Poland's Law and Justice party, which has governed the country since 2015, has found new enemies to stir up its conservative base while pushing Poland rightward. Gay people and migrants are among those who have found themselves demonized, analysts say.
"The PiS government is not only looking for enemies outside, but for years has been consistently building internal enemies: women, gays and lesbians, and during a pandemic even doctors and paramedics," Jarosz said.
"A hate campaign against the LGBT community in Poland has been going on since 2019," he said."It is unprecedented. It has never happened before, we were not even criticized so openly under the communists, as we are now."in Poland and recent polls show growing support for gay marriage. But that has not stopped Kaczynski and his allies from using the TVP station to falsely"equate LGBT circles with pedophiles.
According to him, the government has managed, thus far, to stay in power by tapping into the deep resentments of the Poles who were left behind when the country’s new capitalist economy took off, or who felt unmoored by the rapid societal changes that came after Poland shook off its Soviet shackles and joined the European Union.
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