Landmark Polish election
The Polish election of last Sunday featured a few unusual elements: both major parties fielded a female candidate as leader, and it’s the first time since Poland threw off the Communist yoke in 1989 that a party has won an absolute majority in the Polish parliament.
Oh, and that party was a conservative one as these things are defined in Europe. So the new Prime Minister will most likely be Beata Szydlo of the Law and Justice Party.
What does this all mean? Well, according to the Telegraph, it’s a “nail in the coffin” of a closer EU:
Although the party is not anti-European Union (as some lazy commentators tend to suggest), it is very much sceptical of deeper European integration as a desirable end in of itself, and it also wants Poland to assert its national interest more forcefully in a number of key areas ranging from energy and climate policies to the EU’s stance towards Russia. The key point is that while Poles still overwhelmingly back EU membership, they want a greater degree of control over its development and direction.
A PiS led government will also break with the previous Civic Platform (PO)-led government’s approach to the refugee crisis which tried to accommodate expectations of “European solidarity” with a sceptical public. The issue dominated the last couple of months of the campaign and the results illustrate there is no appetite to cede sovereignty in such a sensitive area.
Good.
Unlike the winners of a couple of other recent elections, Szydlo has been a politician for quite some time. However, the third-party candidate was more in line with recent trends: Paweł Kukiz, a Polish singer and actor who started his own party that bears his name, received about 21% of the votes.
And note the recent victory of the more Euro skeptic party in the Portuguese elections albeit a party of the left.
However in Portugal the pro EU president is refusing to allow the winning coalition to form a government (this story is a few days old so the situation might have changed but even if it has it’s notable that democracy can be overridden when it goes against entrenched interests).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11949701/AEP-Eurozone-crosses-Rubicon-as-Portugals-anti-euro-Left-banned-from-power.html
Smart them Polskis who needs a *closer EU*
that would just mean loss of more rights & more directives to *taken in more Moslems*. The Battle of Vienna was not *lost* on these folks !
Expect more of this in Europe, especially in Germany and Sweden. People tend to get nervous in the face of a barbarian invasion. Shotguns are flying off the gun racks in Austria and the majority of buyers are women. This is a good thing, people, especially women, are coming to realize their governments do not have their best interests at heart and have no desire to protect them from the barbarian hordes.
Let’s hope the Europeans respond quickly enough to save their countries. Women who have been active in emasculating their men are awakening to just how vulnerable they have made themselves.