Consequences of lex Tusk for Polish politics and economy

Over the past week, many opinions were heard regarding the unconstitutionality of the law establishing a state commission to investigate Russia’s influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in 2007–2022. There have been many comments regarding the motives that prompted the PiS leadership to create the commission just before the June 4 march. It seems that this problem is quite clear in both dimensions. The move violates democratic standards of the rule of law, and its implementation is an implementation of the notorious “chasing the rabbit” strategy, which aims to restore the polarization that has weakened in recent weeks and reduce political infighting again. for the choice between Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk.

However, there are three other, less obvious and intuitive, conclusions drawn from the confusion surrounding Tusk’s lex. We are talking – first of all – about the possible beginning of the end of the era of political duopoly that has lasted for almost 20 years in Poland. Second, about the experience of limited sovereignty of semi-peripheral countries in the era of so-called monitoring democracy and the globalization of public opinion. Third, and finally, about the degree of dependence of our economy on neoliberal global capitalism, which not only determines our political choices, but also results in an unfavorable distribution of costs and benefits of international business activities from a Polish perspective. The reaction to the controversial act only shed light on the trial.

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