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  • Source: Agencies
  • 11 Aug 2023 21:56
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A recent poll reveals that between 30 and 40 percent of the Polish population don't trust Germany and are even hostile toward it.

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    Far-right protesters in Poland hold an anti-EU banner during a demonstration in Warsaw on July 25, 2015 (AFP)

As legislative elections near, the right-wing ruling party of Poland is adopting more anti-German and anti-EU stances in a bid to draw their most dedicated supporters, analysts said.

At the forefront of this campaign is Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, who recently insinuated that Germany intended to meddle in the October 15 elections.

Kaczynski unveiled one of the questions his party wants its supporters to vote on in a national referendum on election day: "Are you in favor of selling state enterprises?"

Read more: Poland conducts military drills as anti-German sentiment grows: SVR

The nationalist leader said the privatization of public institutions would profit Germany, accusing Berlin of wanting to impose Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform (PO) party - who has been the ruling party's head rival.

Tusk is everything the government stands against: He is Poland's former Prime Minister and president of the European Council.

According to recent surveys, PO might be a real threat to Kaczynski's party in the October elections with support ranging between 26-32 percent while PiS holds around 33 percent.

"The anti-German arguments benefit the PiS," political analyst Marcin Zaborowski of Lazarski University in Warsaw told AFP. 

"They mobilize its most faithful electorate and encourage them to turn up at the polls."

Zaborowski said between 30 and 40 percent of Polish citizens do not trust Germany, even going as far as being hostile toward it. In that context, PiS aims through the referendum to polarize the election campaign, he added.

Read more: Germany rejects Polish demands for WWII compensation: Polish FM

Disguised anti-Europeanism

Anna Materska-Sosnowska, a political expert at Warsaw University, said the ruling party disguises its anti-EU position by adopting an anti-German one, noting that Warsaw and Brussels have almost always been at odds over a list of issues.

"The PiS doesn't want to openly treat the EU as the enemy," she said. "But this is obviously what is being done when it attacks Germany, the strongest country in the EU."

Last week, in an interview for the German broadcaster ZDF, the German head of the European Parliament's center-right European People's Party (EPP) accused PiS of violating the principles of the rule of law and censoring free media. His accusations also included France's far-right National Rally and German AfD.

Read more: Poland Ambassador to Berlin: Germany must pay for Nazi era damages

Such parties "are our enemies," Manfred Weber said in the interview.

His comments were directly met with an angry response fo Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

"He called us enemies," said Morawiecki in outrage. "That's enough," he continued before challenging Weber to a public debate.

President Andrzej Duda joined positions of PM Kaczynski and denounced "the attempts of foreign politicians to influence the election process in Poland."

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