Elections in poland are still being counted, but these elections have already been called historic, the most important for poland after the fall of communism. Why . First, the extremely high turnout 73. 5 . Secondly, the ruling party law and justice did not receive a mandate for a third term. According to preliminary forecasts, peace, although gaining the most votes, will lose its majority in the parliament. The three opposition parties all together received much more votes. So they can form the government. The polish sejm is the lower house of the parliament and it can look like this blue marking the place of law and justice. Decent blacks of the farright confederation. Others are opposition forces. Yellow color Civil Coalition, red left. Green is the third way. There are 460 seats in the diet. For most it is necessary. 231 seats, and the opposition gains such a number, unlike the leader peace, but this is still data from exit polls and the preliminary results of vote counting, the fi
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Fair amount, i think. Ont i wanted to do is based some of the documents that james has put together, primarily the hungarian documents on the congresses. He sixth some sense of perspective for what you will be seeing or whether reporters will be seen seeing this time around. And you can make yourself the comparisons of what is very new. First thing to note, of course, is that what is important, and it becomes clear in the hungarian documents, the lens that you bring to the congress will influence your interpretation of what is going on. It is not a great insight, but you need to keep bearing that in mind. The lens that the North Koreans bring to the congress will not be our lens. So our interpretation of what there was is liable to be different from the way that somebody in the north korean leadership and somebody like the man on the street will see it. There is utility to comparisons between and among the various congresses. But you have to be very careful, because these congresses ar
Always worse. That is not just true in this country. It is not a black or white thing. Go to any country where the give and take of democracy has been repealed by one party rolls, and oneparty rule and i will show you a country that does not work. Democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right and you still have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you will not get what you want. If you do not get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. That will lead to more cynicism and less participation and a downward spiral of more injustice, anger and despair. And that has never been a source of progress. That is how we cheat ourselves of progress. We remember dr. Kings soaring oratory. The power of his letter from a birmingh