Opinion
Lucinda Creighton: Donald Tusk looks to drag Poland out of the dark
The Poles’ decision to eject the authoritarian populist PiS party from power shows that positive politics can trump negative nationalism
The election of Donald Tusk this week as prime minister of Poland feels like a seismic shift. Poland has been in a dark place for the past eight years, led by an increasingly authoritarian government which was characterised by an unceasing drive to centralise power, to unravel democratic institutions and to ostracise some of the weakest in Polish society.
The success of a broad coalition of opposition parties, led by Tusk, has resonances of the ...
