pakol: And even with 20 k it's still a huge number.

Not really. Turnouts in Polish elections are around 50% of the vote, so around 15 million voters. You need 5% of them to get into the Sejm - so around 750,000. 20,000 is well short of that number.

pakol: They are a serious force.

If they were a serious force, why was Jaroslaw Kaczynski very careful to not support them last time round?

Grandmaster: There are two main issues with RN
They are plain nazis

After 1989. "Fascists" were, among others, Lech Walesa, Donald Tusk and Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. Today this term sticks to the President and his party PiS

- If the chief second force in the country without embarrassment refers to the idea of Carl Schmitt, the Nazi teacher if raises the slogan "Polish, wake up", literally modeled on Hitler's slogan "Deutschland, erwache" (Germany), wake up, if the formula Nazis organizes fackelzugs, torchlight descents, whether these analogies may not raise concern? The leader leads the party organized on strictly fascist manner, with full power, concentrated in only one hand - recently alerted the honorary chairman of the Association of Polish Journalists Stefan Bratkowski.
In his opinion, "the nascent fascism", that Jaroslaw Kaczynski and PiS, you need to "obstruct the path".
With who Walesa is associated
Kaczynski is the first Polish politician after 1989., who was accused of fascism. The list is long, and one of the characters, which it opens, is Lech Walesa. Such accusations were already in the presidential campaign of 1990. One of Walesa rally in Krakow was disturbed by the Anarchist Federation activists shouting "Down with fascism".

Walesa frequented "fascist" even after his victory. When half a year later met with his followers in the church of St.. Brigid in Gdansk, Adam Michnik is it associated the favor Mussolini from the balcony. "It smells corporationism, which built its power Mussolini, Salazar, Franco, and a few dictators in South America" - commented later Wiktor Osiatyński.

Scary cowboy
Leading "fascist" 90s was, however, no politician, but a showman - Wojciech Cejrowski. "Brown Cowboy Republic" - a title given to "Gazeta Wyborcza" accusatory article on the television program "WC Kwadrans".

jon357: He is a kind gentle person of 96.

As much as many ex-SS guys.