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Post by Jaga on Sept 13, 2007 9:54:30 GMT -7
As far as I know (correct me if I am wrong), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (ex-premier) and Radoslaw Sikorski(ex-defense minister) switched parties. They left Law and Justice and join Civil Platform of Donald Tusk. This is an interesting development since Marcinkiewicz was very popular as the premier but his original party is not popular at all, so who knows, maybe he would be a premier from Civil Platform now  |
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Post by Pawian on Sept 19, 2007 13:56:32 GMT -7
As far as I know (correct me if I am wrong), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (ex-premier) and Radoslaw Sikorski(ex-defense minister) switched parties. They left Law and Justice and join Civil Platform of Donald Tusk. This is an interesting development since Marcinkiewicz was very popular as the premier but his original party is not popular at all, so who knows, maybe he would be a premier from Civil Platform now Leszek Miller, the former leftist party leader and prime minister who signed European Union access treaty is going to be a candidate on Samoobrona list. What a shame..... He was removed from the leftist party list of candidates before. |
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Post by Jaga on Sept 20, 2007 13:13:43 GMT -7
I guess, in a very strange way the very right oriented libertarian party "Unia Polityki realnej" (Union of the Real Politics) was joined by Polish Family Party.
This is so strange, since both parties represent so different options!
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Post by pieter on Sept 20, 2007 13:29:51 GMT -7
Jaga/Pawian, The first posting I regard as positive, the second as strange, and the first posting not unusual. Politicians do not suprise me anymore, Leftist former social-democrats can turn into Rightwing Populists (Pim Fortuyn), and people can stwitch from party and former dissidents can turn into defenders of Communists (in the case of Adam Michnik). Wojtek wrote in an e-mail about Michnik of Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Michnik, did a great job in communism era for Polish freedom and the construction of civil society. However the recent several years of his public activity is not that appreciated, he has undergone a strange and difficult to understand change. It is really very hard to explain that properly without a long thoroughful preambule on the background of political ife in Poland since some 20 years. To make a long story short, the beginning of a change in his attitude was when he called the two leaders of communists (Wojciech Jaruzelski and Czeslaw Kiszczak) men of honour, even though they are responsible for the deaths of innocent people during martial war times and before that period too. But even worse than that - he attacked every one who thought ( and wrote) that it is not quite so, and attacked in a nasty manner. There were other strange things, too. Nonetheless we have to remember that his pre-1989 virtues for the fight against totalitarianism of the state are enormous. Pieter |
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