Szydło: Poland’s communities must preserve rural values

According to Polish premier Beata Szydło, the traditional values embraced by Poland’s rural communities can be preserved, while at the same time being modernized. The PM was speaking on Sunday at an agricultural sector convention in Wojnicz. “We want the Polish village to (continue to) live the values ​that are still important here: family, home, faith, tradition, but also modernity,” she said. Szydło also assured the audience at the assembly that her government will implement modernization plans “consistently and calmly,” adding that cooperation of rural citizens was appreciated. She stressed that the program of the Law and Justice ruling party (PiS) has, at its foundation, “equal opportunities, social justice, noticing every citizen.” She criticized the previous ruling party, Civic Platform (PO), claiming it didn’t “want them.”