Bronislaw Komorowski’s election campaign team have appealed to a court to rule on Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s claim that he wants to privatise Poland’s health service.  

Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, spokeswoman for Komorowski’s electoral committee, told journalists that a court in Warsaw is to review the appeal on Tuesday afternoon.

Civic Platform parliamentarian Joanna Mucha announced that the appeal was filed in the courts before 6pm, Monday.

“We are demanding that Jaroslaw Kaczynski withdraw his statement concerning the privatisation of the healthcare system, and Bronislaw Komorowski’s stance towards this privatisation,” the politician said.

The move comes after Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s political rally in Lublin on June 9, where he spoke on the privatisation of the healthcare system. According to the Law and Justice presidential hopeful, his opponent Bronislaw Komorowski wants to put the health service into private hands.

“The main thing is to keep the healthcare system public, this is the main difference [between us],” Kaczynski announced in Lublin, adding that “the ballot cast on June 20 is either for [its privatisation], or [against] it.”

Jaroslaw Kaczynski also said that “the issue concerning a privatised healthcare system, as my main political opponent wants, or a public one, is about whether it should be dependent on [people’s wealth] or whether it should be for everyone.”

Joanna Mucha told journalists that Komorowski’s electoral committee wants a public apology to be voiced by Kaczynski on all the main television channels, as well as a statement to be circulated by Poland’s chief wire service, the Polish Press Agency.

Law and Justice representatives underline that their statements concerning the healthcare system come from the Civic Platform manifesto from 2007, which is available on the party’s website. (jb)

Source: TVP Info

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