Opinions on legitimacy of initiating monitoring procedures for rule of law in Poland by the European Commission are divided – in fact, as many people claim the decision was justified as think it was unjustified. The motives of the EC’s actions are perceived as ambiguous, however, a belief that the EC’s decision was driven by a dislike towards Law and Justice (PiS) and was a result of a non-sufficient knowledge about the situation in Poland, is more common than a view that it was merely a result of a concern about law-and-order in Poland.

More on that issue can be found in the CBOS report in Polish.