The battle is between the pro-European PC of former European Council President Donald Tusk and the anti-Brussels and anti-immigration PiS. Although the far right may hold the key. In addition, a referendum on immigration will be held.
Poland will hold parliamentary elections this Sunday that will determine its relationship with the European Union after years of tensions between Brussels and Warsaw over judicial and immigration policies, amid waning support for the war in Ukraine, as evidenced by growth in coalition polls . , a potentially crucial player in the event of subsequent government formation negotiations.
On paper, the elections represent yet another confrontation between the two great rivals of Polish national politics. On the one hand there is Law and Justice (Lake), favorite with 37% voting intention, led by the country’s ‘de facto’ leader, former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with a tough message against Brussels and immigration. The opposition Civic Platform stands at seven percentage points, with 30% (PC) of former European Council President Donald Tusk, who returned to the political frontline in 2021 as the great hope of pro-Europeans after years of friction due to a series of decisions championed by PiS to favor the primacy of national law over community law .
One of the most important points of these elections is Poland’s resistance to the adoption of Community law at the level requested by Brussels LGTBI rights and also with the issue of migration.
The war in Ukraine has characterized during the campaign the long confrontation between Kaczynski and Tusk, which has acquired a vicious level of hostility, between mutual accusations of treason. Both have used their common enemy, Russia, to accuse their rival of weakening the national spirit to the benefit of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The. appears in the middle of this panorama Federation led by Slawomir Mentzen, a young 36-year-old politician, self-proclaimed libertarian, who made clear the five pillars of his program in 2019. “No Jews, no abortions, no homosexuals and no taxes,” he declared in comments that he has since watered down, aware that the 9 or 10% voting intention in the polls places him as a major asset in the elections. he simplifies his proposal to just two points: “Less taxes and zero social benefits for Ukrainians.”
To all this panorama we must add the referendum from four questions adopted last summer, the fourth question of which makes clear the Polish government’s position on migration: “Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal migrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism established by the European bureaucracy imposed?
Source: EITB
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