The Russian invasion in Ukraine has muted the violent cleavage between the progressive opposition and the ultra-conservative government of Andrzej Duda, in the first line in support for kyiv.
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They scrolled against the tightening of the abortion law – entered into force in January 2021 -, screamed at the implementation of the judiciary, alerted the climate hazard or denounced the fierceness of the leaders against The LGBT community. They are militants or simple progressive citizens, and, for seven years, worry and battles tirelessly against the ultraconservators of the right and justice party (PIS), in power in Poland since 2015. But the invasion of Ukraine by the Russia, the honest enemy, suddenly reversed the priorities.
By February 24, Poland, which already had more than one million Ukrainians on his soil before the war, opened his arms great at his neighbors. A collective and remarkable momentum: more than 2.3 million Ukrainians joined the country in one month, including 300,000 opted for Warsaw. In the big Polish cities, we hear Russian or Ukrainian to each street, the blue and yellow flag buses and trams. “With you with you,” say the urban panels of four meters out of three. Here, Cyrillic posters offer CVIV-19 screening tests; There, telephony operators provide free chips and kits for newcomers. In the countryside and the city, the Poles have opened their sofa bed. Gymnasiums, theaters and concert halls have been transformed into dormitories, schools have educated more than 80,000 Ukrainian children.
The power has encouraged these initiatives. While since the summer of Polono-Belarusian border guards, applying to the letter of new legislation, reinforce the migrants from the Middle East, the Conservative national government gave in a few weeks a formal framework to all the manifestations of hospitality towards Ukrainian refugees. He has just allowed the stay and work of the latter for a period of eighteen months and grants them the same allowances as Poles through a “Pessel”, sesame indispensable for any administrative approach in the country. “We do not call the Ukrainians of” refugees “, but” our guests “,” our brothers “,” Our neighbors of Ukraine “,” said the president, Andrzej Duda on March 25. These chosen words cut the grass under the foot of his opponents.
The entry into the war of Russia, on February 24, introduced a truce on the domestic political scene. As early as March 2, President Duda put his veto to a reform of the educational system that deeply divided the Poles. The next day, it was posted with Rafal Trzaskowski, the progressive Mayor of Warsaw, his great rival of the 2020 presidential election, to consult him on the help to bring to the refugees from Ukraine. The diet also experienced a rare unit: March 11, 450 deputies voted the rise in the defense budget (5 others abstained and the last 5 did not take part in the vote), and the Senate had followed him The step a few days later.
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