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PO stopped being hope a long time ago. That's why Polish people are evacuating in drones.
What are you on about? It doesn't matter which government is in power - people will still leave because there's simply no way that any government is going to raise living standards to German levels quickly. Look at Spain, even look at Ireland - people were and are leaving there, and they're much richer countries. Try and look past the crude PiS propaganda, will you?
PO = corruption.
Haven't you followed the news lately? Even Duda has been caught red handed defrauding Poland! PiS are about as corrupt as it gets...
I've spoken to many Polish people in the UK who moved recently, and the soul reason they left was PO and the way they run things
You really ought to stop talking to people from rural Lubelskie, because they'll always give lame answers like "the government didn't give me 20,000zl to have a baby".
so I don't know what hope and improvements you're seeing, but a lot of actual Polish people, not expats, obviously aren't looking through the same rose tinted sunglasses you are.
Nice abuse, but I'm talking about actual small improvements that aren't headline grabbing. PO have reformed a lot of small things that PiS wouldn't have touched, yet it made life much easier for Polish citizens. Take for example the massive effort to provide centralised services - this will never win any awards, yet it's made a massive difference in the way that citizens can work with the state. A lot of people have commented recently how interacting with the state is no longer hell and bureaucratic - yet it's just a small example of how things have changed.
If things are so great, why are people still running away? They don't see a future for themselves in Poland.
They're going because Poland has no hope of raising itself to German levels and they want everything now. It's that simple - PO, PiS, SLD - no-one would be able to increase living standards dramatically and quickly. Are you really so naive as to think that people will suddenly stop leaving because PiS come to power? If anything, the people that matter are likely to leave.
That's arguable. Komorowski vs Duda was basically PO vs Pis, and many Komorowski (and therefore PO supporters) shifted to Kukiz.
Presidential elections are always a bit weird in Poland, to be fair. Komorowski lost that election, not PO - people turned on him because he was perceived to have been lazy and "I'm gonna win anyway, so why bother" while Duda ran a fantastic campaign, and Kukiz put a lot of ground work in as well.
Not when while asked if he was going as the prime minister of Poland, he said he wouldn't. You can say it's an achievements for Poland, but it's not. It's Tusk leaving a sinking ship and the only reason they elected him in the EU was because he smiles and keeps his mouth shut. He does whatever they want him to.
It was a great honour for a Pole to get elevated to the top job. I don't think you quite understand it, but people in Poland were genuinely proud that a Polish person was capable of such a thing. As for why they elected him - he was elected as a man that could compromise and get others to compromise. In other words, he was talented and seen as someone that took Poland from being this annoying squeaky wheel to being a serious partner at the European level.
I'd say there are a couple of parties PiS could form a coalition with.
It's debatable. A broad anti-PiS coalition with a technocrat Prime Minister is quite feasible, particularly given that PiS have abused and antagonised PO, ZL, PSL, MN and Nowoczesna. There's no-one else, unless you think that Kukiz would be a sensible coalition partner (here's a hint - even PiS think that he's a twat).
Only idiots vote Po.
How intelligent.
And where have you read that non-sens? in "Gazeta Wybiórcza"?
Oh, more intelligence.
Go on then, amuse me, tell me how many governments have been anything other than centre-right in the III RP? ;) Even PiS were elected as centre-right politicians, and they pursued a rather centre-right economic policy during that time.
