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Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]
So far they are scaling up from "repeat the referendum until the results are "correct" " to "try to remove democratically elected government that we don't like".
It will be interesting to see what comes next and how people react to it. I would say election fraud but that's already probably happened.
Interestingly the first stage of the Houellebecq book "Submission" just happened in real life. If the book, ultimately power is given to an Islamic leader by the traditional right and left working together to keep a nationalist out of power.
I wonder what will be done to keep Le Pen out of an office that the elite clearly don't want her in.
The one thing I tend to agree with PiS about is the need to slow down the whole EU thing (though I'm not as anti-EU as they are). It would be nice to keep open borders and free movement of labor and not much else (maybe a limited federal structure for things like disaster relief).
If the 500 zł thing is ridiculous, then please us what will do the trick.
It's not the worst idea in the world, but the promises were dumb, trying to make it into an entitlement program.
Such a program would have to be means-tested, possibly linked to tax returns.
The real clue is supporting working (married) mothers. Lots of young Polish women want to get married and have kids but they know that's death to their job prospects and Poland remains a country where generally two-wage-earners are necessary to keep a household going. The idea of being a stay at home housewife has never had much appeal in Poland as far as I can tell so trying to promote that won't work.
Mandating employers give maternal leave and pay just makes employers not want to hire women.
The iron law of the workplace is that the more restrictions are placed on employment (including attempts to give people job security) the less employment there will be.
No one has beat that law yet.
