The head of Law and Justice (PiS) party and former Prime Minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, told Polish Radio today that he hasn’t been in the media of late because he has been busy writing the party’s new program.

After a long break from the media spotlight Kaczynski has returned with strong criticisms of his replacement, current PM Donald Tusk, who, in his opinion, has been provoking tensions between the president - his twin brother Lech - and the government.

The president’s brother claims that Tusk has treated the government “with ceaseless aggression, twisting language, with every description of ineptitude available and, additionally, constitutional misinterpretations.”

J. Kaczynski scolded the Tusk administration for provoking the relationship between the president and the government. He claims that the way the PM acted is tragic for Poland.

“There is no doubt that, according to the constitution, Warsaw is the capital, the president is the head of the country and he has many rights,” J. Kaczynski added.

He refers to conflict over control of Poland‘s foreign policy, with each side claiming that the Constitution supports their position. Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that the constant attempts by the government to limit the influence of his brother is bad for the position and dignity of the head of state.

“It has put the president in such a situation that either he must resign from his competencies or hide in a corner and be attacked any moment or do nothing or else he will start a war and it will give society the idea that there is no constitution and the president is just an administrative functionary.”

The former PM stated that the president is the country’s most important administrator and leads foreign relations so “he has the right to be at meetings he has the right to be at.”

The head of PiS did not explain why he wrote the party program as ordered by the Cabinet of the President He did state that he had the help of two other party members he declined to name.

He told Polish Radio that he did not consult political experts because “we would have paid more. And then the program would have to be attuned to the specifications of the party.” (mmj)