nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b1bfaaf9a82c1409 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251216s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/b1bfaaf9a82c1409 doi eng 342 23 Zomerski, Wojciech Author aut Populism Is Here to Stay - On the Perils of Democratic Restoration in Poland Zomerski, Wojciech Verfassungsblog 2025-12-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Following the presidential defeat of his preferred candidate in June 2025, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a former president of the European Council, recalibrated – or, more precisely, intensified – his strategy of imitating illiberal political forces, to the extent that his political rhetoric could easily be now mistaken for Orbán’s. What are the implications of this troubling development for what is, in fact, at least in the recent European context, a Polish speciality: the process of democratic restoration? CC BY-SA 4.0 Democratic Backsliding Democratic Restoration Donald Tusk Illiberal Democracy Illiberalism Poland Polen Populism Populismus Rule of Law Tusk Tusk Donald | 1957– | Regierungschef; Politiker; Historiker (DE-588)4046496-9 gnd Polen (DE-588)4129521-3 gnd Populismus (DE-588)122488547 gnd Tusk Donald | 1957– | Regierungschef; Politiker; Historiker Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/populism-poland/ raw object