We have already become accustomed to the fact that the European mainstream only rewards those Poles who can sing in a salon choir in a left-wing tone and under the direction of Brussels. That is why Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski received the European Construction Award from the Economic Circle in Barcelona on Tuesday “for his work in welcoming Ukrainian refugees to Warsaw, supporting minority rights and defending the rule of law.”
As for the first merit, we will not argue – the mayor of the city of Warsaw has not particularly hindered us in our haste to take Ukrainians from the eastern border and receive them in our homes. He also controlled the aid campaign no worse than the presidents of Przemyśl, Radom or many other cities. As for the other “merits”, so welcome to the West – indeed, Mr. President sets Stakhanov standards within the framework of total opposition and the climate of the rainbow.
Which is very telling – Mario Draghi and Ursula von de Leyen have already received the same award in the presence of the mayor of Warsaw. So let them reward their own country before the conservatives finally rule in response to the disintegration and degradation of Europe led by socialists. Even in Spain, where Trzaskowski was visiting, the left suffered a historic defeat in Sunday’s elections. So let’s hope that soon the praise singers of progress, gender theory and climate can enjoy themselves on the highest salon stools.
I only pity the Spanish King Philip VI, who has to shake hands with peculiar Poles now and then, and now Michnik and now Trzaskowski, thinking (thanks to prompters) that he is dealing with the most remarkable minds and leaders of the contemporary Poland. The monarch would be a little surprised to know how many millions of Poles associate Trzaskowski with the breakdown of democracy rather than with its defense. Predictably, Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski used every opportunity presented to him to portray his own country in media interviews as a hostage in the hands of President Kaczyński’s regime.
The longest interview with Trzaskowski was published, it seems, by “EL PAÍS”, a daily newspaper considered the official bulletin of the Socialist-Communist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who received a red card from the association last Sunday. elections and forced early elections due to the magnitude of the defeat. For the receiver of the Spanish media, the fact that only two “red” media published interviews with Trzaskowski is a clear fact that he is treated there as a representative of leftist thinking and a progressive agenda. However, let’s look at excerpts from the conversation published in EL PAÍS on Tuesday, because the Warsaw President’s warnings regarding the state of our democracy should, however, take us over (albeit like last year’s snow):
Poland is still a democracy, but a democracy under attack. I participated in the last presidential election and it was democratic but unfair. The government spends millions on propaganda, while we have limited budgets by law. And now the government is using all state tools at its disposal to complicate our lives. We note this following yesterday’s decision to create a special commission to investigate ties with Russia, which would suggest that Donald Tusk maintained them when he was prime minister. It’s a real scandal. It looks like a Bolshevik witch hunt from the 1930s. And of course it is unconstitutional. In short, I do not believe in systematic electoral fraud, but I believe that the electoral process is unfortunately in danger.
Of course, Trzaskowski and company live in a constant sense of danger, retching, which is why the smiling president of the capital Warsaw rallied for the award of King Felipe VI, and the mainstream Spanish press is accustomed to him and his ilk that is, only those who complain about the Kaczyński regime in Poland. The “Bolshevik witch hunt” had not yet begun, so Trzaskowski, though unknown to anyone in Spain, even decided to give some advice to “Friends of the People’s Party”. After all, he brags in an interview, he has a PhD, so he knows better. And the editors of “EL PAÍS”, known for its admiration of the far European left and hatred of conservatives, took from Trzaskowski what it needed, namely a blow to the European right:
Last Sunday, Spain became the latest European country to turn right, with a huge rise in the far right. Are we in the middle of a cycle change?
Trzaskowski: Unfortunately, populists are everywhere. When PiS came to power in Poland, I told everyone that this is not just a Hungarian or Polish phenomenon, but that populist forces are undermining democracy where they can. I remember the disbelief of my American friends. After Trump, they understood what I was talking about. It is very different when centre-right democratic parties, such as the People’s Party, win elections, and it is different when they decide to form a coalition with Vox, as this will facilitate the promotion of populism on a large scale in Europe.
In the European People’s Party, your political family in Europe, there is a tendency to move closer to the extreme right.
Trzaskowski: Not everywhere. Certainly not in Poland. Populists call me a liberal and a crazy leftist, and I’m still in the EVP. But yes, sometimes we see that, especially at the local level, the parties of the political center are thinking about forming pragmatic coalitions with the right. But I can tell you that this will not end well, because it means that we, the democratic parties of the EPP, are legitimizing the populists, and we should not be doing that.
Another message for the People’s Party?
Trzaskowski: I have many friends in the People’s Party, many of them are mayors, like the one in Madrid. So I’m rooting for them, but I hope they don’t get forced or decide to ally themselves with Vox. Is dangerous. It may be a little inconsiderate to give political advice to friends, but I want to warn them.
Knowing the Spaniards and the fact how allergic they already reacted to similar advice from Donald Tusk in 2022 (especially since no one asked for it), especially now after the historic success of VOX – Dr. Trzaskowski be of little use.
Anyway, Trzaskowski’s interview in the paper has already been brilliantly commented on by the VOX MEP with a tweet saying:
This pathetic mayor of Warsaw says VOX is dangerous, but the German social democrats, all corrupted by Gazprom and friends of Putin, seem so great to him…
Even more astonishing allegations were made by Trzaskowski in an interview with the leftist “El Periodico de Catalunya”, where he admitted that the journalist was right about the brutality of the Morawiecki government with which Syrian immigrants were treated as opposed to Ukrainian immigrants. He also recalled that the government’s attitude “served to foment xenophobia in Poland. During the crisis in the Mediterranean, Kaczyński even said that migrants bring diseases. Right-wing politicians said immigrants would rape our women. They have succeeded in terrifying people outside our culture.”
In addition, he recalled the planned “Bolshevik tribunal for Tusk”, again forgetting that he was talking to journalists, with which Bolshevism is quite well associated. Naturally, he announced a threat to Polish democracy, mentioned the persecution of the opposition and praised his efforts to bring Warsaw closer to Barcelona in his climate plan. President Trump! Nowhere in the world is it so bad, populist and repulsive as in his native Poland.
It is good that Trzaskowski’s tour of Barcelona was short and that decent media did not want to talk to him. The less Trzaskowski in Spain (who just turned right!) the better for Poland. After all, no one else demonizes and mocks their own country as extensively as the Poles themselves of the anti-Polish opposition.
Source: wPolityce