The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ) explained that the referendum “was not intended to find out the opinion of the people.” As shown, “this was used exclusively for PiS’s election campaignThat’s Reinhard Veser’s assessment of the ruling party’s initiatives in a commentary entitled “The PiS State”.
He considered the selection of questions and the way they were prepared to be tendentious and manipulated by the authorities. “Who would support the sale of state-owned companies? Even strong supporters of privatization would not want it,” explained “FAZ” quoted by “Deutsche Welle”.
According to Veser, this question was at the heart of the Polish referendum. Why? “Because this reveals what PiS is all about: it wants to turn Poland into a party state. On an unprecedented scale, (PiS) has filled positions in state-owned companies with party supporters and used them for political purposes, for example buying media. To this end, “the government also placed the judiciary under political control,” he wrote.
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The “FAZ” columnist also recalled efforts to organize the so-called blanket election during the pandemic. “PiS has shown that it is also ready to manipulate elections,” he argued. “For now, he cannot do that because the opposition, civil society and the media are too strong. But success in October will bring him closer to that goal“- he added.
Pseudo-referendum
The left-wing group “Die Tageszeitung” described the referendum in a similar vein. He called the vote “quasi-referendum“. Why? According to the daily’s Polish correspondent, no serious debate is taking place regarding the issues raised in the questions, and Polish society and the parties running in the elections are not planning to privatize the company. On the contrary, the question about migrants is intended to incite society against the European Union.
“This question is particularly dangerous because Poland is not covered by the solidarity clause of the EU asylum compromise. Poland does not have to take in asylum seekers from either Greece or Italy, nor does it have to pay EUR 22,000 for each refugee it does not accept. “Because of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Poland received millions of Ukrainian refugees on February 24 2022. Currently, around one million refugees from neighboring countries live in Poland,” he explained.
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