{"id":352697,"date":"2024-04-12T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/04\/12\/polexit-polonia-uscita-ue-estrema-destra\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:17:59","slug":"polexit-the-far-right-polish-party-aiming-to-lead-movements-to-leave-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/04\/12\/polexit-the-far-right-polish-party-aiming-to-lead-movements-to-leave-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Polexit, the far-right Polish party aiming to lead movements to leave the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; More to the right than the right, aiming to take Poland out of the European Union. The <strong>Polexit<\/strong> party, founded in 2018, has launched its campaign for the June 6-9 European Parliament elections. <strong>The slogan is one, and it is clear: Let&#8217;s take Warsaw out of the EU for the sake of Poles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the head of Polexit is <strong>Stanis\u0142aw \u017b\u00f3\u0142tek<\/strong>, a conservative ultra-catholic who ran for\u00a0the Presidency of the Republic in 2020 but obtained only 0.23 percent of the votes. However,\u00a0his popularity has since grown in Poland, mainly due to the\u00a0<strong>strenuous opposition to the Green Deal<\/strong>. \u017b\u00f3\u0142tek claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/politics\/news\/polish-far-right-begins-election-campaign-with-polexit-demand\/?utm_source=Euractiv&amp;utm_campaign=71f5c6398e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_26_02_03_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-e05cd8f31e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;We are under the thumb of the European Commission, which is governed by the Germans and the French.&#8221;<\/a> Like many radical right-wingers, \u017b\u00f3\u0142tek uses TikTok extensively to convey his message and attract the younger part of the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanislawZoltek\/status\/1777178070891262171<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polexit is not the only movement that wants to take Poland out of the European Union<\/strong>, but it is the oldest and with the largest following. In the run-up to the next elections, three other committees have sprung up that put leaving the Union as a focal point in their program. Despite pro-Europe <strong>Donald Tusk<\/strong>\u00a0taking office as Prime Minister in the 2023 elections,\u00a0euroscepticism in the country remains strong. So strong that <strong>a whole series of movements to the right of Law and Justice (PiS)<\/strong>, a strongly conservative and nationalist party that has led Poland in recent years, are spreading.<\/p>\n<p>\u017b\u00f3\u0142tek has already served as an MEP in the 13th legislature (2014-2019) and would like to return \u00a0to bring Polish interests, as he understands them, to Brussels to unhinge the European institutions from within. <strong>Polexit&#8217;s ambition is to unite\u00a0all parties of the eurosceptic ultra-right<\/strong>. This union could find fertile ground in Poland, as,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/politics\/news\/polands-eu-enthusiasm-fades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a survey by the Ibris Institute<\/a>, the percentage of EU supporters in the country has dropped by 11 percent\u00a0in the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader Stanis\u0142aw \u017b\u00f3\u0142tek wants to end the &#8220;yoke&#8221; of Brussels: &#8220;We are under the domination of the French and Germans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7870,"featured_media":352655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26475,26748,25952,27553,27554],"class_list":["post-352697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-european24-en","tag-poland-and","tag-polexit-en","tag-stanislaw-zoltek-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352785,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352697\/revisions\/352785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}