67% of Poles back deporting unemployed Ukrainian men, poll shows
Some 79% of positive responses came from Poles identifying as right-wing, although the proposal also found strong support among voters of the ruling liberal-left coalition.
A recent poll shows that 67.2% of Poles support the deportation of unemployed Ukrainian men aged 25-60, according to a survey conducted by the Polish IBRiS Institute for Market and Social Research. The Law and Justice party (PiS), led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, announced a hardline migration policy ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
If the party comes to power, it would begin deporting unemployed Ukrainian men who are not legally employed. While 67.2% of respondents supported the idea, 23.4% opposed it. The proposal received strong support from right-wing Poles, with 52% of government voters also in favor. However, the Polish government rejected the deportation proposal, calling it "pure absurdity and populism."
The Interior Ministry stated that 95% of Ukrainian men in Poland are legally employed, and there are approximately 2 million Ukrainians living in the country, with half of them granted temporary protection as refugees. The rise in aggression against Ukrainians in Poland, including a 30% increase in hate crime reports, is partly due to a diplomatic dispute between Ukraine and Poland over naming a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a WWII resistance movement remembered in Poland for its role in the Volyn massacres.
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