Since the fall of Communism, former Soviet satellites like Hungary and Poland have shown that countries burdened by a statist past can flourish as capitalist democracies. Today many in the West worry that Budapest and Warsaw are turning authoritarian again, but elections Sunday show democracy is still alive in both. Poland’s conservative ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) won a little under 44% of the vote in Sunday’s high-turnout parliamentary elections. That’s a solid but still disappointing result for PiS. The party improved...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 14, 2019 17:03 UTC