The Law and Justice party is tapping into conservative attitudes to gain votes by opposing adoption to same-sex couples
a president and a prime minister. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the nationalist Law and Justice party, is its true ruler. From party headquarters on Warsaw’s Nowogrodzka, above a pool club,has moved Poland in a strikingly illiberal direction since coming to power in 2015. At parliamentary elections on October 13th,is offering voters lavish handouts, social conservatism and what Mr Kaczynski calls the fight for “Polish dignity”.
Uncharacteristic because the party also presents itself as the protector of the traditional Polish family. A future opposition government would be dominated by forces that want “the radical destruction of the moral and cultural order” in Poland, warned Mr Kaczynski in an interview with a conservative television channel owned by a Roman Catholic priest, on October 2nd. Portraying refugees from the Middle East as a danger to national security helpedwin the election in 2015.
The opposition has struggled to respond. Three-quarters of Poles oppose gay adoption, polls suggest, and Civic Platform does not even dare to back gay marriage. After failing to agree on a broad coalition, the anti-parties will contest the election as three blocs: centrists led by Civic Platform, agrarians, and the left, made up of the old social democrats plus Wiosna , a progressive party founded earlier this year by a gay-rights campaigner.
Despite facing surgery on his knee after the elections, Mr Kaczynski, who turned 70 in June, has campaigned around Poland, handing out promises. The technical side of governing is managed by Mateusz Morawiecki, a former bank boss, whom Mr Kaczynski promoted to prime minister in December 2017. Polls putfar in the lead; one this week gives it 43% of the vote, compared with the centrists’ 28%.
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