Schmidt: I Was Harassed in the Party and Parliamentary Club by the Current Authorities

11/05/2018

08:24

Schmidt:

I Was Harassed in the Party and Parliamentary Club by the Current Authorities

Michał Olech

Schmidt: I Was Harassed in the Party and Parliamentary Club by the Current Authorities - Of course, there is life after Nowoczesna. The proof is that I am here. There is a statement because every word is thought through there, in every way, but like with every difficult, tough decision, everything accumulates and at a certain point there is a turning point, when you say: enough. The impulse was certainly the departure of my colleague Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus. Nowoczesna has become a project that is not what I created three years ago, starting from Torwar, not with such values. It's a project in which I simply didn't want to participate. I have such a self-preservation instinct, just like in business. If you don't want to continue a project, to cooperate with certain people, you simply have the option to leave, and I still believe that in politics I can work with people I want to work with - stated Joanna Schmidt in an interview with Robert Mazurek on RMF FM. She added:

"For Joanna [Scheuring-Wielgus], it was certainly the last straw [the ban on speaking], a turning point. But I repeat: Joanna had been fighting for months to sort out certain matters, conflicts, misunderstandings in Nowoczesna. The same applies to me. To put it in one sentence: I believe I was harassed in the party and club by the current authorities. Katarzyna Lubnauer is the party leader, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz is now the head of the club, and this is certainly always the responsibility of the leader. This has been going on for a very long time. I believe that as an independent MP, on the outside, with my energy, ideas, and activity, which I proved in the first period of my mandate, I can act with the majority for the benefit of the broadly understood opposition."

Michał Olech