The liberal leader Donald Tusk, with his political allies, was able to form a coalition to defeat the incumbent rightwing nationalist party. This was achieved by enthusing thousands of young voters to turn out and to vote for the progressive ticket.
How much effect has the crash of 2008-09 and the resulting austerity had? The parallels with the decade from 1929 to 1939 cannot be taken too far, but people are far less concerned with immigration when they feel secure and well off.
The generation in question is now ignorant of the lessons of the second world war. Anybody born from the 1970s to the 1990s had a good chance of having older relatives who had lived through the conflict and told stories about it. There was an unspoken acceptance that voting for the far right was beyond the pale.
#far-right populist parties #general election #Poland #economics #far-right #Second World War #youth voters
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