The Warsaw government is showing that it has no restraint in exploiting the fear of uncontrolled immigration, as well as turning the anti-German complex and an anti-European grudge into thrown weapons against the opposition to retain power. Just returned from Brussels, where together with the Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, he tried to veto the European Union's migration pact, the Polish head of government, Mateusz Morawiecki, resorted on Saturday to arguments of unusual brutality to attack the EU and, in Especially against Germany.
“From the east we have the Wagner Group and, from the west, the Weber Group,” Morawiecki said at a rally, referring to Russian paramilitaries and the president of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, whom he called a “shameless German”.
“We are going to fight against the political violence of the Weber Group. That is why I have rejected the ruling on the new directive that intends to impose on us the compulsory relocation of immigrants ”, he affirmed. Beyond being untrue about the migration pact, which does not establish a forced reception of immigrants but mandatory solidarity between countries that are willing to receive immigrants and those that are not, the head of government wanted to point to Germany as the main culprit of a real aggression against Poland.
But by comparing the Russian military mercenary troop, recruited from common criminal prisoners to fight in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, with the liberal right-wing political family of the European Parliament, the Polish prime minister appears to disdain the terms of a acceptable controversy within the EU. And it makes it clear that the increasingly authoritarian Polish government intends to incite public opinion against Germany, which it has long labeled with growing malice as its main enemy, which supposedly intends to turn Poland into its colony or, at least, install in Warsaw a government to their liking.
The obligatory references to the Third Reich came almost by themselves. Citing an interview by Weber to a German newspaper in which the politician stated that the People's Group in the European Parliament "should be the main bulwark against the nationalist government in Warsaw to help Poland return to Europe," Morawiecki said: " This cheeky German has no shame. Just as the chancellor does not when he affirms that in the European migratory policy Poland should lighten the burden on Germany. Should we lighten the burden on Germany? Conscience is the thing that will weigh the least on the Germans, but only when they end up paying reparations for the horrendous crimes they committed [in World War II].”
The leader of the nationalists, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who a few weeks ago rejoined the Executive as its only vice president, has already announced that the Government will call a referendum on the issue of immigration to coincide with the parliamentary elections scheduled for October. By stoking and exploiting the Poles' fear of uncontrolled immigration, the government hopes to gather the votes that it seems to lack today to win the elections and retain power.
Donald Tusk, the main opposition figure, has denounced the hypocrisy of the government. “Why does the government incite people against immigrants and foreigners and at the same time favored the arrival of some 130,000 immigrants last year from countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria, to whom it grants permits work express? ”, he asked on Twitter. "Maybe Kaczynski needs an internal war, to spur a conflict and the fear of the citizens, because that way it is easier to govern and he hopes to win the elections."
According to various polls, the opposition forces today outstrip the right wing of Law and Justice, whose only hope of retaining power would be to ally with the extreme right of the Confederation, now in opposition.
