Tusk: Kaczyński is intimidating his political counterparts, especially Ziobro, but I'm almost certain he won't dare to call early elections right now

20/09/2020

20:18

Tusk:

Kaczyński is intimidating his political counterparts, especially Ziobro, but I'm almost certain he won't dare to call early elections right now

Michał Olech

I have it somewhat fresh in my memory, it was quite some time ago, but it had an impact on my entire life, including my political life. I'm talking about the early elections in 2007. And I have the impression that Jarosław Kaczyński remembers that loss in the early elections and the loss of power well. Actually, completely unnecessarily, considering what he had in his hands, just as he has almost everything in his hands today. So risking that seems irrational. But as we've already said, at least I said, Kaczyński sometimes steps outside of such rationality, even if it's a slightly mafia-like rationality, but he often acts rationally. And indeed, he sometimes steps out of line, and then he experiences very serious trouble. Just as he never wanted to return to public debate with his opponents again, because he had that painful feeling of defeat in 2007, so I don't think he would want to repeat the political experiment that early elections would be. So, if you ask me for an assessment, I think Jarosław Kaczyński is intimidating his political counterparts, especially Mr. Ziobro, but I am almost certain that he will not dare to call early elections at this time. Therefore, it is ultimately a bit of a game of appearances and blackmail without substance – stated Donald Tusk in TVN24's "Fakty po faktach".

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