In the weekly magazine “Sieci”, Jarosław Kaczyński declares in a special interview: “I will run for President of Law and Justice and ask to be elected for a new term. I have strength, I have a political plan. I want nor that anyone accuses me of being a deserter, of leaving the party and our entire community at such a difficult moment, in a clash with such a brutal and unreliable opponent. I will stay, we will continue to fight.”
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Jarosław Kaczyński is not retiring from politics
In an extensive interview with Jacek and Michał Karnowski (“I stay. We keep fighting. Because Poland is at stake”), Law and Justice President Jarosław Kaczyński declares that he will not withdraw from politics and party management. It also summarizes the current situation of the party, its condition after the last parliamentary elections and before the local government elections. As he himself notes: “we stand on our feet, we continue to fight.”
Just under four years ago we achieved first place with support. However, it was a lonely victory, too small to retain power. That is why we have lost this fundamental electoral battle. This is bad news for us and very bad news for Poland, because a government has come in that no longer cares about our country, Jarosław Kaczyński notes. – However, we are noticing a very clear revival of our voters and social groups who previously looked at us critically and had various grievances. The tours of Poland that we started immediately after the change of government, of which there are many, show a greater number of people coming to our meetings than before, and above all an incomparably greater energy and willingness to act. It’s not too bad for the start of the long road ahead of us.
President Jarosław Kaczyński also refers to the narrative of the current government and the media favorable to them, about the crisis within PiS, the growing division, the internal war and the impending collapse of the party.
We are more united and stronger, better prepared to continue fighting than our adversaries think. But this is of course a difficult moment. There are weaker people who react to the loss of power in a nervous, thoughtless way, there are those who may simply want to join the stronger ones and implement the simplest life strategy. Our political camp now needs unity, decisive leadership and a swift offensive. That’s why I changed my political plans. I previously estimated that leading the party until 2025 would be sufficient
– explains the president of PiS.
Who is causing the crisis?
Jakub Augustyn Maciejewski in the article “Who is causing the agricultural crisis with Ukraine?” is about the protests of farmers who mainly expect their own country to be protected against the flow of cheap food from Ukraine. In the current situation they are defenseless because they are subject to EU restrictions, which do not apply to Ukraine. He also draws attention to another issue that makes the whole situation even more to the disadvantage of the Polish farmer.
Disinformation that, through provocations, heightened emotions and outright lies, created a disastrous image of Poles in Ukraine, stabbing the attacked country in the back. The atmosphere was heated by the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv. Eliza Dzwonkiewicz condemned the Polish farmers and apologized to her “dear Ukrainian friends.” “I cannot pretend that I do not see these actions, which shame Poland on the Polish-Ukrainian border.” Her statement quickly spread on the Ukrainian Internet: “A true Pole would never stab his neighbors fighting for freedom in the back.”
The journalist emphasizes that not only the issue of Polish farmers, but also Polish-Ukrainian relations in general, takes place in many dimensions.
So we are dealing with losses of Polish farmers and a real problem of intelligence and disinformation surrounding Polish-Ukrainian affairs. Unknown perpetrators spilling grain from wagons, thousands of fake news on the Ukrainian Internet and careless statements like those of the Polish consul in Lviv create an atmosphere not of unwillingness, but of rising Polish-Ukrainian hostility. […] And an officer from the north of the Kiev region directly said that Russian disinformation activities around the Polish-Ukrainian border are not pointless. ‘The Russians are preparing a new offensive. From the north, I’m afraid. This stirring up of emotions around protests at the border could later be used for real sabotage and blaming Poland. We have a real war here – such an action is a small thing for the Russian services.”
Division in the coalition
Dorota Łosiewicz analyzes in the article “The big deal in the governing coalition” the extent to which the governing coalition is divided. He notes that the areas of conflict no longer concern only the most visible and obvious dispute over abortion, but also the economy and the continuation of investments already begun. Returns include: attention to the problems of the housing program:
When Minister of Development and Technology Krzysztof Hetman announced the “Start Apartment” project, Krzysztof Kukucki, the senator from the left, who is currently responsible for matters related to construction and housing at the Ministry of Development, distanced himself from it. Other left-wing politicians also criticized the idea of subsidizing loans. “I don’t believe it. When asked about the criticism of loan subsidies, Minister Hetman boasts that as much as 1 billion złoty will be available for social housing. 1 billion for the delivery program. After all, this is the last thing you can brag about for a while of housing crisis […]– wrote Dorota Olko, spokeswoman for Razem, on the X platform (former Twitter) – the party did not join the government, but supported it. As early as February, Minister Hetman tried to calm the dispute. “Currently, at the Ministry of Development and Technology, we are working on three elements to support construction and housing,” the minister said in the Sejm, responding to parliamentary questions.
Dorota Łosiewicz also points out that the ruling coalition is also divided by the Green Deal or CPK.
However, few people know that other three letters also divided the politicians of KO, Left and Third Way.
It concerns ZUS, the dismissal of Prof. Gertruda Uścińska and the lack of a new helmsman at the factory. Everything indicates that… “the coalition of December 13 is increasingly torn by party interests that take precedence over cooperation. […] How long will the ruling coalition’s grudge against PiS be able to last? With such a large number of conflicts arising before the end of the 100 days of the government, it may turn out that this will not be enough for the entire term of office,” the journalist notes.
We also recommend articles: Marek Pyza “Victim or perpetrator?”, Stanisław Janecki “Commission for Commissions”, Konrad Kołodziejski “The failure of the King of Europe”, Maciej Walaszczyk “Sick of hatred”, Piotr Filipczyk “He saved the school of liquidation, now he wants to build a city on your feet”, Małgorzata Wołczyk “Ornamentators of the new power”, Marek Budzisz “Will peasant protests lead to a political revolution in Europe?”, Jan Rokita “Fear of the collapse of Ukraine”, Aleksandra Rybińska “The Lady of (German) Europe”, Dariusz Matuszak “History Million Bullets”, Grzegorz Górny “Where do the elites come from?”. Also recommended is the conversation between Goran Andrijanić and Dariusz “Maleo” Malejonek, singer and guitarist of the band 2Tm2,3 “Płyta na bad times”.
In addition, the weekly magazine also contains commentary on current events by Krzysztof Feusette, Dorota Łosiewicz, Bronisław Wildstein, Andrzej Rafał Potocki, Marta Kaczyńska-Zielińska, Samuel Pereira, Katarzyna and Andrzej Zybertowicz.
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