{"id":117862,"date":"2023-10-23T07:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T04:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/poland-election-women-and-youth-force-pis-from-power\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T07:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T04:25:41","slug":"poland-election-women-and-youth-force-pis-from-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/poland-election-women-and-youth-force-pis-from-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland election: Women and youth force PiS from power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117862\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe entertainment blogger had been queuing in the biting cold with hundreds of others for six hours, long after the polls should have closed. The giant queue has become a symbol of the high level of engagement with Poland&#8217;s parliamentary election, where a record high turnout of over 74% ousted the right-wing Law and Justice party, or PiS, from power. &#8220;People gave us blankets, hot tea, cookies. The hospitality of residents in that area was incredible!&#8221; said the 26-year-old of his long wait to vote.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, a group of women broke into song. At another, a local pizza company delivered heaps of free food. The firm was so inundated with donations the next day from grateful Poles, it began redirecting the cash to charity. Szymon never once thought of giving up and going home. &#8220;We&#8217;re building our future and I think a lot of young people understood that,&#8221; the blogger told me from Wroclaw. He didn&#8217;t want to reveal who he voted for but was &#8220;happy with the way things turned out.The queue was long and painful because it was so cold. But the people made it a cool experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final ballot in Polling Station 148 was cast by Michal Wittenbeck, who posted a photograph of his watch on social media to record the moment. Polls show that 68.8% of voters aged under 29 turned out on Sunday, a major surge from 46.4% at the last parliamentary election in 2019. More young people cast their ballots this time than the over-60s, which is also highly unusual. Many of them voted for change. Wroclaw is a case in point: Jagodno, the suburb with the huge queue, is described by locals as a modern estate with a young population. The opposition Civic Coalition won 43.6% there. PiS got just 5.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The major parties didn&#8217;t pay particular attention to the youth vote during an extremely negative election campaign. Instead, the government claimed Civic Coalition would bring chaos, including unlimited migration, and called its leader Donald Tusk a stooge of Europe. Mr Tusk went on the attack too, painting PiS and its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, as a threat to democracy itself.<\/p>\n<p>On ballot-count day, students outside the University library in Warsaw were glued to their phones nervously checking for updates to the election result between lectures. Marta had &#8220;cried with excitement&#8221; when the first exit poll was published on Sunday night, showing that PiS had lost its majority in parliament and was unlikely to form a government. The PiS government has been locked in dispute with Brussels over the rule of law, LGBT rights and migration amongst other things. Donald Tusk, a former president of the European Council, is expected to bring more constructive relations.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Tusk&#8217;s Civic Coalition is now expected to form the next government with two parties on the left and centre right<br \/>\n&#8220;If you want to take away the PiS mandate, leave the big city,&#8221; a typical post read on social media, reassuring people that such strategic voting was perfectly legal. In one constituency close to Warsaw, the campaign saw Civic Coalition win slightly more votes than PiS. In 2019, the result was 41%-29% to PiS.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that this election was a last chance to stop a populist government from turning Poland away from the EU and some of its core values was a major motivator. So was the chance to give women a bigger say in Polish politics, especially after a near-ban on abortion prompted enormous street protests in 2020. &#8220;The women of this country have been silent for too long,&#8221; said Anna Pieta, who helped organise a social media campaign. PiS has many women supporters, thanks largely to its generous programme of social spending including child benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-67156864\">BBC<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/poland-election-women-and-youth-force-pis-from-power\/\">Poland election: Women and youth force PiS from power<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,1641,11938,568,3785],"class_list":["post-117862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-election","tag-pland","tag-women","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}