(PO was trailing PiS in polls in the last year of the Tusk government).Ms Kopacz will lead her party into local elections in November before the national elections next year.
To prosper, they add, Quebec must counter its declining birth rate by attracting more immigrants; but because of the province's language restrictions, only 9% of Quebec's population is foreign-born, compared with a national share of around 17%.The separatists will answer "tant pis".
That view is contested by Michal Kami´nski, the leading PiS candidate in Warsaw who is a former spin doctor and campaign manager for Lech Kaczy´nski, the Polish president.
Many people think it's time for a change, but they're not going for PiS, they're going for people making a noise".
Cameron went to the city's Palladium cinema to stand alongside Jaroslaw Kaczy´nski, the PiS leader, and Mirek Topolánek, leader of the Civic Democratic party (ODS) in the Czech Republic, to celebrate the foundation of a new league of Eurosceptics to be established in the European parliament after elections for the assembly this weekend.
In February the two men are said to have cut a deal, with Rydzyk tacitly supporting PiS in the election in return for several Radio Maryja candidates, including Krupa, being given European parliament seats.
The PiS party could turn out to be a fair‑weather friend only.
The youthful PiS candidate, Andrzej Duda, was well behind on 27%.
"If you think that David Cameron has an alliance with PiS, you could really say that Cameron has an alliance with Father Rydzyk," said Olgierd Annusewicz, a Warsaw University political scientist.
"It's a neo-liberal party," she says of the ruling Civic Platform (PO), adding that the nationalistic and ultra-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), not a natural favourite of the artistic community, has done more to promote culture than the pro-European PO.
