SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE PIS PARTY IN POLAND AND THE FIDESZ PARTY IN HUNGARY

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This study investigates similarities between two right-wing populist parties: The Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party - PiS) party in Poland and the Hungarian Civic Alliance (Magyar Polgári Szövetség - FIDESZ) party in Hungary by examining speeches of Polish President Andrzej Duda, former-Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Furthermore, the study is carried out on the actions of these parties during their governments. It aims to present the perspectives that PiS and FIDESZ have on identity and religion, democracy, and EU principles and looks at the two parties’ strategies for gaining more power. Based on the studies, four main similar characteristics between these two parties are identified. (1) The PiS party and the FIDESZ party and their politicians regularly emphasize “Christianity” to emphasize their identity. (2) These two parties employ every available strategy to protect and increase their positions in the government. (3) They undermine liberal democracy as an authoritarian trend driven by majority rule. (4) The PiS party and the FIDESZ party have refused to follow the core values upon which the EU was founded. Furthermore, these parties use anti-EU rhetoric to increase their power by claiming that they are safeguarding national sovereignty. They believe in the concept of a “Europe of nations.”