An MEP associated with Law and Justice has been expelled from the party’s delegation inside the European Parliament after he criticised the leadership of Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
The motion to expel Marek Migalski was filed by the Law and Justice MEPs Ryszard Legutko and Tomasz Poreba after he wrote an open letter to party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski blaming him for the party
’s poor opinion poll ratings. He also warned that the party’s current strategy of aggressively haranguing opponents will only lead to failure in the upcoming local elections in the autumn as well as the general elections in 2011.
In the motion to expel Migalski, MEPs
Legutko and Poreba wrote: “Migalski’s behaviour clearly shows that his priority is his own career, not the party’s wellbeing. The Law and Justice politicians should not care only about their own interests and popularity, to the party’s detriment.”
Migalski’s comments opened up two camps within the Law and Justice party: one loyal to Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who back his aggressive style, and opponents who think that the party needs to move more towards the middle ground if it ever wants to be in government again.
In his open letter to Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Migalski wrote that the party leader is the party
’s greatest asset, but also its greatest burden. “Without you we won’t survive, [yet] we won’t win with you,” he wrote on his blog.
“Migalski behaves again like a political commentator, not a politician,” an unnamed Law and Justice party member told the PAP news agency. (mg/pg)
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