The “Non-Campaign” and the “Non-Elections” on the Internet in the 2020 “Spring” Presidential Election Campaign in Poland

COVID-19 and erosion of democracy

“…However, the most interesting group of countries are those democracies that have been weakened for the last several years, such as Hungary and Poland. These states have registered numerous violations of the democratic rules in force, e.g., in Poland this was strongly linked to the presidential elections, where the ruling party pursued its opportunistic goals ( Piontek and Ossowski, 2021 ; Musiał-Karg and Kapsa, 2020 ).…”