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Poland 2007 Elections: PO Won, PIS second [232]
Your description of LiD could easily be applied to most British MP's and all MEP's!
Same here but especially LiD and Samoobrona.
Basically old fashioned Communists under a new name then.
Befre WWII PSL was a real mainstream party, later was hijacked by communist regime and renamed to ZSL. This is how they pretended that we have multi-party system. So current PSL origin in this communist one. They are socialistic and full of happiness because Common Agriculture Policy of the EU. However on moral issues they have conservative stance, probably because this is stand of most of their voters.
I think the Socialists would disagree with that as they hate the BNP and consider them to be 'extreme right wing'. Though looking through their policies there is a mix of Socialism and Conservatism.
Well, I see the world how it is and not how the socialists would wish us to see it! :) According to leftist propagandists Hitler was also extreme right despite being member of National
Socialist Party!
Certainly not atheistic though, very anti Muslim and into 'Defending Christian Values' while remaining secular.
What is their stance on issues like abortion, homo-marriages/adoption? I have read once David Cameroon, from supposed Conservative Party who asked for exclusion of Catholic orphanages from giving their children to adoption for homosexuals... This is not how conservatism is considered in Poland. If a leader of the party that I support (UPR) said something like this I would be shocked and demand not only his resignation but also expulsion from the party structures :) So I presume that British conservatism is rather about economy. However I read that Cameroon claim to be Protestant.
How many signatures are needed?
5000 to be registered in one election district. (out of 41) If you manage to do it in 21 election districts then they automatically register you in whole country. But of course you need to try to do it in every district and you must collect more because some may be questioned later. If mayor parties get donations from state budget then this is not problem for them. While small parties have a lot of problem especially if they officially oppose such donations like UPR.
Do you think the election result would have been different if smaller parties had more time to register?
I think that they could together collect about 4%. Mostly recently established Woman Party, a leftist project which immediately gained positive coverage of mainstream media and UPR which is rarely mentioned and if something then only in "bad" context. General results would be almost the same but these parties lost the opportunity of promotion in public media. Unfortunately we have "media democracy", because media create image of parties and certain politicians, chose subject of discussions during the debates and even who will represents certain party (if invited at all). Level of manipulations is horrific.
