Jarosław Kaczyński unveiled the question in a video posted on social media on Friday morning, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s polskieradio24.pl website reported.
The plebiscite is set to consist of four questions, with the remaining three to be announced successively on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Kaczyński, who heads Poland’s governing conservatives Law and Justice (PiS), announced in the Facebook video: “The first question will be as follows: ‘Do you support the sale of state-owned companies?’”
He added that the opposition Civic Coalition (KO), led by former Prime Minister Donald Tusk, planned to sell off state-run firms.
Kaczyński, who is also a deputy prime minister, told voters: “We cannot accept this. You will decide whether the wealth of generations will remain in Polish hands.”
On June 15, Kaczyński said in parliament that the government would call a national referendum on the European Union’s proposed new migration policy.
According to Polish authorities, the plan amounts to “forced relocation” of migrants among member states, and therefore “undermines Polish sovereignty,” Kaczyński told MPs.
On July 3, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the ruling conservatives planned to hold a referendum on the EU’s proposed migration deal together with the upcoming parliamentary election, which has since been slated for October 15.
Poland’s Sejm (lower house of parliament) is due to consider a motion for a nationwide referendum at a session next week, the PAP news agency reported.
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Source: PAP, polskieradio24.pl