kropekuk
09.11.05, 15:35
>>Poland's conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), which won the recent
parliamentary elections and saw its candidate, Lech Kaczynski, win the
presidential election, always promised to launch its government with a
fanfare.
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It has been true to its word. After just a few days in office, ministers have
started a purge of the police and intelligence services, scrapped the post of
women's minister and denigrated foreign hypermarkets, headed by the UK's
Tesco. Investors, who had hoped PiS would form a coalition with the liberal
Civic Platform, have been plunged into uncertainty by the prospect of a
minority PiS government ruling with the support of rightwing and leftwing
Eurosceptic populists./.../
PiS can perhaps best be seen as modern-day Gaullist. The risk is that
excessive contemporary Polish Gaullism could be a dangerous anachronism,
generating the wrong - defensive - responses to globalisation. Poland's
future lies in international economic and political co-operation, notably in
the European Union. <<
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