Should we increase the number of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa into our country?

In August 2023 Mateusz Morawiecki announced that his party, Law and Justice, is seeking to use migration in its election campaign, a tactic that helped it take power in 2015. The Polish government wants to hold the referendum alongside the parliamentary election, scheduled for Oct. 15. Morawiecki said that the question would say: “Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?” An opposition politician, Robert Biedron, reacted by saying the migrat…  ion question is pointless because participation in the EU mechanism is not mandatory and can be replaced by other forms of shared responsibility, while Poland itself could be eligible for support or for a waiver of its contribution due to the high number of Ukrainian refugees. Biedron, a European Parliament member for the Left party, posted on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, a letter from EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson. In it, she sets out the terms of the relocation mechanism and the grounds for seeking an exemption.