The strongest EU countries want to push through the centralization project, giving Brussels powers that it did not have before. This is the real stakes in the battle for the Polish parliament: either the forces willing to subordinate Poland to Brussels, or those who want Poland to become a partner in the EU, will win the majority, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
In his podcast published on social media on Sunday, the Prime Minister said that the main questions facing our homeland are: “do we want an ambitious Poland, a country that hides behind the backs of the strong or a subordinate country” and “ we want to set or follow regional and European trends.” Morawiecki added that “PiS chooses courage and ambition, and part of the opposition chooses submission and subjugation.”
According to him, the Poles want to continue to build on the foundations laid by PiS. They do not want to dismantle what has already been done, but they want to take a step forward.” “Today we run the risk that, instead of asking ourselves how Poland should develop in 2024, we get involved in disputes that take us back to 2015,” he said.
Morawiecki recommended the book “The People vs. Democracy.” Why our freedom is in danger and how we can save it” by Yascha Mounk. He explained that “this author tries to honestly analyze the positions of all parties in the political dispute that is taking place in a similar framework throughout the democratic world.” He added that Mounk shows that “the main axis of the clash today is the struggle between supporters of illiberal democracy, which he believes includes PiS, and undemocratic liberalism.”
The Prime Minister pointed out that “for Mounk, the best example of undemocratic liberalism is the European Commission.” “Mounk says directly that it is the most powerful, undemocratic external agency in the world: it decides the lives of tens of millions of people, and is accountable to none of them,” he explained.
Mounk is particularly critical of the populists, in which he takes PiS into account rather exaggeratedly, but he points out that the problem is not that we have bad populists and good liberals.
– reported the Prime Minister.
As he explained, Mounk said, “the problem is more complex: Populists are hyperdemocratic and sometimes focus too much on carrying out the will of their voters, and care too little about minorities and people with different worldviews.”
I take this argument to heart. The results of the last elections have shown that PiS must take a closer look at the needs and expectations of different, broad electoral groups.
– he assessed.
An even bigger problem for democracy is the fact that liberals don’t care at all what the voters want and put power in the hands of so-called independent institutions. At the national level, we have a taste of this undemocratic turn
– he pointed out.
Morawiecki pointed out that the Civic Coalition, PSL, Polska 2050 and New Left signed a coalition agreement “in which, instead of the hundred specifics announced by KO during the campaign, there were 24 generalities.”
If election promises are not taken seriously, neither democracy nor voters are taken seriously
– he assessed.
‘Everything outside democratic control’
However, according to the Prime Minister, “these hundred details” may soon no longer be important, as the strongest countries in the European Union want to implement a centralization project that will transfer powers to Brussels that it has not had before. “
Instead of 100 specifics, we will have 1,000 guidelines. Everything beyond democratic control. All this will ensure that the strong become even stronger and that the weak will have to say goodbye to their development ambitions.
– said Morawiecki. In his opinion, “this is the real stakes of the battle for the Polish parliament.”
Either the majority will be won by forces willing to subordinate Poland to Brussels, or the majority will be won by forces that want Poland to become a partner in the EU, not a supplicant.
– he said.
The Prime Minister compared the EU’s project of centralization to the project of reforming the Champions League, “that is, to transform it into a closed competition in which only the richest will compete.” He explained that “the idea of the Champions League on financial steroids has failed for now, but it keeps coming back, just like the plans to centralize the EU.”
EU centralization was not a problem in these elections, but the Polish parliament must read the will of Poles in this area and act in accordance with what our compatriots expect, not what senior officials in Brussels expect.
– added.
Morawiecki said he is aware that the position he is putting forward “ends up with a series of screaming articles: PiS wants to take Poland out of the EU again, Morawiecki threatens the EU and Germany.”
Don’t fall for this. We just want to play in the European Champions League and not just support German teams
– he said.
I am convinced that defending Polish sovereignty in this case also means defending the European Union itself
– he emphasized.
The Prime Minister recalled that “President Andrzej Duda spoke in the Sejm about the need to build a coalition of Polish issues.” According to Morawiecki, “the coalition of Polish affairs is also a coalition of European values that were reflected in the treaties that formed the EU.”
I have no doubt that it is worth undertaking the mission to build such a coalition in the Sejm, because Poles want such a coalition and because Poland is always worth fighting for and fighting for until the last moment, until the last drop of blood.
– he assessed.
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Source: wPolityce