Marek Błoński is the neo-president of PAP. However, in an interview with Tygodnik Sieci, he was not sure whether a request to amend the National Court Register had already been submitted, but that is not what night media takeover operations in Poland are about. Around 3 a.m. he showed up at the headquarters from where he is supposed to run the Agency. He was accompanied by several tall men in unmarked clothing – they did not identify themselves, and police later admitted that they did not identify them and did not check who entered the building. The parliamentary intervention of Law and Justice politicians was based on investigating the legal basis for Błoński’s accession to office. Ultimately, the neo-president locked himself in his office on the second floor for some time, where he spent several tens of minutes. He did not reach the top floor, where the PAP chief’s office is located.
The second person who attempted to enter the building both in the evening and in the morning was a patron Bartosz Przeciechowski of the Lublin District Bar Association, who claimed to be a member of the PAP’s supervisory board. Przeciechowski once became famous for enlisting the Lublin Bar to collect signatures for the candidate for the Senate of Poland 2050: Jacek Trela. During the conversation, Przeciechowski was, let’s call it euphemistically, not very elegant, he indulged in crude jokes, and his mockery of politicians who were supposedly “orgasmic” in his jokes was even described by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. He once assured in Gazeta Wyborcza that lawyers should ‘keep an eye on the hands of all authorities’. In practice, however, this certainty does not work if the patron himself believes that he has authority.
More lawyers showed up in the building during the night. Lawyer Michał Gajdus also failed to enter the office. He was the only one who was afraid to introduce himself by name. One of the reasons may be the fact that Gajdus is politically involved: he performed at Rafał Trzaskowski’s Poland of the Future Campus, and was also a defender of the “rule of law” and “Free Courts”. In turn, Maria Sankowska-Borman announced in advance that she would not be able to cope with legal arguments in a conversation with MP Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, who demanded clarification about the presence of unauthorized persons in PAP.
This is what the takeover of Tusk’s institutions in Poland looks like in the 21st century.
Editorial / JAM
Source: wPolityce