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Poland's Party of Law and Justice (PiS) reconstruction [38]
The real business is conducted not in those formal meetings and sessions of parliament but in the networking that goes on in the corridors
I agree which is one reason why I don't like the whole EP and overgrown EU idea, there's enough backroom deals done in member states, no need to add to it at the supranational level....
I'm afraid PIS lack that skill.
Polish parties are only as strong as their leader and the leader's faults become the party's faults (not the only ones necessarily). What does Kaczyński know? The PRL. He's never lived abroad and has almost no connection to other countries or cultures (does he know any language besides his own muddled Polish?).
And he's stuck in the old Power Politics Brinksmanship model of the last century.
Had he kept PiS's implicit word and stepped down and not played an active role in the party then maybe PiS could have morphed into a more conventional Christian Democrat party (which would not be the worst thing in the world) but as long as he's around it's stuck in the cold war mentality.