Morawiecki: I’m Connecting the Dots. The AfD Is a Threat to Poland

Mateusz Morawiecki says he is connecting the dots, and the picture he sees is alarming for Poland. Speaking on Radio Zet, the former prime minister said a victory by Germany’s Alternative for Germany, or AfD, would pose a threat to his country.

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I’m connecting the dots here, because if the AfD is a very radical party that may also formulate revisionist demands toward Poland, including the return of territories, and has the audacity to demand compensation from Poland because we did not hand over a person suspected of involvement in blowing up the German-Russian pipeline, these are very alarming signals.

Morawiecki said he was among the few politicians who did not welcome Germany’s rising defense spending and stronger army. He said he would prefer “full balance between Poland and Germany” and, in reality, a stronger Polish army. He pointed to what he described as troubling signals from the AfD, including possible revisionist demands toward Poland and calls for compensation over Poland’s refusal to hand over a man suspected of involvement in blowing up the German-Russian pipeline.

He rejected a boycott of the AfD, saying politicians should talk to its representatives and try to persuade them. Morawiecki blamed the party’s growing support on the European Union’s left-liberal elites in Brussels. In his view, opposition to job losses, migration and climate policy has produced a major social backlash.

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We should talk to them and persuade them.

Asked about Donald Tusk’s statement that only idiots or traitors could celebrate the AfD’s triumph, Morawiecki said people simply had different views. He also attacked Tusk over migration, climate policy and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, asking who had supported the German-Russian gas pipeline when Tusk belonged to the party he led.

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The rise of the AfD is the child of the left-liberal elites in Brussels.

Morawiecki also discussed the Zondacrypto affair. He urged politicians to back an investigative commission proposed by his Rozwój Plus group, calling it a test for Poland’s political class. He said he had repeatedly warned right-wing politicians about cryptocurrencies and hoped the affair would damage Civic Platform and the Civic Coalition.

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There are no idiots and traitors, there are people who have a completely different view.