Italy’s Deputy Prime Salvini meets on Wednesday PiS-chief of Kaczynski in Poland. What unites them, beyond the social promise and the Vision of a Europe without refugees. From Warsaw, Monika Sieradzka.
Matteo Salvini at a rally in Rome
The Meeting of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, the PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski strengthens the right alliances in Europe. For years, the main ideologue of the national conservative Polish party “law and justice says” for Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Both reject the inclusion of migrants and talk of an alleged danger for the traditional Christian values.
With the coalition government, the Lega Nord and the Five star movement, came in the spring of 2018 in Rome to Power, the populist forces in Eastern Europe, new allies. At a Meeting in August 2018 in Milan, Matteo Salvini praised the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the highest tones for the new barbed wire fences on the Hungarian-Serbian and Hungarian-Croatian border. For Orban, the leader of the right-wing populist Lega Nord is regarded as a “Hero and friend”, because it does not prevent migrants to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.
Of the right-wing government of Italy, the Thesis was to hear that immigrants would bring diseases to Europe. This statement was made, Jaroslaw Kaczynski four years ago to a major theme of his election campaign. Italy’s Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, also found a common language with his Czech counterpart Andrej Babis, the promises to his countrymen, not to take in refugees and to defend the “European civilization”.
The social Agenda of the Right
In addition to the xenophobia, social promise to connect the national-oriented populists in Italy and Poland. This social Agenda has secured election victories. In Poland, the introduction of monthly children’s allowance is regarded as the flagship of social policy and the national-conservative. These include a lower retirement age and state subsidies for housing for young couples. Currently, discussions in Warsaw also an additional support for pensioners.
Thanks to the good economic situation in Poland such projects so that the citizens have more money in the pocket could be implemented easily. With its focus on social programs, the PiS takes on traditional political themes of the already weak left-wing parties.
Together against the EU
The Italian Right have a social Agenda In the election campaign, they announced the introduction of a basic income and a lower pension age at admission, the Rom wanted to implement at the cost of a high public debt. As the European Commission threatened with an excessive deficit procedure, a deflected right-wing populists after months of wrangling, in December 2018, finally.
The anti-European rhetoric of the Italians in this debate was commented on by Pro-government media in Poland is very wohlwolllend, because of the stubborn attitude of Warsaw resembled in the dispute with Brussels, the Polish judicial reform. In both cases, we have protested against the “diktats from Brussels”. In Poland shows itself to be less compliant than Italy, because in Warsaw, the controversial reform of the judiciary is systematically carried out, despite all the criticism.
PiS Leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski
The PiS needs achievements
Domestically, the ideological backing from Italy comes at a time that is convenient for the Polish PiS, because they are in urgent need of success. The party came after a corruption scandal in the highest financial authority in Poland-is in trouble. According to media the chief of the Committee for financial supervision (KNF), Marek Chrzanowski I want to save report, a Bank owner before the financial collapse, but a by him designated a financial consultant have to collect a considerable sum of money. The KNF-chief has resigned – but that was only the beginning of the biggest scandal since the inauguration of the PiS.
The KNF had been supported in this approach by Adam Glapinski, the head of the national Bank, wrote the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza. Glapinski, is regarded as a Confidant of the PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, calls since then that the article will be deleted about this topic from the Internet and threatens the journalists with court proceedings. Now he is in Erklärungsnot and have to defend themselves because of the unjustified high salaries for its staff: an officer about 15,000 euros earned in the month, also in PiS. It fits neither to the desired social Image of the government party nor your name “law and justice”.
The Radicals are socially acceptable
2019 is not only the EU-elections, but also to the Parliament elections in Poland. Although the PiS is still ahead in opinion polls, but they worry increasingly about their Image and fights to new groups of voters. Therefore, the recently marginalized radical nationalists in the salon have now become capable of. Recently, the government has, together with you, the 100. Anniversary of the independence of Poland was celebrated.
This week, a foreign enemy was of 28-year-old member of Parliament from the radical nationalist camp to the Secretary of state in the Digitization Department. He is known for his pro-Russian attitude in Poland for a lot of excitement. The PiS doesn’t seem to mind, despite their official anti-Russian rhetoric – just as the pro-Russian sympathies of Viktor Orban and Matteo Salvini.
If European politicians such as the Italian Vice-the Prime pilgrimage to Warsaw, you can knock Jaroslaw Kaczynski himself on the shoulder. The Polish PiS, and the Hungarian Fidesz party seen for years as a pioneer of a Europe of strong Nations, to occur against a “Diktat from Brussels”. Domestically, the new Polish is marketed-Italian Alliance as an evidence for the important role of Poland in Europe. On a European level is a new shoulder-to-shoulder of the right-wing populists, the EU is seeking to consolidate its forces before the elections.