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Michael Richter

Dr. Michael Richter is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at the University of Surrey within the Horizon Europe REDEMOS project on European Union democracy promotion.

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Opinion: Why the Polish elections are good news for Ukraine

by Michael Richter
The story around the Polish parliamentary elections earlier this month is one of a country at a crossroads. It was said that these were the most important elections since 1989, as a further Law and Justice (PiS) government would have cemented an increasingly illiberal system. In Western media outlets, the opposition’s victory was therefore celebrated as a triumph of a new liberal democratic trajectory. Warsaw’s two potential trajectories cover not only domestic politics but also the question of