The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the administration, led by Marcin Kierwiński from the Civil Coalition, decided to extend the temporary border control on the Polish-Slovak border until February 1, 2024. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration explains that this happened after “the situation on this section of the state border was analyzed”.
The PiS government decided to introduce the controls because of a growing wave of illegal migration of people who traveled the so-called Balkan route from Greece and Bulgaria to Slovakia and Poland, and finally to Germany.
Expansion of control on the Slovakian border. Before the elections, KO criticized PiS for this
According to Onetti, the decision of Donald Tusk's government regarding the situation at the border is surprising, because when the controls were introduced in the autumn, the opposition at the time thought it was unnecessary and mainly a “pre-election stunt”.
– PiS is implementing the scenario of Poland's exit from the European Union, said in October the then deputy of KO, Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, today the Minister of Culture, who put the public media into liquidation.
Onet asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the administration what had happened that PO politicians, who had previously thought that border controls were unnecessary, now continued to do so themselves. The editors did not receive a reply.
They didn't know what was really going on.
Local activists of law and justice speak directly about the unexpected decision of the government. – They were criticized because they didn't know what was really happening – said Piotr Bek, star of the Tatra Mountains and leader of PiS in Podale.
The data of the border guards show that after the introduction of control at the border points with Slovakia, the number of illegal immigrants entering Poland from this country has decreased dramatically.
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