May coup. Pride and perversion?

"If you look for the modern echo of the May coup, it is most visible in national populist movements. In their attacks on the parliamentary system, steeped in corruption and incompetence of the elite, or the powerlessness of a state paralyzed by a party", writes Pierre Buhler, erstwhile French Ambassador to Poland and author of books on the past of Poland, in our cycle on the centenary of the 1926 May bombing.