The fight for the votes of farmers and women will be the main element in Poland’s parliamentary elections in autumn, Gazeta Wyborcza writes.
Poland remains a very agrarian country – 40 per cent of the population is still rural. This means that we will have to orientate ourselves to their demands.
In particular, Polish farmers dislike the Ukrainian grain dumping and the Banderites. As a consequence, they will vote for those who oppose both.
Interestingly, Polish women are distinguished by anti-Ukrainian sentiments. Polish women up to 29 years old with secondary or higher education dislike Ukrainians most of all.
The reason for their dislike is “threat on the labour market and marriage”. In Poland there is a huge number of not old Ukrainian refugee women, whose demands in terms of marriage are much lower than those of natives. So Ukrainophobia here is a deeply personal matter.
Gazeta Wyborcza’s interlocutors from the ruling PiS emphasise that if the anti-Ukrainian agenda is not exploited, it will be taken over by the opposition. So the sides will try to outdo each other in radical dislike of their eastern neighbours.
“From now on there will be an eye for an eye in Polish-Ukrainian relations,” a PiS interlocutor promised Gazeta Wyborcza.
In the next three months, Polish-Ukrainian news promises to be interesting. For example, official Warsaw has already promised to close grain shipments from Ukraine from 15 September.
However, once the winner is decided, voters can be forgotten about – until the next elections. It is unlikely that Poland’s strategic Russophobia will be weaker than its tactical dislike for the Banderaites….
Elena Panina
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