FROM RYWIN TO SMOLENSK – NEW (SOLIDIFY) SOCIO-POLITICAL DIVISIONS
IN POLAND
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adiunkt w zakładzie Instytucji Europejskich Instytutu Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-21
Studia Politologiczne 2013;29
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ABSTRACT
This article’s aim is to outline the stimulators of the division of Polish society.
Maintained since the beginning of transformations, a quite stable historical division
between post-communist and post-Solidarity camp, ceased to play a dominant
role after 14 years. The crisis within the largest party on the left side of the
political spectrum and then a collapse of the existing monolith, started significant
transformations in Polish politics. The loss of public support for the coalition of
the Democratic Left Alliance and the Labour Union has eliminated these parties
with further, real struggle for power, leaving competing parties derived from the
Solidarity camp. The presidential and parliamentary election campaign of 2005
revealed a new axis of the dispute, which has found its symbolic reflected in
two variants of Poland, a “Solidarity” and “liberal” ones. Still exciting, but much
less than a few years ago, it remains a matter of vetting, decommunisation and
deubekization. The meaning is not lost and the philosophical issues, including
the dispute over the role and place of the Church in public life, attitude towards
abortion and in vitro, seem to play a dominant role. New lines of “sharing” sets today, first of all proportion to the Smolensk disaster, the country’s modernization,
and further integration of Poland with the European Union, in particular the
adoption of a common currency, Euro.
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