There are hundreds of diagnoses about declining support for PiS, and they come from everywhere. Right-wingers are pulling their hair out (sometimes far beneath their dignity), Tusk’s supporters are cackling, others are asking questions.
For example, editor Tomasz Żółciak of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna wonders:
Do you see this sharp drop in PiS’s ratings, which never returned to their previous levels? Yes, exactly 3 years ago the #CC judgment on #abortion was made. Then PiS actually lost the elections. Sometimes game changers happen long before the election campaign.
Similarly, Bogdan Rymanowski, in conversation with Przemysław Czarnek, asked for comments on the impact of the Constitutional Court’s judgment on the weaker support for PiS.
Perhaps the critics of the 2020 ruling are right, but Evaluating such important decisions for Polish society through the prism of opinion polls and vote counts is destructive. Not all political steps are motivated by the desire to gain more or less support. Ideological political circles sometimes implement their demands regardless of the short-term consequences.
In a few years, will defenders of the ‘abortion compromise’ or abortion itself approach a mother with a child with Down syndrome and say: ‘Gosh, if they allowed you to abort the child, PiS could continue to rule’ ? A ridiculous confusion of concepts. Or perhaps law school lectures should say, “individual articles of the Constitution should be read through the prism of social moods and polls for decision makers”?
Therefore, those who judge the Constitutional Court’s ruling as a mistake due to declining support for the ruling party are missing two issues: law and human life.
In an era of widespread relativization, conservatives should at least take a step back. According to the Constitutional Tribunal, the Constitution of the Republic of Poland also protects human lives affected by diseases – and the cries of Marta Lempart and her TVNow fans should not affect this, even if it costs her the loss of power.
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Source: wPolityce