Tusk promised on his 2023 campaign trail to undo the near-total ban on abortion introduced by the PiS government.
what many women see as Tusk’s most glaring broken promise: failing to overturn the near-total abortion ban imposed by PiS.
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Isn’t it a huge problem that the president is blocking almost everything that’s even slightly progressive? Turning away now, right before they have a chance to actually change things if the presidential election goes well seems like a bad idea
This almost reads like a propaganda piece right out of Russia’s playbook in order to keep PiS in power…
This is what’s happening. Current president vetoes all changes and directs them to Constitutional Court held by judges assigned (unlawfully) by the current opposition party that then rules it is unconstitutional. Game over. In addition to all the pardons recently issued, nothing will change unless we elect a new president not connected to former ruling party (PiS) in any way.
So, other commenters who are very furious and obviously not from Poland should now reevaluate their reasons to be mad.
And the article might be an attempt to spin the narration away from currently evolving scandal concerning independent presidential candidate backed by the former ruling party (PiS, party of current president). Please be aware that we have elections very soon…
I’m not Polish or from Poland, but I guess women and political allies face the double endurance test of hoping for a gendered violence regime change and staying a diverse, but ultimately united and politically active front.
I am so mad.
When are we intending to learn that “turning away” no longer works and “turning towards” is the only workable system that doesn’t end right back in fascism?
Look, I get it, it sucks when you support a politician with a mandate and then they don’t deliver. Or when you support someone as an alternative despite misalignment on the mandate and then it turns out they’re not doing your agenda but the one you supported while holding your nose. It sucks.
But it’s now a legit functional electoral strategy for extremists to be ousted, have the middle-of-the-road centrist frustrate their progressive one-time electors and result in a return to power of the far right everybody agrees is a worse alternative. That’s objectively worse.
The real question is not why centre-right liberals keep frustrating progressives with broken promises and slow action. The question is why does that translate into disengagement instead of left-wing alternatives gaining support. It is a constant throughout for the far right to effectively capitalize on every single bit of discontent by either converting right-leaning people or disengaging left-leaning people from the system altogether. Where is the left-wing populism? Why are they absent from this conversation? How much do you need to suck at politics to fail to build any amount of momentum under these circumstances?
The question is why does that translate into disengagement instead of left-wing alternatives gaining support
because people aren’t ready for the fully automated luxury gay space communism, and they want better things for themselves, and not for everyone else around them.
People in Poland don’t want communism and never will.
Nah.
Not even as a joke, and this is extremely not a joke, unfortunately.
And whatever, then the question becomes why that. Why is the left wing trapped in endless variations of a prisoner’s dilemma but the right is able to weaponize modern social dynamics effortlessly. Either way it’s a failure of the space.
It is so annoying that instead of solving the problem of abortion and rights of LGBT people, these issues are still being talked about. There’s no harm in being more liberal in these areas. There are far more important areas to focus on, such as public health, energy and the environment, fair wages, housing, migration, education and proper management of the state budget. They’re just wasting time as always.
