PM Kopacz wants to add question to referendum

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said on Friday that she expects that President Andrzej Duda will include questions proposed by other political parties and not only those put forward by Law and Justice (PiS). "Poland is not a single-party country," said Ewa Kopacz. "President Duda said he wants to be the president of all Poles. I wished him to succeed. Today, I feel disappointed. If I were harsh, I would say that I feel cheated," Kopacz added. President Andrzej Duda during his televised address to the nation proposed a second referendum which would be held on the same day as parliamentary elections – October 25. He wants to ask the nation, whether they want to lower the retirement age to 65 (for men) and 60 (for women) from the current threshold set at 67 for both sexes. He also proposed asking Poles whether they want to reverse the government’s decision to reduce the mandatory school age to six from seven as well as whether the country should ban the sale of state-owned forests.