Poland’s Reckoning with Populist Misrule
Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his new government face the monumental challenge of rooting out corruption and politicization across all of the country’s major institutions. Fortunately, while the previous government sought to capture the Polish state, it didn’t finish the job.
WARSAW – It has been a month since Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government took office, and the task now is to rebuild Polish democracy after eight years of corrupt misrule under Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice (PiS) party. No country in Europe has ever faced a political transition quite like this one.