Ballot boycott called as Euro elections instigate Euroskeptic schism

One upshot of the the weekend’s elections to the European Parliament is that it has sent a schism through the country's Euroskeptics. While one of the major opponents of EU accession, the Polish Family League, is listing candidates for all the constituencies in this country, others, centered around Antoni Macierewicz of the Catholic National Movement and Jan Olszewski of the Movement for the Renovation of Poland, have called for a boycott of the ballot. Indeed, both Macierewicz and Olszewski had even put their opinions down on paper in a statement reading: "Only mass refusal to take part in lies [i.e. the elections] can create sufficient pressure to change the political elites and institute a new group fighting for national interests in power." The statement continues, "Giving a vote in the elections means the resignation of Polish sovereignty." (Gazeta Wyborcza p. 4) M.G.