Posted on 10/29/2015 7:24:26 AM PDT by Trumpinator
Law and Justice party’s aggressive nationalism and strict Catholicism could reap dividends in crucial elections
The gigantic green-and-yellow tractor should be the pride and joy of Janusz Wnorowski’s humble farmyard. But the 57-year-old milk farmer associates the John Deere with the debt and bureaucracy that have visited him since Poland joined the European Union.
“Whom I vote for is a religious decision, not a political one,’’ he says, suggesting he will choose the ultra-conservative Law and Justice party of President Andrzej Duda. Tacitly endorsed by the powerful Roman Catholic Church, Law and Justice is seen in this village as a tool for Jesus Christ to give John Deere – and thus the EU – a good hiding.
Law and Justice may not win Sunday’s parliamentary and senate elections outright. But surveys suggest its rise will consolidate Poland’s shift to the right. It is expected to finish first, at least 10% ahead of the governing centrist Civic Platform. Law and Justice flirts with racism, homophobia and antisemitism. But in Kulesze Ko�›cielne, a village about 200km northeast of Warsaw, it is all about milk.
“Since we joined the EU in 2004, our government has not fought for Poland,’’ says Wnorowski, who has 95 cows. “All this,’’ he says, pointing to the John Deere and a range of alterations imposed by EU rules, “is unnecessary on our small farms.’’ One outbuilding carries an EU plaque, showing that it was built with a grant.
“We have received money, but we have also had to take out loans. Now people in Brussels are deciding that grain farmers should be better compensated for last summer’s drought than beef and milk farmers. It is nonsensical. Poland did not decide to impose sanctions on Russia, yet we have been the first to suffer the consequences of them.’’
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Nothing to do with Russia. The EU’s rule apply across all sectors of Polish life and hurt those small businesses and family farm. This is the prime motivator for the electorate not the problems with Russia. So your statistics are moot.
LOL ! Of course nothing to do with Russia. Dude, I actually voted in these elections, trying to make it “a vote against Russian sanctions” you just make a clown out of yourself.
So the anti-EU party is pro EU sanctions? Lie to someone else.
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