Many European commentators have described the Polish election result as a shift to the right - towards the eurosceptic and xenophobic policies pursued by the Law and Justice party when it was last in power.
What they fail to consider is that Andrzej Duda’s victory doesn’t so much reflect the will of the Polish electorate as the dysfunctionality of Poland’s political system.
If we look at the breakdown of votes by age, social class, and geography (the Law and Justice candidate was ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.