PM Tusk had heated talks with President Kaczynski this morning over a gambling corruption scandal which has rocked the government.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk left a meeting with President Lech Kaczynski ahead of schedule this morning, accusing the head of state of using a corruption scandal involving members of the ruling Civic Platform party as “the start of a presidential election campaign”.
‘What was unacceptable was that there was too much politics surrounding the whole thing. [The talks] were like some political duel. I think it was the beginning, an unacceptable beginning, of an election campaign,” Tusk told reports after the meeting at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw.
The prime minister was referring to the presidential elections scheduled for next year.
Prime Minister Tusk and heads of parliamentary parties met with President Kaczynski to discuss the lobbying scandal involving Sport Minister Miroslaw Dzeiwcki and Zbigniew Chlebowski, who has since resigned his post as head of Civic Platform’s parliamentary party.
The Anti Corruption Bureau accuses Chlebowski and Drzewiecki of lobbying for betting companies which want the government to drop proposals to raise gambling taxes, worth 469 million zloty to the state treasury. (ab/pg)