Lawfare Archive: Radek Sikorski on the Week's Events in Poland
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🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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From July 7, 2018: It's been a bad week for Polish democracy, with the government removing a bunch of judges from the country's Supreme Court in order to replace them with party loyalists. In response, protestors took to the streets to push back against the deconsolidation of Polish democracy. Radek Sikorski joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss the week's events and the larger degradation of Polish governance of which they are a part. Radek served as foreign minister and defense minister of Poland, as well as speaker of the Polish parliament. He has also been a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and he's currently a senior fellow at the Center of European Studies at Harvard University and distinguished statesman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm Caleb Benjamin, intern at LawFair, an episode from the LawFair Archive for October |
| 0:43.6 | 21st, 2023. This week, Polish citizens voted to oust the incumbent law and justice party. |
| 0:50.1 | While law and justice won the largest share of votes, the far right Confederation Party |
| 0:53.6 | is potential coalition partner, garnered only about 7% of the votes. Three opposition |
| 0:58.6 | parties that had vowed to restore democratic standards led by Donald Tusk's civic coalition |
| 1:02.7 | party, one over 54% of the votes combined, putting them in a position to take power. |
| 1:07.3 | For today's Archive episode, I picked an episode from July 7th, 2018, in which Benjamin |
| 1:12.9 | was sat down with Roddick Sokorski to discuss the removal of several judges from Poland Supreme |
| 1:17.0 | Court, their replacement with several party loyalists, and the larger degradation of Polish |
| 1:21.4 | governments. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm Benjamin Widis, and this is the LawFair podcast July 7th, 2018. It's been a bad week |
| 1:39.1 | for Polish democracy with the government removing a bunch of judges from the country's Supreme |
| 1:45.5 | Court in order to replace them with party loyalists in response protesters took to the streets |
| 1:52.7 | to push back against the deconsolidation of Polish democracy. Joining me to discuss this |
| 1:59.2 | week's events and the larger degradation of Polish governance that they're a part of |
| 2:05.3 | is Roddick Sokorski. Roddick served as Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Poland, |
| 2:12.2 | Speaker of the Polish Parliament, and he ran for president sometime back. He has also been |
| 2:18.3 | a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and he's currently a senior fellow |
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