PiS politicians present laws on defending the homeland
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Increasing the armed forces to 300,000 soldiers, introducing basic military service, but without conscription, financing the modernization of the armed forces beyond the control of the Sejm and transferring responsibility for crisis management to the territorial defense forces – Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński and the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, presented the assumptions of the law on the defending the homeland.
As President Jarosław Kaczyński stated, the creation of this legal act is the crowning achievement of his stay in the government.
"The Duty of Defense Act is from 1967, it was the very middle of communism. It is high time to change it," he said.
The second reason is the international situation. According to PiS politicians, a state that lies on the border between NATO and the EU must have a serious deterrent force and, if necessary, the ability to effectively defend itself for a long time on its own.
"If we want to avoid the worst, which is war, we have to act according to the old rule: you want peace, get ready for war," Kaczynski said.
