The Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, is expected to reveal the contents of the third referendum question on Sunday, according to TVP News which reported the update on Saturday night. The ruling Law and Justice party has continued unveiling additional referendum prompts in recent days.
Earlier in the week, PiS began outlining more questions for a nationwide vote.
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– The first referendum question was introduced by PiS chair Jarosław Kaczyński, who stressed that the voters from Poland would define the outcome while international politicians would not influence the result
— The second referendum question focuses on pensions. Beata Szydło commented that Donald Tusk and the Civic Platform have spoken frequently about women and have kept them in the workforce almost to exhaustion
First question
As announced by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński, the first question will be:
Do you support the sale of state-owned enterprises?
Morawiecki was reported by TVP News to plan the announcement of the third referendum question in Pomerania on Sunday evening.
Second question
On Saturday morning, former Prime Minister Beata Szydło announced the second referendum question, which will read:
Are you in favor of raising the retirement age to 60 for women and 65 for men?
Beata Szydło noted on the spot that Tusk and PO often comment on women and have effectively subjected them to similar workloads as men.
The archival statements of Civic Platform leaders were recalled, including former presidential candidate Bronisław Komorowski from a 2010 televised debate who said that raising the age was unnecessary and that people could make choices, and later Prime Minister Donald Tusk from 2012 who stated a retirement age of 67 would be acceptable.
These remarks were summarized as a perceived inconsistency by those presenting the material, with an emphasis that the voice of ordinary Poles remains central.
What did Tusk want in retirement?
As of October 1, 2017, the retirement age stood at 60 for women and 65 for men. The reforms restoring a higher retirement age, which had previously been rolled back by the PO-PSL government, were enacted in 2016.
A spokesperson for PiS, Rafał Bochenek, commented that the plan would see the referendum results submitted to the Sejm and include four questions to be addressed in the following days.
A two-day Sejm session was scheduled for August 16 and 17; the plan was to consider a motion to order a nationwide referendum.
In June, Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński stated that the relocation of migrants within the EU should be decided by a referendum. Morawiecki echoed the intention to hold the referendum alongside autumn parliamentary elections. President Andrzej Duda has scheduled elections for October 15.
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Source: wPolityce