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> PiS maintains power through a process similar to gerrymandering. Their base is at around 30% and they acquired power by strategically crafting a message speci

> PiS maintains power through a process similar to gerrymandering. Their base is at around 30% and they acquired power by strategically crafting a message specifically aimed at appealing to the most vulnerable and uneducated segment of the population I don't disagree with rest of your comment. But that's nothing like gerrymandering. It's pure politics. Gerrymandering is choosing your voters, by meddling with an importance of each single vote. Politics is knowing your base and crafting message at them. No sane political party in the world tries to craft their policies to make everyone happy. Knowing your voters and telling them what they want to hear is politics 101.

scyzoryk_xyz 5y ago
Gerrymandering involves playing and redrawing the map to fit your electorate. PiS was accused of doing this in 2018 when attempts were made to do a large scale restructuring of the entire Warsaw region and the peripheries (where the PiS voters are in larger numbers) but the investigation wasn’t followed through. What’s more PiS has pushed through voting to happen mostly on Sundays when priests can literally tell people at scale to vote and who to vote for. It isn’t much of a secret that rural communities and towns apply pressures on citizens to vote for the correct choice. This is part of the Pegasus argument - that PiS uses many dirty tricks which take them beyond standard politics 101
- kgabis 5y ago
  Carving Warsaw out of Mazowieckie would be very beneficial to Warsaw itself because it wouldn't depend on PiS wojewoda anymore, too bad this idea has died out. And voting in Poland has always happened on Sundays.
garaetjjte 5y ago
There's also thing of organizing contests to increase turnout (that districts with highest turnout will get extra fire truck) in rural areas, in order to improve their results, as they have higher support in rural areas than cities.

scyzoryk_xyz 5y ago

Gerrymandering involves playing and redrawing the map to fit your electorate. PiS was accused of doing this in 2018 when attempts were made to do a large scale restructuring of the entire Warsaw region and the peripheries (where the PiS voters are in larger numbers) but the investigation wasn’t followed through. What’s more PiS has pushed through voting to happen mostly on Sundays when priests can literally tell people at scale to vote and who to vote for. It isn’t much of a secret that rural communities and towns apply pressures on citizens to vote for the correct choice. This is part of the Pegasus argument - that PiS uses many dirty tricks which take them beyond standard politics 101

kgabis 5y ago
Carving Warsaw out of Mazowieckie would be very beneficial to Warsaw itself because it wouldn't depend on PiS wojewoda anymore, too bad this idea has died out. And voting in Poland has always happened on Sundays.

garaetjjte 5y ago

There's also thing of organizing contests to increase turnout (that districts with highest turnout will get extra fire truck) in rural areas, in order to improve their results, as they have higher support in rural areas than cities.