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Poland's ruling party drags German chancellor into referendum debate (www.euronews.com)
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The ad is amazing, you need to see it yourself to believe it: https://youtu.be/WnqA3QcKewc

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Poland's conservative ruling party unveiled a new campaign advert on Monday that portrays German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an unfavourable light.

In the new advert, party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski pretends to reject a call from Scholz suggesting Poland should raise the retirement age, which is one of the topics of a voter referendum taking place at the same time as the election.

The question targets the main opposition party, Civic Platform and its leader, Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Union president who was on good terms with Germany.

In the spot, Kaczynski speaks into a cellphone and tells a pretend employee of the German Embassy in Warsaw: “Please apologise to the chancellor, but it will be the Poles who will decide the (retirement age) matter in the referendum.

“Germany and Poland, as partners in the centre of Europe, bear joint responsibility for good-neighbourly relations and for a positive trans-border and European cooperation,” the embassy press office said.

After it came to power in 2015, Law and Justice lowered the age to 60 for women and 65 for men, but at the same time encouraged people to work longer to be eligible for higher pensions.

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