The atmosphere in Warsaw last autumn was one of euphoria following the victory of the liberal coalition parties on October 15. Hundreds of thousands of young people, like Michal Grzebowski, a Sociology and Political Science student, voted to evict Law and Justice (PiS) after eight years of ultra-conservative drift. Tusk’s center-right Civic Coalition (KO) arrived with 100 promises for the first 100 days of Government. Meanwhile, Third Way, formed by the conservative agrarian party PSL and the Christian Democrat Polska 2050, led by a former television presenter with presidential aspirations, Szymon Holownia, promised another way of doing politics.
The 2023 legislative elections have reignited divisions between the minority partners of the coalition around the issue that was key to boosting the young and female vote in October: the legalization of abortion. While KO and Nowa Lewica propose legalizing the voluntary interruption of abortion in all cases until the 12th week, Third Way defends only returning to the situation prior to the Constitutional ruling.
Third Way believes that this issue has not been decisive in
