As Poland moves away from the rightwing PiS in favour of a likely coalition led by former PM Donald Tusk, four Poles speak of their hope for the future
moved away from democracy and towards autocracy. But after a landmark election on Sunday, that will probably see the ruling populist Law and Justice party leave government after eight years, Bałka said he’s relieved. “Whoever I talk to, it’s relief and hope,” he said. “And some anxiety – because it’s not yet the change in government.”
He was relieved that PiS has not questioned the integrity of the election result. “There were fears that they would try to do anything to stay in power,” he said. “You could tell that people were fed up with the government and they just wanted a change,” Collins, 46, said of the queue of Polish voters in Bristol, which she described as “such a nice atmosphere”. She arrived apprehensive about the chances of Tusk’s centre-left coalition forming a government; after speaking to voters in the line, she left thinking: “There is hope – maybe, just maybe!”
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