23/08/23 (Agence Europe) – On 13 August, the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, announced that a referendum on European asylum and migration policy would be held in the run-up to the legislative elections on 15 October. He added that the referendum vote would take place at the same time as the legislative elections. The Prime Minister believes that the following question should be asked: “Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?” Poland and Hungary were the only two countries to vote against the draft regulations on asylum management and migration and on asylum procedures at the meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg on 8 June (see EUROPE 13198/8), on the grounds that they provide for the compulsory relocation of asylum seekers. (SP)