Chairman Kaczynski said.....

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We have a thread about Polish President, it is time to start a thread about the leader of the biggest opposition party, PiS - Law and Justice, Jarosław Kaczyński. His opinions and ideas uttered at press conferences, party meetings and interviews are pearls, indeed.

He said today: The ruling party, PO - Civic Platform, and its leader, Prime Minister Donald tusk, is morally and politically responsible for the former President`s, Lech Kaczyński`s, death in the plane catastrophe.


Yesterday he suggested that Poland lost her sovereignty and is under German and Russian control.



Poland no ‘Russian-German condominium’ says Sikorski
10.09.2010 17:26

Poland ’s foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski (right) has sharply criticized opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski for his latest outburst, describing Poland as a “Russian-German condominium”.

Minister Sikorski was referring to an interview granted to the right-wing Gazeta Polska daily by Kaczynski, the Law and Justice chairman, in which he used the description “Russian-German condominium” while speaking about Poland under the present government of Civic Platform and PM Donald Tusk, arguing that they are far too eager to bow down to the wants of Berlin and Moscow.

“I consider this a slanderous remark for our country”, Minister Sikorski said, adding that “Jaroslaw Kaczynski has lost his mind”.

The Foreign Minister also spoke out sharply against his predecessor, Anna Fotyga - head of diplomacy under the coalition government led by Kaczynski, who apparently shares the Law and Justice leader ’s opinion.

“Today, Anna Fotyga says Poland is a Russian-German condominium, yet some months back she wanted to become ambassador of this ‘condominium’ at the United Nations. And it was this very condominium which secured for her, with considerable effort, a high ranking post in an international organization. A post she had forfeited because of a trivial reason”, Sikorski lashed out.

Anna Fotyga held a position at the International Labour Organization. In August, she resigned in protest over a statement by Poland
’s newly elected head of state Bronislaw Komorowski, who said that Georgia cannot count on him to such an extent as the late president Lech Kaczynski.

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Kaczynski refuses to shake hands with President, PM
26.09.2010 13:53

Head of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said that he is to symbolically boycott the PM and president by not shaking their hands.

In an interview with the Polish edition of Newsweek, Kaczynski blames the leaders of the Civic Platform party over the responsibility of the Smolensk air crash of 10 April, as well as the removal of the Smolensk cross which was originally placed outside the Presidential Palace by scouts following the crash.
Law and Justice chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski says that the Church “is being punished by the [political] establishment”, adding that many clerics supported Law and Justice in the presidential elections.

“The establishment wants to tell the Church that they have no right to support its political adversaries,” Kaczynski tells Newsweek, adding that “the whole affair [over the Smolensk cross] was a well planned act of provocation.”

Jaroslaw Kaczynski also told the weekly that he believes Law and Justice have a good chance of doing well in the general election billed for 2011, stating that we would once again like to become Prime Minister. He also hinted that Law and Justice stalwart Zbigniew Ziobro may don the party leadership in future elections.

Comments:

TH
26/09/2010 14:11:04
Maybe it just as well that they don't shake hands. Jaroslaw's bad luck might rub off on them. His party will ever be elected again with him running it.
Antifa
26/09/2010 14:17:05
I'm sure Komorowski and Tusk are no doubt heartbroken at not having the opportunity to shake hands with this mental and physical midget.
fred
26/09/2010 14:20:51
This guy should go to the madhouse. He risks further civil unrest and in case next riots in Warsaw relating to this cross will have a casualty he will easily blame others. His time is clearly over.
AS
26/09/2010 14:52:33
I can't understand why his party does not get rid of him, he's mentally afflicted. Not even the Church can save him anymore!
Z
26/09/2010 15:32:19
The plane was trying to land in fog at a seldom used airport and he blames the government. He is out of touch with reality.
Expat
26/09/2010 16:08:14
....and if THAT doesn't work, he'll hold his breath and turn blue!!
Ivan Kinsman
26/09/2010 16:53:37
The guy is a tosser and this shows why. The church authorities wanted the cross to be moved to a nearby church so he is talking crap as usual. It's about time he left politics and went home once and for all to mummy.
n5sud
26/09/2010 18:01:21
Better for Tusk and Komorowski. Lord knows where Jaro's hands have been.
Tommy
26/09/2010 18:17:01
politician in "acting like an idiot" shocker

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Sikorski - ‘Is Kaczynski on drugs?’
01.10.2010 09:39

Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski (pictured right) wondered yesterday if leader of the Law and Justice party Jarosław Kaczyński “was on drugs” after he sent a letter to ambassadors warning of “Russian imperialism”.

Sikorski said that opposition parties were always in a position where they could go further than the government in their statements but questioned whether Jarosław Kaczyński “was on pills or not this time”.

In the letter sent by the leader of the Law and Justice party this week to ambassadors and MEPs, Kaczynski said the European Union and the United States should oppose Russia extending its economic and political zone of influence.

Washington and Russia should also give greater assistance to countries that want to free themselves from the Russian sphere of influence, Kaczynski said.

Sikorski’s comment is presumably linked to Kaczynski admission that he was talking tranquilisers during the recent presidential election campaign following the death of his twin brother, Lech.

Kaczynski wants monuments everywhere

Meanwhile, head of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has given an all-encompassing interview with the catholic ultra-conservative Radio Maryja in which he promotes the idea of commemorating the Smolensk catastrophe across Poland.

“I believe that it will happen,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in the interview, comparing future memorials of the Smolensk crash to those that were gradually erected after the death of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, known as the Solidarity priest and murdered by communist police in the 1980s.

“We should commemorate [the Smolensk tragedy] not just in Warsaw but throughout the whole country,” Kaczynski underlined.

Polish-Russian… relations?

The Law and Justice head condemned the government in their approach to discover the cause of the Smolensk crash of 10 April, adding criticism that the Polish side did not play a greater role in the joint Russian-Polish investigation.

“If this is a thaw [in relations between Poland and Russia] it means that the warmest relations where during the times of the [communist] Polish People’s Republic,” Kaczynski stated.

“I don’t know whether Donald Tusk would [admit to such aspirations], he would probably negate them. But the facts prove otherwise. What we have here is an enormous scandal,” the head of the opposition underlined.

Radio Maryja backs Law and Justice (and vice-versa)

Head of the catholic nationalist station, Redemptorist Father Tadeusz Rydzyk appealed to Jaroslaw Kaczynski for support, as he believes that the station is under threat from state authorities.


“I have no doubts that this group wants to destroy Radio Maryja because it doesn’t want any ‘safety valves’, is incredibly frightened of the truth and wants to tell people that white is black and black is white,” Kaczynski opined in the interview.

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President is enemy of church, says Kaczynski
06.10.2010 13:51

Jaroslaw Kaczynski protests outside Presidential Palace during cross conflict; photo PAP

Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has accused President Bronislaw Komorowski of being an enemy of the Roman Catholic church in Poland, in a row over alleged church property restitution bribes and malpractice.

“Why didn’t Bronislaw Komorowski reveal that he is the Church’s enemy during the presidential campaign?,” said Kaczynski, blaming the ruling Civic Platform, which Komorowski is associated with, for what he sees as the hounding the Catholic Church in Poland.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski has accused Bronislaw Komorowski of launching an anti-Church campaign, which he says started with the president ordering the removal of the Smolensk cross from outside of the Presidential Palace to a nearby church.

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The article is a little out-dated.
Now we already know that Kaczyński turned down President`s offer.


Kaczynski to snub President Komorowski ‘peace talks’
21.10.2010 00:01
Jaroslaw Kaczynski; photo - PAP
Jaroslaw Kaczynski will probably not accept an invitation by President Bronislaw Komorowski for talks, Thursday, on how to end the increasingly ugly conflict between the two leading political parties in Poland.

“I do not think that this will happen, given the situation yesterday,” said leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party in Parliament, Mariusz Blaszczak, referring to Tuesday’s murder of a political assistant at the Lodz party HQ by a 62 year-old taxi driver apparently with a grievance against Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that he was deeply saddened by the attack at the Law and Justice office but that the event should not be used politically, and it was time to reduce tension in the country which has been building since the Smolensk air crash which killed President Lech Kaczynski, Jaroslaw’s twin brother, in April.

PM Tusk told the TOK FM radio station - after Kaczynski said that the head of government had to take “moral responsibility” for the murder of the political worker and the stabbing of another - that he “did not expect a balanced opinion from Jaroslaw Kaczynski on this matter”.

“This is very worrying,” Tusk continued, the leader of the Civic Platform-led government. “Some politicians in Poland react differently to how they do in the rest of the world [to tragic events]”, by laying political and moral blame against opponents.

What happened in Lodz, Tusk added, “was tragic but not apocalyptic”.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski said at a press conference on Wednesday that the murder of one of his party workers was proof “that democracy in Poland is under serious threat”. The source of the threat was “the spreading of hatred against the opposition - against Law and Justice”.

Meanwhile, vice president of the Law and Justice party Adam Lipinski told the TVN 24 news station that workers at the Warsaw branch of the party recognised the alleged murderer in Lodz, Ryszard C. as he had previously been at the offices and got involved “in a brawl”.

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Muddle over Cameron’s letter to Jaroslaw Kaczynski
17.12.2010 07:52
Downing Street is perplexed over Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s claim that British PM David Cameron congratulated him for not accepting condolences from Vladimir Putin in the wake of the Smolensk air tragedy.

The muddle stems from an interview given by Kaczynski to the American version of Newsweek, published on 13 December.

Noting Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s embrace of Putin against the backdrop of the Smolensk plane wreckage directly after the crash in April, Jaroslaw Kaczynski remarked that the Russians had handled the affair “skilfully”.

He added that he had been at Smolensk airport the same day to indentify the remains of his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, and was offered the opportunity to accept condolences from the Russian prime minister, but declined.

In a letter sent to the Law and Justice leader “David Cameron [...] congratulated me on this decision,” Kaczynski told Newsweek.

The British PM’s letter to Kaczynski, sent three days after the tragedy (April 13) is available to readers on the official website of the Law and Justice party. However, no direct reference to Kaczynski’s rejection of the gesture by Vladimir Putin is made by Cameron.

Dear Jaroslaw

“Words cannot express the pain you must be feeling at the loss of your twin-brother, your sister-in-law, and so many friends and colleagues,” PM Cameron writes.

“Your dignity and courage, both first in Russia and in the public ceremonies in Warsaw, has been truly remarkable,” he adds.

Whether Cameron knew that Kaczynski had turned down the Russian offer of condolence at Smolensk is unclear.

Speaking to Poland’s Radio ZET, David Cameron’s press officer expressed bewilderment over Kaczynski’s claim.

“We are surprised by this. The Prime Minister met with Mr Kaczynski in June and offered him his condolences. Neither the catastrophe nor the later events were further discussed during the meeting,” said the Downing Street spokesman.

Kaczynski has since said that he was indeed referring to the above-mentioned paragraph, and consequently had “a firm basis” for his conjecture.

Cameron’s Conservative party and Kaczynski’s Law and Justice are currently allies in the European parliament, with both parties being members of the anti-federalist European Conservatives and Reformists group. (nh/pg)