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The regime’s use of the Constitution is highly selective, and coloured by its general distaste for the liberal checks and balances the Constitution enshrines. It is not that the Constitution carries no weight; rather, it could be easily trumped by whatever was considered an important regime goal.

"No such mutual expectations, which are a key to democratic governance, exist in Poland now. Both sides deny legitimacy to each other: the opposition is seen by PiS as treacherous and non-patriotic and hence undeserving of ever returning to power, while PiS is viewed by its opponents as having transgressed the minimal conditions of democratic legitimacy"