PiS and LPR electoral machines appear to borrow from each other

The first stage of the campaign appears to consist of mutual accusations. LPR demanded that the Kaczyński brothers answer for the results of the Round Table talks, while Law and Justice accused the LPR of pro-Russian attitudes. Now the parties are presenting their ideology. Since the two parties are trying to win the same electorate their television spots are almost indistinguishable. Law and Justice has expressed its attitude to gays with a slogan, "Instead of provocative gay parades we want the state's aid to go to Polish families." Similar statements appear in the LPR's TV advertisements, where a young man praises his party as the one which, "Has the courage to say that two gays is not the same as a man and wife." The LPR also took over the main plank of PiS' program, namely an uncompromising fight against corruption. Moreover, the advertisements are also similar in form, same places, colors and similar music appear in the spots of both LPR and PiS. "PiS steals our slogans, but it will not take our electorate from us," declared LPR's Sylwester Chruszcz, while Jacek Kurski from PiS stated that "the League blows our sail." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) E.B.