Funny, two years ago everyone here was calling them a left-wing party.
>reduces citizen rights, violates constitution
They haven't done anything that the previous party didn't, but since the previous party lost this election the very same people who did it for the previous 8 years suddenly act like they have the moral high ground.
>oppresses minorities
Not wanting uncontrolled immigration is not "oppressing minorities".
>removes the separation of the state and church
This has never been as severe as people like to claim, even back in 2006.
So you don't want what your country benefited dramatically from in the last 15 years, when Polish people moved to UK to work, sending home additional capital and reducing demographic pressure. I apologize if this sounds inflammatory, it's not meant to but: it is, objectively, a very hypocritical position.
And I find it really amusing that you talk about "united Europe" in the context of non-European immigrants. It is not okay for one country to cause a huge wave of immigration and then basically going "we can't take these people in so you have to and do it unconditionally" - which only encourages even more immigration.
Can't argue with that, but this doesn't mean EU has to take these people in, neither it gives them the right to enter the EU. Several dozen years ago these people would get their boats sunk.
I really recommend watching "With Open Gates" on Youtube and listening to what the immigrants have to say. If the picture of immigrants in the video is the reality, then the government made a very good decision by not taking these people in.
A separate isssue is just a feasibility of Poland taking in immigrants. Before the most recent mass wave of refugees and migrants started, Poland had voluntarily taken some refugees from Syria. Since then, every last one of them left - mostly for rich Western European countries. How does the EU intend to prevent the refugees and migrants from leaving Poland?
These are just big fat lies that are being spread by the politicians that lost last elections. None of this is actualy happening in Poland.
Minorities are just fine, no action has been taken against any of them, citizen rights are in fact better than in most EU countries (no "political correctness") and the separation of church and state is ensured by the fact that 90% of Polish citizens don't treat their religion seriously anyway.
The one thing that makes some sense is accusation of constitution violation, but this has more to do with the fact that Polish constitution is poorly written than with any actions of PiS.
And, as a side note, PiS (ruling party in Poland) is of left-wing, socialist affiliation:)
Law and Justice, abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing national-conservative political party in Poland.
Zbigniew Ziobro, the Minister of Justice, also serves as the Attorney General and under the new law he can interfere with the work of District Attorneys (he can essentially stop any prosecutorial case if he wishes to do so). This is an enormous threat to citizen's rights.
The new government has already made several decisions which help the Catholic Church. The most important one concerns the sale of the farmland, which will benefit the church financially.
On top of that there's the increase in taxation and a massive spending increase on welfare, but I suppose that's just run-of-the-mill fiscal irresponsibility.
Can you give example of these (except the "violates constitution", which in itself is nothing new, consitution was also violated by previous governments)? Which minorities are opressed? Which citizen rights are reduced? How the separation of state and church is removed? I live in Poland and am seriously confused by your post.