On the eve of the legislative elections of October 15, which promise to be close for the ultraconservative Law and Justice (PiS), in power since 2015 in Poland, a political party even more to the right could well endanger a new majority for the government outgoing. “We are going to these elections to overturn the table where all the political leaders are sitting from other parties (…). We are the only ones to present a program advantageous for the Poles and not for the Eurocrats”said Krzysztof Bosak, co-leader of the far-right Konfederacja formation, on stage during his party’s congress in Katowice, southern Poland, Saturday September 23.
This deputy who looks like the top of the class protests: “We don’t want any European treaty that would take even one thing from Warsaw and transfer it to Brussels. » The crowd gives him a standing ovation. He keeps on : “We don’t want “multi-culti”, we want Poland to be Poland. » The participants gathered in a sports arena that looks like a flying saucer are jubilant, they applaud the gathering that looks like a sound and light show, with pyrotechnic fireworks.
Most of the stands are filled with young men between 16 and 40 years old, in suits and shirts, but without ties. Poles resolutely attracted by the economic program of this heterogeneous anti-system movement ranging from libertarians to nationalists through monarchists. Konfederacja thus promises to simplify and lower taxes, particularly for entrepreneurs, and plans to open the public health system to competition.
Increased weight in the Diet
This electoral alliance wishes to limit the benefit system in Poland and is opposed to the increase in family allowances from 500 zlotys (109 euros) to 800 zlotys – a PiS campaign argument. Konfederacja is displayed “Propolis”, defender of the interests of the Poles in the face of a Ukraine perceived as ungrateful, flooding the Polish agricultural market and ruining its farmers. Its leaders, opposed to the legalization of abortion, accuse the European Union (EU) of moving away from the original project to drift towards federalism and the protection of LGBTQ+ rights. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they attacked vaccines and called lockdowns “sanitary segregation”.
“The ban on thermal cars by the EU by 2035 is not good for Poland”, regrets Kamil Gabriel Janic, 21, who is running on the Konfederacja list in Jelenia Gora, in the southwest of the country. “Warsaw has fewer and fewer skills”, alarms the young man, who does not want to leave the EU. In Katowice, some are candidates for elections, others are activists, others are simply curious people who have come to make sure they make the right choice on October 15, when Poland will renew its Parliament and Senate. All refuse the qualifier of” far right “.
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