““This is a mockery of Poles and a shame for us that we allow this person to come to Poland and say such things here,” said Jacek Sasin, a PiS MP and former head of MAP, commenting to Polsat News on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Poland. “He came and acted as if the governor came to the colony and the local political leaders just bowed to him,” he said.

Currently, public opinion in Poland is abuzz with the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and statements about Germany’s compensation to Poland for World War II crimes. In an interview with Polsat News, PiS MP and former deputy prime minister Jacek Sasin gave a negative assessment of the chancellor’s statements and the words and behavior of the Polish head of government, Donald Tusk.

I feel offended by Chancellor Scholz’s statement

— the politician said when asked about the announcement of compensation for surviving victims of World War II. The youngest person born during the German occupation, as former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pointed out on Platform X, will turn 80 this year.

Chancellor Scholz is very consistent in this regard. Let me remind you that not long ago he wrote on Twitter about German victims of World War II

– Sasin emphasized.

“The Prime Minister humbled himself before him.”

This, he said, meant Scholz may not have seen the need for compensation, “because how can victims pay their victims?”

It is unimaginable if history is relativized in such a way.

– said the parliamentarian.

This is a mockery of the Polish people and a shame for us that we allow this person to come to Poland and say such things here.

– added.

And the Prime Minister of the Polish government, instead of protesting, groveled before him and paid homage to him and essentially gave Poland to him as a territory, saying that he was counting on Germany to guarantee Poland’s security.

– said Sasin.

Governor and Cacique

Prime Minister Tusk is not complaining [o reparacje – przyp. red.]preferring to bow before Olaf Scholz, who, in my impression today, came and behaved like a governor coming to a colony, and the local political leaders simply bowed to him.

– said Jacek Sasin.

When asked about PiS’s policy towards Germany and the fact that the previous government failed to convince its western neighbor to atone for its World War II crimes, the Polsat News guest stated that what the previous government did was a “first step” that “had to be done.”

Nobody did it before us, nobody predicted it. We calculated this loss

– said the parliamentarian.

Justice Fund

The former state assets minister was also asked about yesterday’s report by “Gazeta Wyborcza” about a letter that PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński allegedly sent in 2019 to the then justice minister, leader of Poland’s (then Solidarna) Ruler, Zbigniew Ziobro. The news was about the Justice Fund.

Jacek Sasin admitted that such information was “also circulating” in right-wing circles.

The media said that the money from the Justice Fund was being spent in a questionable way, and this was discussed in our community. And Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński decided to react to this, asking Minister Ziobro, as the fund manager, to explain this issue to him.

– he says.

The parliamentarian added that according to his information, the letter was followed by “an explanation from Minister Ziobro”, and the PiS president accepted the explanation.

The situation in Lesser Poland

When asked about the situation in Lesser Poland Voivodeship and PiS council members blocking the election of Łukasz Kmita as marshal, Sasin said that such people should not be on the Law and Justice list.

At the moment, voting against Kmita’s candidacy as marshal is, in fact, supporting all the activities that seek to split PiS, destroy the opposition and introduce a one-party system in which one man, Donald Tusk, will decide everything.

– he says.

He added that new elections were certainly not a good solution.

But of course this is a better solution than having someone betrayed, the voters betrayed, because they decided that PiS is the party that should continue its mission and govern the province. I hope that today, or maybe tomorrow, efficiency will happen and a PiS marshal will be elected.

– he says.

Tonight, three members of the regional council: Marshal Witold Kozłowski, Deputy Marshal Józef Gawron and councilor Piotr Ćwik were suspended as members of PiS. This information was confirmed to journalists by the deputy chairman of the PiS parliamentary club, Ryszard Terlecki, who took part in the regional council discussions.

aja/Polsat News, PAP