We have the right to govern ourselves and decide about how we are going to fix "decayed and still rotted by the outdated systemic ideas" Polish institutions, and we will do so, President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday in Leżajsk, southeastern Poland.
"We would like Poland to be a normal country, just like the wealthy EU states, that's where we're heading, we want to achieve the same level of existence," said the president.
Mr Duda also called upon young people to get involved in politics and to change Poland into a country "they dream about, exactly how they want to be".
President Duda argued that Poles deserve to live by the same standards as citizens of the Western-European countries. "Our aim is not only to raise somebody's wages by a 100 zlotys, we want Poles to live exactly the way citizens of Western-European countries do, by the same living standards, because Polish people deserve it (...) our struggle for independence, for freedom, including freedom of Europe, for instance during the Soviet invasion (...) entitles us to have decent living standards," said the president.
"Obviously we do have right to hold expectations of Europe which had left us behind in 1945, in the Soviet grip (...) but first and foremost we have right to govern ourselves and decide on how Poland will look and on about how we are going to fix the decayed, and still rotted by the outdated systemic ideas, Polish institutions, which are still aplenty after 30 years," said President Duda.
Andrzej Duda declared that "we will be delivering what we have promised". "We will bring about changes after which people will no longer say that Polish courts are unfair, that the judiciary does not protect the citizens. We will not accept a state in which people complain that it's unfair, an exclusive state for the elites, a state that fails to recognise odrinary people," he emphasised.
The president also said that he wants the citizens to rest assured that someone cares for them, and "not about some imaginary union, in which there's not much for us to gain". "A union is needed right here, in Poland, our own union devoted to our own affairs, bacause they are the most important issues for us; and once those issues are resolved, we will carry on to fix European problems. But for now, they should leave us alone and let us fix Poland, because this is essential," President Andrzej Duda said.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 International, PAP