Authorities have done a lot in recent years to make young people think about emigrating and not wanting to start families, PO leader Donald Tusk said in Bialystok on Friday. He pointed out that the Podlaskie is particularly affected by the negative statistics of births and deaths.
On Friday, the Civic Coalition club gathered as part of the #Here is the Future campaign in Bialystok. PO leader Donald Tusk spoke at the club meeting.
In his speech, he pointed out that the Podlaskie Voivodeship is mainly influenced by the statistics of births and deaths.
Here we need to express our opinion on what a responsible government should do to make young people believe in their future
Tusk said.
As he noted, according to some predictions, in 70 years there will be about 10 million fewer Polish citizens than there are today.
According to Tusk, the national government has done a lot in recent years to encourage young people to emigrate. Meanwhile, he added, anyone running for power must answer the question of what the Polish state can do to make young people want to start families.
The head of the PO noted that half of the municipalities in Poland do not have a nursery. Meanwhile, as he said, every municipality should have a crèche. According to the head of the PO, it is not surprising that young Polish women are worried about their future, since the state has turned its back on them.
Criticism of border policy
According to Tusk, the problem is also communication exclusion, which took on a particularly sombre dimension in Podlaskie Voivodeship after the closure of the borders with Belarus.
As he added, no one doubts that Poland should pursue a tough and firm policy towards Alexander Lukashenko and his regime. However, according to the head of the PO, the policy of closing the borders is chaotic and inconsistent. He emphasized that in Podlaskie Voivodeship, border crossings with Belarus are closed, preventing family contacts or condemning many companies to death, while in Lubelskie Voivodeship, for example, these border crossings are open, just like in Lithuania.
Why is it that the Polish government could not agree on an effective closure of the border?
asked the PO leader.
In his view, in preparing for the closure of the borders, it is necessary to prepare aid for those who will lose it.
According to Tusk, there are many reasons to believe that Podlaskie Voivodeship is “the best place on earth”. He argued that it was a place where different ethnic communities had learned to live together over the years.
Unfortunately, as he added, the PiS mayor of Sokółka objected on Thursday in connection with the visit of KO parliamentarians to the fact that someone who thinks differently from him would come to Sokółka.
There is no better place than Podlaskie Voivodeship, where we, the people of the Civic Coalition, are obliged to repeat the words: Poland is a place of equal rights and equal opportunities for all citizens
Tusk emphasizes.
According to him, the condition for the reconstruction of the community is “a fundamental change that awaits us in the autumn”.
That is why we must win these elections
– said the head of the PO.
As you can see, Donald Tusk has an extremely short memory and has already forgotten about the huge emigration of young Poles during his reign.
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Source: wPolityce