Poland’s inspiring vote for traditional values
‘WE won. I will bring people together, I will be constructive, I will be a president for all Poles. I will be your president.’
Just a few hours after making this statement, in response to marginally positive exit poll results, the defeated Polish presidential candidate and Brussels favourite Rafał Trzaskowski tweeted ‘I congratulate Karol Nawrocki on his win in the presidential election’. Embarrassing.
Embarrassing not just for this Mayor of Warsaw who, in a live televised debate in April, quickly hid a rainbow flag, presented to him by rival Nawrocki to emphasise Trzaskowski’s championing of LGBT rights over those of socially conservative Poles. Embarrassing also for the current Polish Prime Minister Donald ‘special place in hell for Brexiteers’ Tusk, who has, since 2023, led a ragtag bunch of progressives down the primrose path to political defeat, having ridden to power on a promise of giving left-wing women all the abortions they could handle.
The whole piece is worth reading because Ings may be right and Poland is once again shaping up to be the naughty boy of Europe.
By proxy, of course, this means embarrassment for Tusk’s handler back at European Union headquarters, Ursula von der Leyen. VDL, while studiously declining to back political candidates publicly, was so delighted to see Tusk elected in 2023 that she immediately released 5billion euros, with tens of billions to follow, as Poland promised to restore the ‘rule of law’ after eight years of conservative rule. Of course, what the EU means by ‘rule of law’ is the supremacy of EU law over national law and allowing sexual and/or ethnic minorities to dictate social and legal norms. By seeking to wrest back judicial and political control over Polish affairs from its slavish EU-friendly judiciary and civil service, the pre-Tusk government was denied the scrapings from the bottom of the EU money pit by a resentful von der Leyen.
Now Poland is once again shaping up to be the naughty boy of Europe with the politically untested and inexperienced Nawrocki rising to power, scraping in Brexit-style with a 51 per cent share of the vote. Other than his widely shared hostility to talk of gay marriage, other reasons for his self-exclusion from polite Brussels salons will be his fervent belief in protecting unborn life, and his increasing scepticism towards the million-strong ‘refugees’ from war-torn Ukraine.
Now Poland is once again shaping up to be the naughty boy of Europe with the politically untested and inexperienced Nawrocki rising to power, scraping in Brexit-style with a 51 per cent share of the vote. Other than his widely shared hostility to talk of gay marriage, other reasons for his self-exclusion from polite Brussels salons will be his fervent belief in protecting unborn life, and his increasing scepticism towards the million-strong ‘refugees’ from war-torn Ukraine.
3 comments:
Also Serbia very hated by the EU and the UK now, painted as far right fascists and racists by the UK and EU, then I realised they are very much pro-Israel and it made sense to me.
It's good to have EU member states at loggerheads with Brussels over social issues. Evidence that access to markets is the motivating factor here, rather than a desire to junk one's culture and sense of identity. And the rows themselves must take up a lot of time and energy, which is excellent.
Anon - yes, being pro-Israel is a major clue to the name calling.
Sam - I agree, the more time lost to internal rows the better.
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