A triumph of the Anti-EU right. This is, in a nutshell, the result of the political elections in Poland, which saw the clear victory of the Law and Justice party (PiS), led by the former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and by the candidate Beata Szydio, who will be able to form a government on her own, without looking for allies.
Law and Justice, according to the surveys, would have received 39,1% of the votes against 24,3% for Civic Platform (Po), the party of the current premier Ewa Kopacz, and will be able to count on 242 deputies out of a total of 460 in the lower house, the Sejm.
Pis's victory, though indisputable, has already aroused the concern of Europe, frightened by the prospects of a new nationalist and anti-euro government, opposed to Poland's entry into the currency union, which could also launch new policies on the very delicate issue of migrants.
And some uncertainties also lurk around the role of 66-year-old Kaczynski who, after leading the country between 2005 and 2007, will not hold any official office, but will nevertheless dictate the political line of a country in which the two main offices, that of prime minister and head of state (Andrzej Duda) are held by people indicated by Kaczynski himself. Some experts also believe it possible that Beata Szydio could soon leave him the post of prime minister.
The line of the new Polish government can already be outlined: closure towards immigrants and the euro, more NATO bases in the country and a renewal of the army, in addition to the withdrawal of the pension reform introduced by the centrists and the increase in taxes for banks and for large companies operating in Poland.
