Orbán’s tactics failed again, PiS is angry
Kaczynski’s secret political weapon backfired. Turns out they employed Hungarian advisers for the failed campaign. At least that’s what a Polish newspaper said.
Seems like the Law and Justice (PiS) government that has been getting the most votes for the last 8 years will need even more to carry on now. Both the Sejm and the Upper House have opposition majorities. The Polish media is practically stating the change of government as a fact.
Naturally, Jaroslaw Kaczynskis’ party can still try stalling for time. To an equal degree, Andrzej Duda, president of the republic, can cause an inconvenience by entrusting the continuation to the forming of a minority government. It’s another can of worms that the next prime minister of Poland will most likely be Donald Tusk. He will govern the country as the head of a three-party coalition.
“The PiS has had better days: the party is trying to place the responsibility of this colossal failure. Names are being mentioned, including some who are advisers to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.”
comments the Polish newspaper Polytika.
After the resignation of Tomasz Poreba, the ruling party’s election guru, the campaign landed in the hands of Joachim Brudzinski. He is a representative of the EP and has quite conservative views. It is said that this change of staff opened the door for the party advisers of Viktor Orbán. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, president of PiS, believed that the increased staff and Hungarian ideas will lead to victory.
The newspaper doesn’t say from whom exactly the party got their information, but the PiS argument was that they can use the Hungarian model with a little bit of translating and integrating. According to Polytika, representatives of Fidesz were never personally present. However, they held sway in the development of the campaign.
“They did whatever they wanted. Morawiecki’s people reasoned that they would help us win third mandate, and to do so, we would just have to adapt what worked for them,” a source told the paper. However, the Hungarians had not taken into account the specificities of the Polish electoral system and the public mood.
That’s how the Polish ruling party’s campaign focus points included a referendum against the compulsory resettlement of migrants. This referendum was, coincidentally, held on the same day as the elections. You can read more about it HERE.
This idea might ring a bell to our Hungarian readers, since in 2022, there was also a referendum on election day, only the topic was ‘child protection’.
The Hungarians also persuaded the PiS campaign advisers to give Donald Tusk a run for his money. According to the PiS allied politicians, this also backfired. They state that it only motivated those rooting for the opposition to mobilise.
The disillusioned PiS campaign advisers put the blame on Jaroslaw Kaczynski as well. “He agreed to the expanding of the staff and honestly believed that Orbáns’ advisers would bring him success. It’s a pity he wasn’t surrounded by people who would’ve told him this couldn’t work in our country.”
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I don’t know if Hungarian advisers were really involved, but I live in Poland and can say that those under 40 or so mostly can’t stand PiS and when you get into the larger cities they overwhelmingly can’t stand PiS.
Two elections in a row is the limit for a political party in Poland before the electorate wants them out.
Nothing PiS was offering was remotely appealing for those not dependent on government handouts and/or with education.
Greatest advisers in the world can’t do much with that….
Actually, PiS is still the largest party in the Polish Parliament, but that is inconvenient for the narrative.
Cliff, it’s like Fidesz in big cities in Hungary. No one stands them. They only won the election because they bought votes with beers and food from the countryside. You can check the election map from 2022’s election
Anonymous – and let it be HOPED, that the numbers, the results of the “manipulated” 2022 Hungarian elections, that the “people of the soil” those living in our countryside, they MUST be getting SMASHED, in there possible, the debilitation, erosion that continues disappearing of there life qualities.
The Rich get Richer and the Poor grow in increasing gargantuan numbers in Hungary.
That is a statement of FACT, but the word truth, we know from the Orban Government, has NEVER been used/applied, in there Governance of Hungary, that see’s us, after over 14 years under Orban, descending deeper into a “mire” that its nadir/bottom, remains a blackened deep hole.
WHAT a price we are PAYING.
AF, having the most MP’s from a single party doesn’t matter since they don’t have a majority and no party will agree to a coalition with them (they’ve backstabbed too many partners in the past and any party working with them will be demolished in next year’s local elections).
So… the ‘won’ but can’t do anything with it.
Not sure if there is a lesson for Fidesz here, either. Until there is a credible opposition, Fidesz will continue to win. Where is Hungary’s Donald Tusk? At least in Poland he is not trying to form a government from a coalition that contains Greens and neo-Nazis.