Voting PiS: Voting Left when Voting Far-Right Populist?

Abstract

Populist, especially far-right populist, parties have gained votes in recent elections across Europe recently. This observation is true for Poland as well. The far-right populist party Law and Justice (PiS, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) won the parliamentary election in 2015. Next to the well-known nativist and populist messages, PiS promoted a social policy: the Family 500+ programme. Did this programme attract voters? The findings of this study lend reason to answer the question in the affirmative. The inclusion of social policies usually associated with left-wing parties might hence be a path to be explored by other far-right populist parties as well.

New Polish Right – politeness and radicalism. A corpus analysis of Krzysztof Bosak’s (de)legitimation strategies on twitter

“…2. Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ; PiS – Poland’s ruling party since 2015. Regarding its ideology, the formation is considered to be right-wing or even far-right (Siemsen, 2020). …”