The left-wing opposition alliance Lewica lodged an official complaint with the parliament’s ethics committee in Warsaw on Monday.
During a performance on Saturday, Kaczynski claimed that excessive drinking by younger women was responsible for Poland’s low birth rate. The statistical average birth rate there in 2020 was about 1.4 children per woman. In Switzerland the value was around 1.5, in France 1.8.
“For example, if the situation continues that girls, young women, drink as much as their male peers until the age of 25, then there will be no children,” the 73-year-old said, according to the PAP agency. . In addition, Kaczynski claimed that men could drink excessively for 20 years before developing alcoholism — but women only for two years.
Left-wing politician Robert Biedron spoke of ‘shameful statements. The wife of football star Robert Lewandowski (formerly Bayern Munich, now Barcelona), Anna Lewandowska, wrote on Facebook: “Enough – it annoys me when politicians falsely accuse women instead of seeing the real problems.” The fitness trainer Ewa Chodakowska – one of the most famous influencers in Poland – spoke of a “top of hatred” against women.
(SDA)