Opposition peddling 'hate' over national sovereignty row
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
14.12.2011 08:15
A senior MP from the ruling Civic Platform has said opposition criticism that the government is giving up national sovereignty to Brussels is “gibberish” and “full of hate”.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski leads martial law march, Tuesday: photo - PAP/Andrzej Hrechorowicz
MP Stefan Niesiolowski said this morning that, “claiming Polish independence is threatened is utter nonsense”.
The former deputy speaker of parliament said leader of the eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski (pictured) is talking “gibberish” and accused him of peddling “hate” in his attacks on the Polish government's support for a more integrated approach to fighting the finance crisis in the eurozone.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said that Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski demonstrated “treason to the Polish nation” when he made a controversial speech in Berlin a fortnight ago, during which the minister called for greater EU integration under the leadership of Germany.
“This is the language of people sick with hate and full of grudges,” Stefan Niesiolowski told money.pl.
“These mean comments testify to the fact that Kaczynski and the whole of Law and Justice are ripe to see a psychoanalyst,” he added.
During a speech marking the 30th anniversary of the declaration of martial law on Tuesday, led by Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski declared that "if it wasn't for this sick state [run by Civic Platform] we would be driving forwards like China.
"Wake up Poland," he added.
Niesiolowski claims that leading the march on the 30th anniversary of the declaration of martial law on 13 December 1981 was “a shameful attempt to appropriate that date.”
The MP said that it was a bid “to compare Foreign Minister Sikorski with [former communist leader] Jaruzelski and martial law.
“This is an immoral action, because it is the exploitation of the victims of a tragedy... for their own [PiS's] political gains.”
Niesiolowski, who was himself imprisoned thirty years ago by the communists, suggested that this “may result from a complex on Kaczynski's behalf, because he was not interned and did little during martial law – as far as I know he was not that active.” (pg/nh)