Polish Lawmakers Protest Populists’ ‘Velvet Dictatorship’

Polish lawmaker Michal Stasinski arrived at parliament pulling a suitcase and carrying a bag filled with his mother’s homemade cabbage-and-mushroom stuffed dumplings. While most lawmakers were home for Christmas, Stasinski on Friday was joining a group of opposition lawmakers hunkering down in the dimly lit and chilly building to protest what they consider backsliding on democracy by a populist government whose anti-establishment and nationalistic views echo those of U.S. President-elect...

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