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Pres. Duda calls for fairer wealth distribution

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Jo Harper 06.09.2015 13:02
Wealth is not fairly spread in today’s Poland, President Andrzej Duda said on Sunday.
President Andrzej Duda. Photo: facebook.com/Andrzej DudaPresident Andrzej Duda. Photo: facebook.com/Andrzej Duda

“We need bread in our country to be fairly distributed. Today it is not," Duda told a Harvest Festival at Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, southern Poland.

“Polish farmers have never let us down, even when we had to defend our country,” he added.

With elections to parliament on 25 October, Duda is courting rural and farming communities, many of whom traditionally vote for Law and Justice, or PiS. “It is rural families that have maintained the great tradition of patriotism, faith, hard work and prayer,“ he went on.

Added to the obvious quasi-religious tone of the speech, Duda's use of a language of redistribution also plays into a wider PiS narrative of representing the less priveleged and of using the state as a mechanism for addressing and rebalancing what it considers social ills.

"This pilgrimage is coming here today after the 33rd time. It came here in 1982 for the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers - Solidarity - under martial law [1981-83]. It was then 300,000 people," the president said in a speech to farmers from across Poland, who meet every year in the most important Polish shrine to give thanks for the harvest. (jh)

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