Nekdanji karizmatično vodja Solidarnosti, ki je imel ključno vlogo pri padcu komunizma na Poljskem, in kasnejši prvi demokratični predsednik Poljske (v vlogi, v kateri se ni najbolj znašel), pravi, da bi zmaga Le Penove in poraz Merklove na letošnjih volitvah prinesli zmago populizma in razpad EU:
Lech Walesa, the Gdansk shipyard electrician whose mass movement Solidarity helped tear down the Iron Curtain in 1989, said a win by Marine Le Pen in French presidential elections coupled with the loss of Chancellor Angela Merkel in the German parliamentary ballot this year would pull apart the European Union 60 years after the bloc’s inception.
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Asked about the rise of Donald Trump, Walesa told reporters that such elections happen when people don’t take “good care of democracy,” aren’t active and don’t engage with voters about their country’s most pressing issues.
“We’ll either start taking democracy and freedom seriously, or Trump and his political allies will show us what doesn’t work and what needs to change,” Walesa said. “Demons are being awoken and unless we start working to resolve this, the street and the populist demagogues who run it will take charge.”
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