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[caption id="attachment_52816" align="aligncenter" width="960"] In December 2016, Ryszard Petru, center,
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When Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość,
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[caption id="attachment_61426" align="aligncenter" width="960"] People in Warsaw on July 24
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Joshua Tucker: Continuing our series of TMC Election Reports, we