– They will announce help for flood victims and boast about their ideas on how they will distribute the money to people. What about us? Among their own people and about their own people – says one of the PiS politicians who knows the background of Jarosław Kaczyński's decision to TVN's “Fakty” reporter Arleta Zalewska. Another adds: “They are working at the grassroots for Poles, and we are at a party event. We couldn't allow that.” According to our unofficial information, it was crucial for PiS that Donald Tusk convened a special government meeting this Saturday. It was on this day that the long-announced Law and Justice congress was to be held.
Instead, PiS is to convene a “public hearing” on the flood in the Sejm on that day. It is to be a conference with the participation of politicians and experts who will discuss and point out the mistakes of those in power. The congress was postponed to October 12.
“An additional two weeks for a final decision”
The PiS Congress was supposed to be the most important political event of this year. Party leaders, most important politicians and activists were supposed to come to Przysucha. It's there Jarosław Kaczyński was to show a new, rejuvenated PiS, which would change the party from the inside. And it was there that he was to announce the formal absorption of the politicians of Sovereign Poland into PiS.
– Do you agree? – I am asking the politician of Sovereign Poland. Grimacing, he replies: – Thanks to the postponement of the congress, we still have two more weeks to make a final decision.
I ask further, this time to PiS politicians: Are these personnel changes and arrangements ready? -We are in the process – says one. The second one confirms: – There is still a fight over who will squeeze whom into the new management board, but if the congress was held on Saturday, the boss would push them. They would have to come to an agreement.
“It would be political suicide for us”
The media has already written about the new structure of the party, the creation of which is causing disputes. A Supervisory Board of the party, composed of old PiS politicians, and a new management board headed by Mariusz Błaszczakwhich is to include young, well-known and active politicians. Their presentation was to take place at the congress in Przysucha. – And now imagine, we are discussing the party, boasting and taking selfies with the new faces of PiS. And at the same time, Tusk is asking ministers about ideas for flood victims – a politician from the party authorities tells us. – It would be political suicide for us – he adds.
Donald Tuskby calling a special government meeting for Saturday, surprised Jarosław Kaczyński, perhaps giving him a lifeline and giving him time to sort out the situation in the party. On Saturday, ministers are to present further ideas for helping flood victims and submit possible amendments to already submitted projects.
Jarosław Kaczyński learned a lesson from demonstration organized under the slogan “StopPatoAuthority” on Saturday, September 14, in Warsaw. When Poles faced great waters, saving their homes, evacuating themselves and their families or shifting sandbags on the embankments, Jarosław Kaczyński focused on Donald Tusk at a political rally, not even mentioning what was happening in Lower Silesia. – Have you seen the photos from this demonstration that our MPs posted on social media? – one of the PiS politicians asks me. – It was a shame – he adds. It's about photos that make you laugh PiS MPs they took photos among their supporters. At the same time, the media showed the terrified faces of residents from flooded and flood-threatened areas.
Main photo source: Leszek Szymański/PAP