Poland's upcoming elections have been called the most important since the fall of communism in 1989.
Poles will vote next Sunday in what opposition leader Donald Tusk has billed as their "most important election since 1989 and the fall of communism".
Warsaw has also pursued a confrontational approach towards the EU and been accused of undermining democratic standards. "We are not afraid of diktats... from Berlin and Brussels," says Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.The ruling party, in office since 2015 and led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is ahead in the polls but may struggle to form a coalition to win an outright majority.
The far-right Confederation party - Konfederacja in Polish - could play a crucial role in getting Law and Justice enough seats to stay in power.Law and Justice have stepped up anti-migrant rhetoric, warning that the EU and the opposition want to force Muslim migrants on an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. The government has refused to take in asylum-seekers who enter the EU in other countries.
But as the campaign became increasingly heated, the government indicated that Ukraine was showing a lack of gratitude and President Andrzej Duda compared his neighbour to a sinking person dragging a rescuer to the bottom. It has also been accused of politicising the judiciary by capturing the body that nominates judges in Poland, staffing the Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court with sympathetic judges, and bringing in rules to punish judges who criticised government reforms.
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