The head of the conservative and opposition Law and Justice party has stated that he has some discrediting information on Poland’s FM Radoslaw Sikorski, who used to be defence minister in the government led by Law and Justice.

In an interview with the Polish edition of Newsweek, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that he has damning evidence that would discredit Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

On the web-edition of Newsweek, Jaroslaw Kaczynski says that his brother Lech, the Polish president, had reservations about the Civic Platform appointment of Radoslaw Sikorski as Poland’s head of diplomacy in 2007.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski said the information that could discredit Sikorski “took place after he [Sikorski] became defence minister in the Law and Justice government.”

Investigative journalist Leszek Szymowski says the information may pertain to a situation that happened when Sikorski was Poland's Defense Minister in the Law and Justice government.

“According to my knowledge, it's about an incident that happened in 2005 in Washington, where Minister Sikorski accompanied President Lech Kaczynski in his political voyage to the United States,” Szymowski told Polish Radio’s External Service.

Radoslaw Sikorski left the post in February 2007 because of this “event”, “albeit with some delay,” Mr. Kaczynski said.

In his interview, the opposition leader answers questions enigmatically, as he does not want to give away state secrets, Mr. Kaczynski upholds. However, he believes that current prime minister Donald Tusk was told about the fact before Sikorski became Foreign Minister in Tusk’s government.

The statement comes before this year’s presidential race in Poland, which may see either Radoslaw Sikorski or Bronislaw Komorowski start from the Civic Platform list.

Radoslaw Sikorski retorted Kaczynski’s claims in a radio interview over the weekend, adding that he would like to be president so that the “discreditational politicking of the Kaczynski brothers may be erased from infuencing Polish matters”.

“I think we should be happy, that certain things in this universe do not change – when the presidential campaign comes to Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski loses weight, and the Kaczynski brothers dig up some dirt,” Sikorski said during the interview.

Asked if Sikorski wants to take Jaroslaw Kaczynski to court, he maintained “I could, because Kaczynski says he fired me, but I actually resigned for completely different reasons.” (jb/jn)

Source: PAP