The presidential election which has just ended in Poland (May 18 and 1er June) and which led to the victory of the nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki has shown it again: Poland is a country which votes 80 % on the right, of which barely 30 % for the moderate right. The first round of the ballot saw an unprecedented thrust of a very extreme right, at 21 %, and a score of around 30 % for a nationalism which passes for “conservative” in Warsaw, but which in fact remains much more radical, on the substance as in form, than the French national rally.
Suffice to say that, in such a context, the supply of reactionary media is great. There are many, divided into various clans, more or less in competition, each in the service of a current of the hard right. They have multiplied over the past fifteen years, with the rise of populist waves and have benefited from considerable financial advantages, coming from the State, during the eight years of government (2015-2023) of the Nationalist Party and Justice (PIS). The specialized magazine Press Esides this windfall at 1.36 billion Zlotys (318 million euros), mainly through public enterprises advertisements, but also direct subsidies.
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Source: Lemonde