“The Future is Poland”: ruling party launches election campaign of thousands of meetings
Poland’s ruling party has inaugurated a campaign of “thousands” of meetings around the country as it launches a bid to win an unprecedented third term in office at this autumn’s elections under the new slogan “The Future is Poland” (Przyszłość to Polska).
“Poland must be stronger and safer. We must be a country where families live better than in the West. Poland is the future!” declared Jarosław Kaczyński, the Law and Justice (PiS) chairman, at a speech in the party’s headquarters to launch the campaign.
Flanked by the party’s leading figures, including current Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his predecessor Beata Szydło, Kaczyński said that PiS would use the meetings to shape an election programme together with the Polish people.
“They are the best experts,” he explained. “Poles provide us with knowledge about the needs of the nation and we must be guided by their views.”
One commentator, Patryk Michalski, noted that a new campaign video unveiled today features Szydło – who spearheaded PiS’s return to power in 2015 – more times than Morawiecki, who has periodically faced rumours over his position amid reported plots against him within PiS.
“Our years in power have shown that a program can be implemented and Poland can be changed,” said Kaczyński. “After 2015, the socio-economic system changed a lot. The mechanism of exploiting a large part of society by a small, privileged part of society has been radically limited.” Read More…