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Originally Posted by Lancer44
Jim is right - all politicians are opportunists...but some are like prostitutes.
Today Polish Families League - part of governing coalition started to talk about lifting 5% electoral limit for ethnic minorities.
Shame!
They talk mainly about German minority to get popular support of their sclerotic electorate. "Mohair berets"...
In Poland beside very splinter groups, counted in fraction of percentage points, are 3 major ethnic minorities: German, Ukrainian and Belarussian.
All of them deserve to have their representation in Parliament.
Therefore Constitution granted them privilege that their candidates don't need to reach minimum 5% of the votes like any political party.
Now ducks want to change it because this move seems to be the only way to gain some votes.
Opposition is constantly gaining support and nationalists are loosing.
Let's hope nationalists will not last long.
Lancer44
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As Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries observed:
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Put another way, power is addicitive, and is an aphrodesiac of sorts. Once held, one often does anything to retain it.