In the new issue of the weekly magazine “Sieci”, Beata Szydło, PiS member of the European Parliament, tells us how to win the parliamentary elections and how to respond to the opposition’s dirty campaign. “Everyone in the United Right has to do their best. The well-fed hangovers also need to wake up, and those who have forgotten why they are in politics – remember. I will repeat what I have always said: work, humility, moderation,” the former prime minister explained.
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“Tusk will not drag us into the quagmire of a dirty campaign”
Speaking to Michał Karnowski (“Tusk doesn’t drag us into the quagmire of a dirty campaign”), Beata Szydło, former prime minister and member of the European Parliament, talks about what the parliamentary election campaign will look like.
Unfortunately, it will be aggressive and difficult. After several months of campaigning, already being waged by the opposition, it is clear that they will use all means to increase division, divide people and incite aggression by dirty methods. The aim is to increase tension in the country week after week
– explains and at the same time emphasizes that… “the opposition must be made aware that by arousing unrestrained bad emotions, inciting hatred, it is taking responsibility. I hope she comes to her senses.”
The former prime minister also explains why the opposition is acting in this way.
The year 2015 was such a trauma for the PO and Tusk that they decided their response would not be better work on the program, on their own offer, but an attempt to reverse the election results. […] this internal war started after 2005. When Tusk, enraged by the defeat in the presidential election against the late President Lech Kaczyński, broke PO-PiS, destroyed Poland’s hopes for a fundamental reconstruction of the state, chose an alliance with post-communists, launched the language of hatred, media violence and hatred that accompanies us to this day. It is this politician who is responsible for the current state of public debate in Poland
– say.
“Evil Face”
Marcin Wikło writes in the article “Bad face” about Iwona Hartwich and the real reasons for the protest she organized in the corridors of the Sejm. Financial support for people with disabilities is a subject that evokes emotions, but also compassion for people who struggle daily with the hardships of life and care. However, the last protest of representatives of this environment differs significantly from what happened in 2018.
Neither the head of her club, Borys Budka, nor MPs Grzegorz Napieralski and Jan Grabiec, who had been preparing a strike against the government for several weeks, knew that a group led by a KO MP would appear in the Sejm. There was a big event planned that morning. lex pilot – tells a person associated with one of the opposition parties. On that day, a public hearing took place on the bill, which the opposition argued should give TVP a privileged place on digital platforms and cable networks. Even the media supporting the opposition had problems that day. What to show? The lex pilot case went virtually unnoticed. This day was “won” by Iwona Hartwich, who demanded that the following day the Sejm consider the civil law to raise the amount of the social pension (as of March 1, 2023 it is PLN 1,588.44 gross) to the level of the lowest national salary, ie PLN 3,490 gross
– writes Marcin Wikło.
Iwona Hartwich’s arbitrary initiative piqued the interest of journalists who flooded Borys Budka with questions about why the bill had not yet been introduced by the Civic Coalition club.
When things got out of hand, Budka had to stay in shape, although KO politicians smile when they say it annoyed him. He said publicly that the new government’s first decision would be to agree to these demands, and inside he was seething. He’s had enough of Iwona and everyone knows it, says one of the MPs. Finally, the Civic Coalition submitted its draft (identical to the civil one) which will probably be discussed at the mid-April meeting. – If it was important to the party, it wouldn’t have ended so amicably. There would be pressure to make such an act urgent, demand an extraordinary session of the Sejm, etc. And look what is happening, they are in progress, negotiations with the ministry are underway, peace and quiet
– indicate the interlocutors of the journalist of the weekly “Sieci”.
“Murder Outside Politics”
Marek Pyza, in the article “Murder outside politics”, comments on the verdict heard last week by the assassin of the President of Gdańsk. The journalist draws attention to the statement of judge Aleksandra Kaczmarek, who clearly rejected the political motives of the perpetrator.
Linking the attack to politics is an over-interpretation that results from public commentary on the case, not the actual beliefs of the accused. The extremes of his views were independent of specific political circumstances. He was looking for an explanation for his sense of injustice. There is no evidence that the suspect was accompanied by obsessive thoughts about the target of the attack, namely Paweł Adamowicz. […] He was an arbitrary person and symbolized in the mind of the defendant the original source of harm perceived by him, namely the judiciary in Gdańsk and the Civic Platform. He was also, in the opinion of the defendant, an important person whose murder would be spectacularly high-profile
said the representative of the judiciary in charge of the case.
Marek Pyza describes how the opposition tried to present a very different view of the matter to the public.
They blamed Adamowicz’s death on journalists who published material critical of Gdańsk’s president. Just writing his troubles with the law was almost drafted to incite murder. It was said that Wilmont was just a tool, and the media were really responsible for the tragedy of January 13, 2019, they would have blood on their hands. Although “their” editorials were spared at the same time, and “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Newsweek” and TVN24 wrote about the problems with Adamowicz’s ownership statements
we are reading.
We also recommend articles by: Milena Kindziuk “Poland Defend the Pope!”, Konrad Kołodziejski “No Change in Berlin”, Dorota Łosiewicz “Cheeky as a Child”, Goran Andrijanic “Food as a Weapon”, Jan Rokita “American Ambiguity”, Aleksandra Rybińska “Very Late Abolitionists.” Also worth recommending is the conversation between Jakub Augustyn Maciejewski and Mateusz Mrozek, head of the department dedicated to monitoring disinformation in the Scientific and Academic Computer Network of Poland – National Research Institute (“1600 accounts on the Internet try to shake Poland”) .
In addition, the weekly also features commentary on current events by Krzysztof Feusette, Dorota Łosiewicz, Bronisław Wildstein, Andrzej Rafał Potocki, Marta Kaczyńska-Zielińska, Samuel Pereira, Alina Czerniakowska, Piotr Cywiński, Wiktor Świetlik, Katarzyna Zybertowicz.
More in the new issue of the weekly magazine “Sieci”.
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Source: wPolityce
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