The president of poland in Sweden – Radio Sweden

the 44-year-old Andrzej Duda was elected to the Polish president last spring that it nationalkonservativa party PiS, or Law and Justice candidate and his victory gave a taste of how the political winds would blow in the Polish parliamentary elections in the autumn of the same year. The party PiS now have our own majority in the Sejm, the Polish parliament and the opposition in Poland is more divided than in a long time.

The left-wing parties as was previously represented lost the elections big and now lacks brand influence at the national level. The president of the republic of Poland has the power to both initiate legislation and put its veto against it.

Andrzej Dudas case, it has been in the large since he took office has been to sign the laws that his former party colleagues in the PiS pushed through. Some popular reforms that the long-awaited child allowance at the equivalent of more than a thousand dollars per child after the first. But also a number of very controversial laws, both in Poland and of international actors such as the council of europe and the EUROPEAN commission has been seen as grundlagsvidriga and undemocratic. Not the least of the new law.

now handles the president letter from the a large number of families who oppose the government’s decision to have their loved one’s graves to be dug up in the hunt for new evidence about the plane crash near Smolensk in 2010. Now hope the families that the president will intervene and listen to their desire to let the families rest in peace. But so far they have not received some reassurance.

Both the governing party PiS and the president of Duda is still supported by a large part of the population, but both have lost some of this support in the autumn.
the people behind The PiS, in addition to their strong conservative and religious kärnväljare, is above all those who hope for a big shift away from the liberal economic policies that have characterized Poland in the decades after the fall of the berlin wall.

During the visit to sweden will of the president to meet the king and queen, the government and Swedish companies. He gives no interviews to the Swedish media.

Thella Johnson, Helsinki
thella.johnson@sverigesradio.se