Poland’s president vetoes legislation to prolong benefits for Ukrainian refugees | Poland

The President of the Poland gave vetoed to extend the benefits of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, and following the promise of tightening prosperity payments in the midst of an anti -Ukrainian emotion among the Poles.

Karol Nawrocki, who started to work at the beginning of this month after winning an election in the spring, said that only Ukrainians should receive child benefit payments.

Nawrocki said in a statement, “We are open to helping citizens of Ukraine – this has not changed,” he said. “But after three and a half years, our law should be amended.”

Nawrocki vetoed a bill that would expand the current payment system due to its end in September until March 2026. It is believed that approximately one million refugees have settled in Poland, the majority of women and children since 2022.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized the veto, like others in the government. Labor Minister Agnieszka Dziemiianowic-Bak said, ız We cannot punish people for losing their jobs-not especially innocent children. This is the ABC of human morality.

“President Nawrocki does not accept the privileged treatment of citizens of other countries,” he said. “Therefore, for Ukrainian citizens, he decided to veto help in his current form and present his own legal suggestions.”

The government and the president stuck to the legislative dilemma. TUSK hoped that the Mayor of Warsaw will win the presidential elections of Trzaskowski, the political ally Rafa, but the right -wing Nawrocki won a narrow victory, that is to veto the government legislation. The government may also veto the presidential proposals.

Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski vetoed the legislation and claimed that Nawrocki has constantly risking Poland’s Starlink satellite internet for Ukraine. Nwrocki spokesman Reuters, if a proposed presidential invoice until the end of September, said that Starlink payments may continue.

In February 2022, Poland was one of the most hospitable countries in Europe after Russia’s full -scale invasion, and millions of Poland volunteered to help at the border, to donate to charitable reasons, or to open their homes to refugees.

As time goes by, despite the studies showing that the influx of Ukrainians benefited the Poland economy, the emotion against the Ukrainian gradually increases. A study by the Polish National Development Bank earlier this year found that Ukrainians contributed more than they benefit from taxes and that their labor was very important for economic stability.

Anger was fueled by politicians who wanted to get points. Trzaskowski, who challenged the liberal presidency, first called for Ukrainians to tighten the rules of access to benefits during the unsuccessful election campaign. The proposed measures were supported by TUSK at that time.

Historical issues are often a friction point in Warsaw, and many of whom are responsible for the massacres of Jews and Poles in Ukraine in Poland are angry at the glorification of the nationalist movement.

Nawrocki said on Monday that Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera’s promotion and Soviet communism and the Polish law, which was banned within the scope of the Polish law, said he wanted to make changes to the Polish Penal Code to equalize the promotion of Soviet communism.

Bartosz Cichocki, a ambassador of Ukraine in Poland until 2023, said that the attitudes of the existing people were inevitable after many Ukrainians who made their temporary houses of Poland.

“After the euphoric solidarity in 2022, after the climax of social and political support, it was necessary to be some kind of swing to the other side.