Poland to get a very Bullingdon president?
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by OHC in United Kingdom
The likely next President of Poland was a member of the Bullingdon Club at the same time as Cameron and Boris. When at Oxford, BoJo even hazed Radosław Sikorski by wrecking his room in true Bullingdon style!
Now that the Civic Platform’s leader Donald Tusk has ruled himself out, Sikorski is the front runner for the party’s nomination. The classical liberal Civic Platform (Ed: sound!) is the largest party in Parliament, followed by the Conservatives’ allies Law and Justice.
Tusk just lost out to the Law and Justice candidate Lech Kaczyński in the presidential election in 2005. But DC’s friend Sikorski was a Law and Justice MP until 2007, making him likely to steal away any floating voters and would surely win any run-off.
Either way, Cameron will have a firm ally in Poland. The old boys network travels far.
Obywatelska are hardly “classical liberal”, they’re far more Christian democrat.
Their rhetoric is, no doubt, but that’s a product of Poland’s religiosity. Christian democrats aren’t nearly as pro-free market as Civic Platform are. With a broad national consensus on most social issues, PO are the most liberal on the ones that are debated (e,g. gambling), so are the equivalent of market or classical liberals.