The Return of Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice party is back in the saddle in Poland, after receiving almost 40% of the vote in last weekend’s general election. The paradox of Kaczyński's power is that the most essential tasks of government – economic stewardship, military readiness, social policy, and the environment – do not interest him.
WARSAW – Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice (PiS) party is back in power, after receiving 37.6% of the vote in last weekend’s general election and soundly defeating the incumbent Civic Platform, which won 24.1%. Following Andrzej Duda’s victory in the presidential election in May, a single party will form Poland’s government for the first time since communism’s end in 1989.