Political scientist Marcin Palade told Breitbart that the LGBT march which took place in Gdansk on Saturday may have motivated many Poles to rather vote for the conservative ruling party.
Lawyers from the conservative Ordo Iuris Institute have since offered free legal assistance to members of the public who witnessed “scandalous” attacks on Catholicism at the controversial parade. The parade was backed by the UK foreign office according to the deputy chief of the British Embassy in Poland.
The PiS campaign was certainly marked by strong rhetoric against so-called gay rights and a refusal to honor Jewish claims for alleged compensation of properties lost during the Holocaust.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki last week vowed that his country would not pay restitution for Jewish properties, saying that such a move would be a “victory for Hitler”.
In its strongest ever result with 46 percent of the vote a gain of six points on its performance at the last EU elections in 2014 – the party finished stormed to victory over rival European Coalition.
The leftists lost 10 points from 49 percent in 2014 to 39 percent at the ballot, according to Polish media. Journalist Wojciech Kość described the results as “actually a disaster [for the] opposition” considering how the “joint effort of five parties” had enjoyed the “support of major media” as well as “four years of code red anti-PiS alert”.
The progressive Spring party won only 6,6 percent for three seats while 6,l percent (3 seats) went to the rightwing Confederation group.