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Populism Seen behind Death Penalty Talk (Zoltán Dujisin, 10/03/07, IPS)

Warsaw's head-on clash with the European Union by vetoing a symbolic day against the death penalty is being interpreted here as a pre-electoral attempt to win domestic support for the so-called "Fourth Polish Republic" - a vision of a nation with a far wider sense of morality and democracy than existed under any past government.

It's not so much a matter of populism but of the popular vote. If you held one in Europe there would be a death penalty and there wouldn't be an EU.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 3, 2007 11:18 AM