Marta Górczynska is an asylum lawyer living in Warsaw. She works for the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, with which Pro Asyl is linked through the European Council for Refugees (ECRE).
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
