PROBLEMS OF POPULISM RZECZPOSPOLITA

The paper aims to analyse texts dealing with the problem of populism published in the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita after 1989. Populism is one of the most difficult phenomena to understand for journalists and political scientists. This phenomenon was in parallel to the social and political transformation in Poland. The term populism appears in many contexts in the newspaper. It is used to describe and evaluate events in Poland, Europe, USA and Latin America. In many texts published in Rzeczpospolita, the term populism most often appears in the context of electoral contests, accusations levelled by political opponents and describing the parliamentary elections. There are texts written by journalists, publicists and scholars. They express their belief that populism in Poland is characteristic of both the leftist and rightist parties.