Szymon Martys Poland held elections on October 15 that ended the eight-year, two-term rule of the incumbent Law and Justice party and the United Right political alliance centred on it.
Days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, global news outlets cast Poland as a humanitarian superpower.
Poles opened their homes to hundreds of thousands of refugees, offered transport, handed out hot soup and warm words of welcome. The government, too, sought to position itself as Kyiv’s champion