A few words on the political situation here. The coalition is broken and PiS is looking around for MPs it can persuade to jump ship and join them. How to persuade them? Well, with the promise of jobs of course – a secretary of stateship for you, for instance. A PiS official was secretly filmed making such an offer to a Renata Beger of Samoobrona, the party that left/was pushed out of the coalition. He also made vague (or concrete, depending on whether you have the patience to read the transcripts) promises to use (tax-payers’? PiS? – read the transcript if you can stand it) money to pay the fines that Samoobrona deputies have to pay to the party leader if they leave. Yes, you read that correctly: Samoobrona introduced something more fearful than the mere party whip to keep discipline, though there is some doubt over the legality of the arrangement.

So in short, nothing has changed:

Well-known dictator posing in port with young and old in traditional garb.

Well-known democrat posing in port with young and old in traditional garb.