Kaczyński: we reject the postcolonial concept of Poland
In a recent speech, Jarosław Kaczyński, the president of the PiS party, made references to the recent history of Gdańsk, including the strikes in 1980 and the signing of the August Agreements. In his opinion, almost forty years ago, the goal of “Solidarity” was, among others, improving the lives of “ordinary employees,” and today the issue is coming back.
In this context, he recalled announcements from the Saturday party convention in Lublin concerning raising the minimum wage to PLN 3,000 from January 1, 2020, and to PLN 4,000 from January 1, 2024. “This is part of a much more long-term plan, in which our country first reaches the average EU, then the average of the so-called old EU, and finally it catches up with our western partners,” Kaczyński added.
During the speech, he also emphasized that “we reject the postcolonial concept of Poland as a country of cheap labor, a concept that has already hurt us a lot and should no longer harm us.” The PiS president emphasized that Poles “deserve the same standard of living as [people] in the West,” and our country should catch up in this respect with the standard of living in Germany.
(PAP)
