On the Way to the Fourth Republic?
The Parliamentary Elections in Poland, September 25, 2005
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The conservative forces of the parties Law and Justice and Civic Platform emerged the clear winners in Poland’s parliamentary elections. The governing United Democratic Left by contrast lost three-fourths of its voters. With that, the Polish party system still remains only rudimentarily stable. Law and Justice and Civic Platform have announced their intention to form the next government, but tensions between national-conservative, statist, and Euro-sceptical Law and Justice and bourgeois-liberal Civic Platform are starting to show. Law and Justice will be able to realise its project of a Fourth Republic only in moderated form – if at all.
(Osteuropa 10/2005, pp. 135–148)