Ah yes. PO, that introduced the idea of parliamentary scrutiny over the secret services, PO, that introduced the idea of the rotating chairmanship to ensure no funny games, PO, that respected the convention of every party having a deputy speaker... and so on.
Yes PO that is guilty of so many transgressions against the sprit of the law and corruption that I lost the count, more than you have hairs on your head.
Poor Ironside. Even Polonius saw fit to condemn the actions of PiS.
I don't see his condemnation, never mind. I don't have to condone or condemn anything because I'm not PiS constituency and I didn't vote them, I'm glad they have majority and I'm waiting to see what they are going to do with it.
That's why the voters made sure that PiS can't change the constitution, isn't it?
Hmm voters or forces behind the curtains?
Constitution sucks.
Centrist? With a hard left economic policy and centre-right to right wing social policy, centrist is not what they are.
They are not hard left economically. Not at all.
Social policy? I gather you mean progressiveness like in gays privileges and gender nonsense? They would be center-right according to western standards but in Poland they are simply better reflecting opinions of the majority of Poles on those issues. In Poland they are firmly in the center, they might claim their are right but most parties in Poland claim to be that, even PO because left for many means communism.
PO was mostly based on opportunists without spine or morals and they were seemly copying what give them support from the western media and some western circles but their standing wasn't based on convictions, if burning on stake of gays would became a fashion again in western countries they wouldn't have bated an eye, it would be those PiS people you are bashing who would not stand for it.
what does "centrist" actually mean?
Means they are reflecting ideas and views of majority of an average Pole. They are not radical in any way, if anything their are very timid in articulating Polish interests and rather soft in applying policies Polish national interest demands.
The suck up to the USA and Israel. That can't be good, mind you still better than PO a puppet of Germany and France.
In France, we say that those claiming to be "centrist" are ashamed
In Poland left do not sits well with majority of voters and centrist do no apply to people who are being swayed by emotions in their political choices, hence PiS and PO like a many other parties in Poland claim to be right.
PiS is clearly on the left in terms of economics
Which country left do you compare PiS to? France? Britain? The difference lays in the pudding. What do you mean by economics?
the right in terms of societal issues
Yeah because Polish society is more "right" when you are talking about sex, gender related issues and also because those are problems of the rich society.