Poland’s populist, nationalist government is increasingly taking an anti-German, anti-European Union stance in the run-up to the 15 October legislative elections in the hope of mobilising its most loyal followers, analysts say.
Jarosław Kaczyński, head of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, fired the latest shot on Friday (11 August), suggesting that Germany wanted to interfere in the coming election campaign.
He was also revealing one of the questions the PiS wants the people to vote on in a national referendum on election day: “Are you in favour of selling state enterprises?”
Such a sell-off could profit Germany which, he said, wanted to impose on Poland opposition leader Donald Tusk.
And Tusk, leader of the main opposition Civic Platform (PO) party, has long been the government’s bête noire.
Recent opinion polls suggest his party could pose a threat to the ruling PiS in October.
Between 30 and 40% of Poles are mistrustful — even hostile — to Germany, so the point of the referendum was to help the ruling party polarise the election campaign.
Warsaw and Brussels have long been at odds on a whole series of issues, specialist Anna Materska-Sosnowska of Warsaw University pointed out.
“The PiS doesn’t want to openly treat the EU as the enemy,” she said. “But this is obviously what is being done when it attacks Germany, the strongest country in the EU.”
Inb4 dozens of people explaining why they totally deserve ~30,000€ in reparations each for things that happened to their great-grandparents, from people who had literally nothing to do with it except being born in the wrong place, and why it totally does not count that those reparations had already been paid.
Is it really “playing a card”, when it’s your normal policy?
The 3 German’s that think about Poland are probably very upset right now.
they never stopped
If they are so ‘anti-EU’, why are they still in it……are they stupid?
Can hardly call it playing a card, when it’s basically the whole game for them.
It’s almost ~~harvesting~~ election season
So my first instinct was “WTF, do people always have to be so divisive and extra”……… THEN, I remembered I have the psychotic Cheeto and Co. over here and the cult following.
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Poland’s populist, nationalist government is increasingly taking an anti-German, anti-European Union stance in the run-up to the 15 October legislative elections in the hope of mobilising its most loyal followers, analysts say.
Jarosław Kaczyński, head of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, fired the latest shot on Friday (11 August), suggesting that Germany wanted to interfere in the coming election campaign.
He was also revealing one of the questions the PiS wants the people to vote on in a national referendum on election day: “Are you in favour of selling state enterprises?”
Such a sell-off could profit Germany which, he said, wanted to impose on Poland opposition leader Donald Tusk.
And Tusk, leader of the main opposition Civic Platform (PO) party, has long been the government’s bête noire.
Recent opinion polls suggest his party could pose a threat to the ruling PiS in October.
Between 30 and 40% of Poles are mistrustful — even hostile — to Germany, so the point of the referendum was to help the ruling party polarise the election campaign.
Warsaw and Brussels have long been at odds on a whole series of issues, specialist Anna Materska-Sosnowska of Warsaw University pointed out.
“The PiS doesn’t want to openly treat the EU as the enemy,” she said. “But this is obviously what is being done when it attacks Germany, the strongest country in the EU.”
Inb4 dozens of people explaining why they totally deserve ~30,000€ in reparations each for things that happened to their great-grandparents, from people who had literally nothing to do with it except being born in the wrong place, and why it totally does not count that those reparations had already been paid.
Is it really “playing a card”, when it’s your normal policy?
The 3 German’s that think about Poland are probably very upset right now.
they never stopped
If they are so ‘anti-EU’, why are they still in it……are they stupid?
Can hardly call it playing a card, when it’s basically the whole game for them.
It’s almost ~~harvesting~~ election season
So my first instinct was “WTF, do people always have to be so divisive and extra”……… THEN, I remembered I have the psychotic Cheeto and Co. over here and the cult following.