Progressive win, POL
It looks like
the
democracy coalition has won the election in Poland. However, I
don't want to count this victory before it has hatched.
If it can assume government power, it will have a lot of work to do to
restore democratic institutions.
The EU rules and treaties can be used to eliminate authoritarian
government in a single member state, if only one member state has it;
but when two member states have it, they can
protect each other
and bring the treaty requirements to naught. In recent years, Poland
and Hungary protected each other's authoritarian institutions.
Returning Poland to democracy and human rights could have made an
opportunity to rescue Hungary too, but alas no — a far-right
extremist government just won the election in Slovakia. I suspect
Slovakia and Hungary will now protect each other from human rights.