The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, decided today that October 15 will be regular parliamentary elections.
Together with them, there will probably be a referendum planned by the government of the right-wing Pravo i Pravda party on accepting refugees, which it opposes, and on the obligation of solidarity in the EU with the affected countries regarding the reform of the right to asylum.
The pre-election campaign starts five days after the decision of the head of state to call the election is published by the official newspaper, but the increasingly harsh unofficial campaign has been going on for months. Vice Prime Minister Jaroslav Kaczynski's Law and Justice at party picnics every weekend, and government officials constantly, try to convince Poles that these will be the most important elections since the fall of the communists in 1989 and that Law and Justice is the only guarantee of Poland's survival.
A few days ago, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke to journalists together with Lithuanian President Gitanas Naused, and the topic was supposed to be the tension on the border with Belarus, but he accused the leader of the opposition, Donald Tusk, of allegedly destroying the army and endangering the security of Poles if he returns to Poland in the fall. power.
At the beginning of the week, in an interview with the pro-government weekly of the liberal opposition "Cut the Leader", Jaroslav Kačinjski said that "today we have to defend our security, sovereignty. The stake is higher than ever, we can lose everything we have gained with so much effort".
Kaczynski said that the former prime minister "Tusk was chosen by his sponsors to do dirty work because he is a proven traitor and will sell Poland again. Today Tusk is an ordinary puppet of the Brussels bureaucracy and German imperial plans".
The former Polish Prime Minister and former President of the European Council, Tusk, managed to organize the largest demonstration since 1989 in early June, when half a million Poles came out to protest against the Polish conservative government and the reforms that are slowly turning Poland into the Hungary of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
According to voter mood polls, Pravo i Pravda has the most support, about 33 percent, the opposition Civic Coalition about 29 percent, in third place is the only possible partner for the ruling conservatives, the extremist radical nationalist Confederation with 13 percent of the vote, while the remaining two parties of the democratic opposition, the Third put and the Left each have nine percent of the vote.
Analysts expect that the votes of farmers and others from villages that the government is losing due to problems with the import of Ukrainian grain and agricultural products will be decisive in the fall, and the democratic opposition was joined by the association Agrounija, which organizes protests and blockades of farmers.
Jaroslav Kaczynski and his party threatened during the campaign both good relations and aid to Ukraine when Kaczynski openly said that he would not sacrifice Polish farmers to help a neighbor who has been defending himself in a war with Russia for more than a year to export grain.
Pravo i Pravda is trying to woo voters of the radical nationalist Confederation by accusing Ukraine of not showing enough gratitude for Poland's help in fending off Russian attacks and demanding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky apologize for the World War II massacre in Volyn.
In that massacre and ethnic cleansing 80 years ago, the Insurgent Ukrainian Army, with the help of part of the Ukrainian peasants, took advantage of Sunday morning on July 11, 1943, when the Poles were in churches for mass, and coordinated an attack on 150 villages and killed, and somewhere and burned Polish, Czech and Jewish neighbors alive.
Of the approximately 100.000 victims of the Volyn massacre, of which approximately 60.000 were in the Volyn area itself, only approximately 3.000 were found and buried, while the rest were mostly in unmarked graves in forests and in mass graves.
In the subsequent retaliatory actions of the Polish resistance movement, the Land Army, historians estimate that around 20.000 Ukrainian civilians died.
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