Ahead of parliamentary elections on October 15, the PiS party has portrayed opposition leader Donald Tusk as a representative of German and EU interests.
Tusk, the European Council president from 2014 to 2019, is the leader of the opposition Civic Platform. Photo: AFP
Tusk, who is from the northern Polish city of Gdansk, with historically strong links to Germany, was the president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019, and has been subjected to such name-calling for years. With the elections drawing closer, PiS is ahead in most polls, but its lead over PO has narrowed as it faces pressure from its core farming constituency over cheaper Ukrainian grain imports.
“Poles remain overwhelmingly committed to continued membership of the EU, and any hint of supporting ‘Polexit’ would be electoral suicide,” he said.A February survey of the Institute of Public Affairs think tank found the number of Poles who evaluate Polish-German relations positively fell from 72 percent in 2020 to 48 percent, while those who viewed them negatively increased from 14 percent to 35 percent.
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