They could have dragged immigration into this ad which would make some sense (to their voters) but somehow decided to accuse Germany of dictating retirement age in Poland.
To give you an idea if there’s anyone who could treat this seriously I’ll bring up my recent experience. I was visiting my girlfriends family in a very rural, very eastern part of Poland couple of weeks ago. Her aunt had to steer conversation into politics somehow.
She decided to do that by telling us that her son, who’s been living in Germany for the past 15 years, told her that he and other polish immigrants in Germany all agree that Donald Tusk is a volksdeutsch. The irony was entirely lost on her. These people will eat this up and ask for seconds.
Isn’t Morawiecki also of (distant) German descent? Even JKMs surname Mikke used to be Mücke at some point in history. Heck, when you live as close as we do, neighbours will fall in love regularly…
After it came to power in 2015, Law and Justice lowered the age to 60 for women and 65 for men, but at the same time encouraged people to work longer to be eligible for higher pensions.
So … if the pensions that people are entitled to increase even past the point of official retirement age, what’s the point of defining a retirement age at all?
Imagine your country’s retirement age is 65 years, increasing the retirement age is unpopular, keeping it means taxing the rich. so you keep it at 65 years, but make it so most people can only get a livable pension at, say, 70 years, and pretend people still can retire at 65. And the average voter will fall for it hook, line, and sinker.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Poland’s conservative ruling party unveiled a new campaign advert on Monday that portrays German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an unfavourable light.
In the new advert, party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski pretends to reject a call from Scholz suggesting Poland should raise the retirement age, which is one of the topics of a voter referendum taking place at the same time as the election.
The question targets the main opposition party, Civic Platform and its leader, Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Union president who was on good terms with Germany.
In the spot, Kaczynski speaks into a cellphone and tells a pretend employee of the German Embassy in Warsaw: “Please apologise to the chancellor, but it will be the Poles who will decide the (retirement age) matter in the referendum.
“Germany and Poland, as partners in the centre of Europe, bear joint responsibility for good-neighbourly relations and for a positive trans-border and European cooperation,” the embassy press office said.
After it came to power in 2015, Law and Justice lowered the age to 60 for women and 65 for men, but at the same time encouraged people to work longer to be eligible for higher pensions.
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Thats very helpfull of PiS to explain to its voters, that all of their bad policies are made in Poland.
