President Andrzej Duda has rubber-stamped a motion to the lower house of parliament to approve the extension of a state of emergency on the Polish-Belarusian border due to the migration issue.
Poland's interior minister has said he will present to parliament further justification for publicising pictures, apparently found on a migrant’s phone, of a man appearing to be having sex with a cow despite it later emerging that the images had been lifted from an old video.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has responded favourably to the government's request to prolong a state of emergency at the Polish-Belarusian border.
The government will ask the president for a 60-day extension to the state of emergency in areas close to the Polish-Belarusian border, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, where hundreds of migrants are trying to enter Poland and thus the EU, is extremely tense, including due to provocations from Belarusian state services, two Polish ministers have said.
A senior Polish security official has said Belarusian soldiers from airborne and special forces units have been seen close to the Polish-Belarusian border, with some of them carrying sniper rifles.
Businesses hit by the state of emergency covering areas adjacent to Poland's border with Belarus can get compensation under legislation passed by parliament on Friday.
The government has declared a state of emergency on the Polish-Belarusian border in order to hide what is going on there, a senior opposition politician has claimed.
A Polish government spokesman has stated that the government will prove in the coming days that the state of emergency is a necessity to protect Poland's borders.
The Sejm (lower house) has not annulled the president's ordinance introducing a state of emergency in areas close to the country’s Belarusian border owing to an alleged attempt by Belarus to destabilise Poland by pushing migrants across the border.
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