Poles would like to see Justice Minister Andrzej Czuma step down from office, indicate poll results published by Rzeczpospolita.
Press reviewed by Danuta Isler
“When will Minister Czuma resign?” is the headline from the front page of Rzeczpospolita daily. Seventy-one percent of Poles hold the opinion that PM Donald Tusk should dismiss Justice Minister Andrzej Czuma while 21 percent claim that the minister should keep his post – writes the newspaper publishing results of an opinion poll by GFK Polonia that it commissioned. The daily also quotes lawyers who question the qualifications of Poland’s attorney general and stress that a person charged for failure to pay outstanding debts cannot hold such an important post. The poll comes after Andrzej Czuma has rejected allegations by a Polish weekly that he has unpaid debts in America, where he had lived for 20 years. Speaking at a press conference in Warsaw yesterday, Czuma, a former activist of the anti-communist opposition, said there was no talk about his resignation during a meeting with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
"Poles give us our jobs back!" - is the title of a story published in Gazeta Wyborcza about protests in the British town, Isle of Grain, located 80 km from London. A hundred trade unionists and unemployed protested there against workers from the Polish cities of Opole and Katowice taking over their jobs. "You are stealing our jobs" the workers are quoted as saying in the paper with the story accompanied by a photograph from the rally presenting workers with banners and two hostesses from a local tabloid among them. Similar protests against employing foreigners have been taking place in Great Britain for several weeks now but this is the first time that they were directed specifically against Polish immigrants. About a hundred Poles work at the local power plant. According to the latest data unemployment figures in Great Britain stand at 6,3% which is the highest level in 12 years.
Poland's government has done a lot to save the life of Piotr Stanczak - the Polish citizen who had been held captive and then beheaded in Pakistan on Saturday - writes Dziennik in its front page article under the headline "The government has reached the Taliban". According to the daily, the group of Polish negotiators, including representatives of the government and the president's office managed to establish contact with the kidnappers. Negotiations collapsed, however, because the Pakistani government refused to cooperate. Contact with the Taliban has been maintained until today but the kidnappers put forward new demands - this time they demand the withdrawal of Polish forces from Afghanistan - writes the daily.
Both Polish tabloids devote their front pages to the coverage of an incident involving former MP Jan Rokita in Munich. “Rokita went berserk” splashes the headline Super Express referring to reports that the 50-year-old former member of the center-right Civic Platform got into a nasty argument with a flight attendant onboard a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Krakow. When she reportedly refused to let his wife place her coat somewhere else Rokita got upset, started screaming and refused to leave the plane. “Rokita handcuffed on the plane” writes Fakt presenting the story in comic book format.