‘Budapest in Warsaw’ <\/strong><\/p>\nDuda may be president and PiS colleague Beata Szydlo prime minister, but the undisputed boss of Poland’s populist, Catholic right is Kaczynski.<\/p>\n
The PiS leader is known for being a fan of the political model of Hungarian hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has cracked down on \u00a0media freedoms and the justice system in his country.<\/p>\n
“The day will come when we’ll make it, we’ll have Budapest in Warsaw,” Kaczynski said in 2011 after the general election won by rival party the PO.<\/p>\n
More recently, he has repeatedly said that his goal is to “fix” Poland\u2014for which he needs the cooperation of the secret services, the top court and state media.<\/p>\n
Just days after Szydlo’s cabinet obtained parliament’s vote of confidence, the government replaced the heads of four of the country’s intelligence services.<\/p>\n
The head of the fifth, the Central Anti-corruption Bureau (CBA) resigned a couple of days later.<\/p>\n
Duda also pardoned the controversial former head of the CBA, Mariusz Kaminski, who was found guilty last March of overstepping his jurisdiction as CBA chief and sentenced to three years behind bars.<\/p>\n
After the pardon, the PiS government named Kaminski intelligence service coordinator.<\/p>\n
Then came the ongoing constitutional crisis, as the PiS and the PO feud over whose judges should serve in the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n
Masking reality<\/strong><\/p>\nDuda had refused to swear in the judges elected by the former liberal parliamentary majority by saying it “violated the democratic order” to appoint two new judges before their predecessors’ terms were up.<\/p>\n
The Court agreed that two of the five judges were chosen prematurely but also faulted Duda for refusing to swear in the remaining three.<\/p>\n
After the ruling, Duda said he would set up a working group to reform the Court, notably how judges are elected.<\/p>\n
Next up is an overhaul of state media, which Kaczynski has accused of masking reality “behind a screen on which a film is projected for the little people.”<\/p>\n
The PiS has plans to turn the PAP news agency and public television and radio\u2014all currently state-owned businesses\u2014into national cultural institutions like the opera or the national museum.<\/p>\n
Kaczynski claims the state media was politicized by the previous government.<\/p>\n
Culture Minister Piotr Glinski has said that attempts to buy out foreign shareholding in private media groups would possibly start as early as the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Foreign stakeholders, especially German, are common in private Polish media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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