⁍ Poland’s ruling nationalists have appointed an ultra-conservative education chief in a new cabinet lineup.

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⁍ Przemyslaw Czarnek, 43, is a lecturer at a Catholic university who has said gay people are ‘not equal to normal people’
Czarnek said schools should protect children from a moral and sexual revolution driven by ‘LGBT ideology

– Poland’s ruling nationalists appear to have taken a turn further to the right on Wednesday with the appointment of an ultra-conservative education chief in a new cabinet lineup, raising the prospect of new friction with the European Union. Following weeks of internal rows over jobs and policies such as women’s and LGBT rights, which threatened to break up the three-party Law and Justice coalition, PiS chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 71, also joined the government as deputy premier. PiS says the reshuffle was needed to streamline decision-making at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has pushed economies around the world into recession, Reuters reports. But critics call it the byproduct of an internal squabble between the ultra-conservative Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and the more pragmatic Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, both of whom are vying to succeed the aging Kaczynski. “I am covinced the government with the new people … will be even better equipped than before to deal with all challenges that await us, both in the internal arena as well as on the global and European arena,” Morawiecki told a news conference. The education ministry, at the heart of PiS’ efforts to instill more conservative values in public life, will go to Przemyslaw Czarnek, 43, a lecturer at a Catholic university who has said gay people are “not equal to normal people.” “We will not allow for children to be exposed to an ideology … that’s contrary to values that have been the foundation of the Polish society for centuries,” Czarnek said Tuesday, per the AP.