World Poland’s former president Lech Walesa fears electoral fraud during the autumn’s elections for the country’s new national assembly. This photo is from when he visited Oslo in 2019. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB Read more Close
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5 July 2023 23:07 – Updated 5 July 2023 23:07
Poland’s former president Lech Walesa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, warns against cheating when a new national assembly is to be elected in the country in October.
– I fear that this autumn’s elections will be neither free nor fair, says 79-year-old Walesa in an interview with the Polish magazine Wprost.
Walesa points out that the leader of the conservative Law and Order party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, risks prosecution if the party loses government power.
Kaczynski and the party will therefore do everything to avoid this, believes the former president.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Monday that a referendum on the EU’s asylum reform will also be held at the same time as the autumn elections.
Poland has marked its opposition to the reform, which requires member states to accept a certain number of asylum seekers or to pay the EU to let them go.
PiS has held government power in Poland since 2015, but has recently been rocked by several scandals. The government has also garnered criticism because it has not managed to curb inflation in the country.
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