Leader of the opposition, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says that Prime Minister Donald Tusk must deliver on pre-election promises or withdraw from political life.
“Now is the time for settling accounts with the election resolutions and Donald Tusk will either find a way to deliver on his pre-election promises or, if he is a man of honour, he will step down and leave politics... Forever”, Law and Justice (PiS) chairman and former PM Jarosław Kaczyński told a press conference Thursday.
Kaczyński was commenting on the allegations by the daily Gazeta Wyborcza that Law and Justice used the Solidarity trade union to attack the ruling Civic Platform (PO).
On Wednesday, the daily wrote that Solidarity was getting ready for a general protest demanding pay rises across the entire public sector.
“It’s a political move. When PiS was in power, Solidarity was quiet”, a PO spokesman commented the newspaper report.
At the press conference Jarosław Kaczyński denied that Solidarity had ever been an instrument in the hands of PiS.
“These allegations are false. We have good relations with Solidarity, but we haven’t got the ambitions or the possibilities to have Solidarity as our instrument”, Kaczyński said and added that the trade union’s actions were the result of PO’s failure to deliver on its pre-election promises.
“Citizens have the right to hold rulers accountable for their pre-election promises. The current premier said that salaries would go up quickly, that teachers and doctors would earn well. [...] There is no rationale for a total war between PO and PiS”, said PiS chairman and ensured that his party strived for a good co-operation and was interested in forming “local alliances” with PO.
Workers in many different areas of the public sector, including medical staff, teachers, customs officials, law enforcement and more have threatened or are already striking for better pay and conditions. (mj) (photo: Jakub Szymczuk)