 2011 already announced. After winning the parliamentary election on 25. October and the swearing-in of the new government under Prime Minister Beata Szydlo on 16. November, he can make his dream of a national-conservative reshaping of Poland along the lines of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban come true.
It is not Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, the former election chief of the successful PiS presidential candidate Andrzej Duda, who is the crucial figure. Significantly, Szydlo took a vacation in early November, when important talks on forming a government were underway,