Following the Magdeburg attack, PiS (the Law and Justice Party) criticizes Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s migration policy, recalling previous decisions by his party that they believe compromised Poland’s security.
In the wake of the recent attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for stricter visa and asylum laws. He urged President Andrzej Duda and the Law and Justice party (PiS) to support the government’s proposed measures.
Responding to Tusk’s appeal, PiS Deputy Spokesperson Mateusz Kurzejewski emphasized that genuine security improvements require Poland to withdraw from the migration pact and hold a referendum opposing the acceptance of illegal migrants. He noted that PiS is currently collecting signatures to initiate such a referendum.
Kurzejewski argued that if PiS had not won the 2015 elections, attacks similar to the one in Magdeburg might have become commonplace in Poland. He criticized the previous PO-PSL government for agreeing to an automatic relocation mechanism in 2014, a decision that PiS reversed upon taking office in 2015.
He further stated, “PO wanted Poland to resemble the scenes at the Magdeburg Christmas market this year, the Berlin market in 2016, or the New Year’s Eve events in Cologne in 2015.”
Additionally, PiS parliamentary club leader Mariusz Błaszczak called on the government to take immediate actions, including disbanding teams investigating alleged misconduct among soldiers and officers, withdrawing charges against a soldier who defended the border, supporting the proposed referendum, unilaterally exiting the migration pact, opposing Germany’s plans to relocate approximately 40,000 illegal migrants to Poland, expelling party members who previously criticized border defenses, and apologizing to soldiers and officers for years of mockery and falsehoods regarding the actual situation at the border.