Poland, which became one of the first major countries in the West to vote in a national conservative government in 2015, faces a make-or-break election on Sunday, with globalist former premier Donald Tusk poised to return to office at the head of a coalition of left-leaning parties.
Tusk, who abandoned his post as Prime Minister of Poland to take up a much better-paid position as President of the Council of Europe shortly before his party Civic Platform was thrown out of office in 2015, is now eyeing a political comeback. He accuses Law and Justice of “systematically planning, in cold blood, to take Poland out of the European Union.”
Despite its skepticism about the aspirations of politicians in countries like Germany to turn the EU into a fully-fledged United States of Europe – and its willingness to refuse to implement EU policies such as compulsory migrant quotas – Law and Justice denies these accusations.
Law and Justice, commonly known as PiS, also accuse Tusk of being a German puppet, – one of its election adverts featuring the German ambassador calling up PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and telling him what to do, with Kaczyński replying those days are over.
PiS has organized a number of referendums to take place on the same day as the election. One of the most pertinent relates to the state retirement age, which Tusk increased to 67 but which PiS reduced to 60 for women and 65 for men – despite resisting the mass migration which is supposed to be necessary to pay for aging Westerners.
Even more pertinent is a referendum on migrant quotas, which the EU is once again trying to force on Poland in response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Tusk’s party agreed to migrant quotas before PiS replaced them and reversed the decision.
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