Schetyna to Opposition: 'Let's Not Argue or Label Each Other, PiS is the Adversary Today'

20/07/2019

14:46

Michał Olech

For politeness' sake, I won't debate with a partner in the European Coalition and for many years in local government, still in local government, and for 8 years in government. I understand that the PSL wants to start the election campaign in this way, to distance themselves from other opposition parties. This is not a good path. Even if we are not together, we are going in parallel, separately, but we are going for an important and shared cause. We are fighting for democracy, the rule of law, the Polish countryside, and a substantive role in Europe. For the most important things. These will be such elections. So I am speaking about this and asking my colleagues, friends from opposition parties and circles, not to argue or quarrel, not to label each other, because it is unnecessary. Today, the adversary is PiS and a state that is politicized, that is losing great opportunities that our participation in the EU brings, that is not meeting the most important challenges, and today we say: one can not be in one coalition, but one must work alongside each other, together to create a coalition after the elections, after winning the elections, and I will encourage everyone to do so. We, from the Civic Platform, the Civic Coalition, will never take up the challenge of distancing ourselves or attacking other opposition groupings – stated Grzegorz Schetyna at a briefing in Tarnów, when asked about the words of Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz that PO is the left.

Michał Olech