Law and Justice

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Law and Justice

political party, Poland

Also known as: PiS, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość

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Poland
Poland in the 21st century
…fell to the centre-right party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; PiS), with its founders, identical twins Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, attaining the posts of president (2005) and prime minister (2006), respectively. In 2007 the PiS abandoned its coalition partners—the scandal-plagued Self-Defense Party and the League of Polish Families—and called…
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…fell to the centre-right party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; PiS), with its founders, identical twins Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, attaining the posts of president (2005) and prime minister (2006), respectively. In 2007 the PiS abandoned its coalition partners—the scandal-plagued Self-Defense Party and the League of Polish Families—and called…
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Beata Szydło
…minister of Poland after the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; PiS) party won an absolute majority in the Sejm (legislature) in the October 2015 national election. Szydło served as prime minister until December 2017, when she was replaced as the head of the PiS government by Mateusz Morawiecki. She…
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…minister of Poland after the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; PiS) party won an absolute majority in the Sejm (legislature) in the October 2015 national election. Szydło served as prime minister until December 2017, when she was replaced as the head of the PiS government by Mateusz Morawiecki. She…
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