Younger girls consuming an excessive amount of is responsible for Poland’s low beginning fee, complains ruling get together’s chief

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chief of the ruling Regulation & Justice get together, made the remark at a gathering with voters late on Saturday in Elk, northeastern Poland.

It was simply the newest in a string of current broadsides by Kaczynski at targets as different as Poland’s opposition, its transgender group and Germany. He’s been touring small cities to bolster assist for his get together forward of the overall elections anticipated in October 2023. 

“We’re not going to see any infants if ladies, younger girls, proceed to drink like their equals till they’re 25,” Kaczynski, 73, who has by no means married and has no youngsters, mentioned to laughter from the viewers.

“The fewest youngsters in Poland are in Warsaw, so it’s not solely an financial problem, but additionally a sure angle of individuals, particularly girls,” he added. 

Poland’s fertility fee has been under the European Union’s common and the nation final yr noticed its steepest inhabitants drop since World Struggle II. On the identical time, the information present extra youngsters are actually born to girls from city areas together with Warsaw. 

Ladies on common drink considerably lower than males, in accordance with the authorities’s company for the prevention of alcohol-related issues. About 10% of Polish girls aged 18 to 29 drink greater than 7.5 liters (1.98 gallons) of alcohol a yr and most are single, unemployed or college students from massive cities, the data on its web site reveals.   

Civic Platform lawmaker Barbara Nowacka said on Twitter that Kaczynski’s remarks confirmed how out of contact he’s with “girls, our plans, desires and lives.”

Regulation & Justice rose to energy in 2015, partly because of its promise of lavish child bonuses for larger households. Since then, Poland has imposed a near-total ban on abortions, sparking months of road protests and condemnation from European lawmakers. 

The get together’s bid for a 3rd consecutive time period in workplace is now trying shaky as a result of nation’s deepening cost-of-living disaster.