WARSAW: Migration has inflamed Poland's political debate ahead of the autumn general election, as the nationalist government sees the issue as its electoral trump card. The governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has again taken up a 'cause that paid dividends at the general election in 2015, when it exploit
WARSAW: Migration has inflamed Poland's political debate ahead of the autumn general election, as the nationalist government sees the issue as its electoral trump card.
"Put these two images together: that of Paris suburbs today, with big riots, the looting of stores, broken windows, cars on fire", against"calm Polish towns", he said. Mocek said the party's new programme of social benefits had failed to materially improve its popularity so the leadership was"returning to the basest instincts of society".
According to Maciej Witucki, president of the employers' organisation Lewiatan,"our economy and our companies won't manage without foreign workers". The government denied these figures but abandoned the project which, according to PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was an"administrative error".Morawiecki called on the opposition to back the government's position but the main centrist and leftist parties boycotted his proposed talks.
Yet, at the same time, Poland has built walls along its borders with Belarus and Russia in response to a migrant influx into the EU.
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