Leader of Poland’s ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski did himself no favours while campaigning for next year’s elections.
The 73-year-old Kaczynski blamed the country’s low birth rate on women drinking too much alcohol.
“If young women under the age of 25 are drinking as much as their peers we won’t be seeing any children,” he said.
Opposition parties were outraged with the comments made by Kaczynski and pinned the low birth rate on government failures.
“Yes, there will be no children. Because apartments are now a luxury, the value of salaries is dropping, and because of the changes to the abortion law,” Adrian Zandberg, a left-wing MP, said, The Times reported.
Kaczynski’s Law and Justice party last year all but outlawed abortion in the country in a bid to increase the fertility rate.
Poland has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe with women only having 1.3 children each whereas the average in the continent is around 1.5 children per woman.
Polls amongst women in Poland have shown that they avoid falling pregnant to prevent carrying out dangerous pregnancies to term.
In the month of October alone 33,000 women had abortions outside of Poland through a non-governmental organisation.
“Kaczynski talking about getting drunk shows just how little he knows about women,” said left-wing MP Barbara Nowacka.
Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt
Pictured above: Jaroslaw Kaczynski
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