Poland
Overview of Poland's War On The Banks
Warsaw, Poland March 17, 2006 - The media and the world are focused on the Polish Government's current war on the National Bank of Poland and the continuing attempts to finalize a merger between the Italian bank and the Polish bank. The current focus by the Polish government on the banking sector may be, however, merely a battle in a larger war that the ruling Polish Government party Law and Justice is waging.
The Law and Justice Party is actually attacking anyone or any institution that stands in its way of consolidating total control of Polish politics and the Polish economy. They have been attacking individuals and institutions.
By using multiple threats of calling for new elections, Law and Justice Party was able to get the signatures of two minority parties, Samoobrona and the League of Polish Families, on a document that they called the Stabilization Pact. These two minority parties signed the Stabilization Pact to avoid new elections because put it appeared at that time that there was some question as to whether they would be returned to parliament when the final votes were counted.
But signing the stabilization pact seems to have been disastrous for these two parties. Public opinion polls show that were elections held now it is quite certain that neither of these two parties would have any representation in the Polish Parliament. They have effectively been removed from the Polish central government power scheme.
There'll be new elections in the fall for local representatives. Some commentators believe that the war on the banks is just part of Law and Justice campaign for the local fall elections.
Political polls show that some 40 percent of the Polish people feel that the Law and Justice Party is correct in its attack on the National Bank of Poland and its president Leszek Balcerowicz. Polls also show a continued erosion of support for Samoobrona and the League of Polish Families.
The Leader of the Law and Justice Party Jaroslaw Kaczynski,, having Samoobrona and the League of Polish families under control, it is attacking the major opposition party Civic Platform through a campaign that emphasizes the conspiracy of an uklad a word that he uses to describe an elusive network of people and companies that are working against Poland. He says that this uklad will come to its end in new elections when his political party takes control of the government.
Kaczynski has also been lumping the post Communist Party S L D. and Civic Platform into some form of conspiratorial network with communism as its basis.
Kaczynski and his party have been using the Roman Catholic Church in Poland to spread their messageto its Roman Catholic base. It would appear that since the Roman Catholic Church has done nothing to stop the use of the primary Roman Catholic radio station, Radio Maria, in this political campaign, that the Roman Catholic Church is supporting Kaczynski's efforts.
By creating a tie between the post Communist and the Liberal Civic Platform, attacking the National Bank of Poland and its President Leszek Balcerowicz, attacking foreign capital, and putting this altogether in one package that has a spin favorable to the Law and Justice Party and brought broadcasting this party line on the Catholic radio station will probably give many Polish people the idea that the Roman Catholic Church is fully supporting the Law and Justice Party's effort.
Come the time of the local elections a good portion of the Polish population that actually goes to the election polls to vote will have been repeatedly given the message by the Catholic Church that the Law and Justice Party in Poland is the only party that is supporting the Polish people.
It appears that Kaczynski will win the battle of the banks with these people regardless of the ultimate economic solution to the bank battle. If he prevents the merger and forms a major Polish financial network that he controls, he will look good to Polish people. If he loses the battle based on economic terms, he will be able to present himself as the only person protecting the interest of the Polish people.
One should not sell to Kaczynski short. He a smart, sly, devious and determined. What you see and what you hear from Kaczynski is not what you get.
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