Following a record high turnout in last October's parliamentary election, and a much lower turnout in April's local elections, campaigning for the Europe an Parliament elections, to be held on 9 June, has so far been low key.
"The problem with the ruling coalition is that they do not have enough big personalities. There's only Tusk," Bartosz Wieliński, deputy editor of newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, told RTÉ News. At an economic conference in the southern city of Katowice earlier this week, Mr Tusk urged EU member states to collectively increase defence spending by €100 billion in order to"move the war away from European borders, perhaps forever".
It did so by criticising what the party termed as"LBGT ideology", and promoting a strong socially conservative and Catholic doctrine. This time around, Law and Justice has focused on criticising the EU’s Green Deal and tapping into anti-Brussels opposition from farmer’s associations against the pact, which requires farmers to use more sustainable agricultural methods.
This week, national security concerns ratcheted up a notch in Warsaw and could shape the campaign over the coming weeks. He described Mr Szmydt as a"Belarusian or Russian agent," designated by Law and Justice to dismantle the Polish legal system and"attack independent Polish judges". "There's a real infiltration and real problem with this blindness of Polish secret services, this reluctance to go after Russia, to go after the far-right and investigate this connection," he said.
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