MEP Marek Migalski from the opposition Law and Justice has written an open letter to leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, blaming him for the party’s poor opinion poll ratings.
“To a great extent, it is your fault,” Migalski writes to Kaczynski on his blog, adding that the party’s current strategy will only lead to failure in the upcoming local elections in the autumn as well as the general elections in 2011.
Mariusz Blaszczak, head of Law and Justice’s parliamentary party, bit back by saying that Marek Migalski has gone back to political commentary, referring to the MEP’s past as a political columnist in the Polish press.
The open letter, which was published on Migalski’s blog on Sunday, is a “dramatic attempt at undertaking a debate so as to avoid defeat in both [upcoming] elections.”
The blog post underlines that if Law and Justice fails to win forthcoming elections it will be the fifth and sixth time respectively that the opposition party has failed to beat rival Civic Platform’s string of election victories.
MEP Marek Migalski argues that Poland “does not deserve to be run by a such shoddy government as the present one [lead by Civic Platform],” adding a string of adjectives describing Prime Minister Donald Tusk as being “weak, incompetent, sluggish, inert, stagnant and indolent.”
Jaroslaw Kaczynski: Law and Justice's "greatest asset, but also its greatest burden" according to MEP Marek Migalski.
In his open letter, Marek Migalski points out that Jaroslaw Kaczynski is the party’s greatest asset, but also its greatest burden. “Without you we won’t survive, [yet] we won’t win with you,” the MEP writes, adding that if Kaczynski were to maintain the composure seen by the Polish electorate in the recent presidential ballot, it would “guarantee victory in the next parliamentary elections.”
And yet, the sour-tongued MEP believes that Law and Justice’s position in the polls has remained at the same level since its general election defeat in 2007. “The largest opposition party should have a higher rating […] among Poles, but unfortunately that is not the case,” Migalski writes.
Marek Migalski also criticises the party’s activity dealing with the Smolensk tragedy on 10 April, when President Lech Kaczynski died along with 95 others on a plane flying them to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, which saw 20,000 Polish officers murdered by the Soviet NVKD.
The MEP also slams the party’s role in the commotion over the Smolensk memorial cross. “If the issue of the catastrophe and cross were better handled [by the party] and augmented by other political arguments over the present government’s tax hikes, Russian gas deals and the misery of further reforms, we would not be pleased that we are ‘not falling in public opinion’, but would be jubilant with a lead in the polls,” Migalski writes.
The open letter, which spans five pages of text, also blasts the party’s inability to keep worthy politicians in its ranks, mentioning such former Law and Justice politicians as Radoslaw Sikorski, currently head of diplomacy in the Civic Platform government, and Marek Jurek, who left the party to set up his own faction further to the right in the political spectrum.
Marek Migalski is a Member of the European Parliament chosen from the Law and Justice electoral list in 2009; however he is not a member of the party. (jb)
Source: PAP/TVN24
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