Mikeingale

A voice from Hungary: "We don’t have to look long at the events in Warsaw to recognize this spectacle for what it is —PiS is enacting the exact same hysteria that Fidesz staged here at home when, after the elections, the new majority adopted the 16th and 17th amendments to the constitution, removing people like Péter Polt or President Sulyok from office. We know this mechanism by heart. Tusk’s team is currently cleaning up the Constitutional Tribunal, which had been packed with party commissars, and from the right comes the exact same crying session about a 'coup d'état' and 'lawlessness.' Fallen power everywhere reacts the same way when it loses its safeguards: first, they entrench themselves in institutions to paralyze the work of the new government. And when the legal institution starts to work, they scream about tyranny. Even the political scenery is spot on: the radically [nationalist] Confederation throws itself onto the barricades in defense of PiS, exactly like Mi Hazánk stands at attention here whenever Fidesz needs a sidekick to stir up trouble on the street. And those stories about a 'rebellion of the entire nation'? It’s the same grim joke as it is here: in front of the Tribunal building, barely a few hundred—maybe at most a thousand or two thousand—party fanatics are shouting behind barricades, and by nightfall, barely a handful of them remain. It looks just as grotesque as Orbán’s party trying to organize street resistance after their April defeat, when maybe 500 people showed up with flags for their 'grand protest.' The will of the voters cannot be nullified by partisan prosecutors—neither in Warsaw nor in Budapest. The government in Poland now has only one task: not to back down an inch and finish cleaning up this lawlessness before next year's elections. Because most people voted for you precisely so you would have the courage to do it."