Polish political parties at war over billboards
Warsaw, Poland June 23, 2006
The Polish media and the Polish government have been spending a lot of time looking at the prices that the main political parties paid for the billboards used to advertise their candidates during the last election campaign. What started as an attack on the opposition party Civic Platform by the ruling coalition party Law and Justice has turned out to the a major political fray that may end up hurting the Law and Justice Party as well as the President of Poland more than the Civic Platform which was originally attacked.
As Civic Platform leader, Donald Tusk said, the pit Bull ran loose and bit its master.
During the fall election campaign for president one Law and Justice Party member, Kurski, made some accusations against presidential candidate Donald Tusk. At that time Donald Tusk did not respond aggressively and many people think that a lack of aggressive response by Donald Tusk and the Civic Platform party were instrumental in their loss in position in the Polish government to the Law and Justice Party. But as Kurski has once again made accusations against Donald Tusk for the Donald Tusk said activities during the past presidential campaign, Donald Tusk has responded aggressively. And not only has he responded aggressively he has gone on the offensive.
Based on Kurski ' s accusations that Donald Tusk was given preferential financing of billboards by the Polish insurance company PZU, the Warsaw prosecutor's office opened an investigation into whether or not Donald Tusk had gotten illegal campaign financing.
Donald Tusk rejected the accusations and responded by showing that the Law and Justice Party had pay less for billboards than Donald Tusk had. He also showed that the report on which Kurski said he based his information did not contain the information that Kurski claimed was there.
To this aggressiveness immediately put the Law and Justice Party and the Kaczynski brothers on the defensive. Additionally Tusk has filed a lawsuit against Kurski asking for an apology and a sum of money to be donated to charity.
The chaotic accusations and counter accusations have left many of the people in Poland cold. Kurski actions are seen as nothing more than the opening shots for the fall elections in that they are just part of a continuing plan by members of the Law and Justice Party to discredit the Civic Platform in the eyes of the voters.
But it appears that the Law and Justice Party is hurting itself as much as it is hurting the Civic Platform and possibly hurting itself more.
What is notable in this exchange is that the Civic Platform responded quickly and responded aggressively which is starkly different from its response pattern during the fall elections of 2005. The response pattern for the fall 2005 elections was set by Civic Platform leader Jan Rokita who felt that any response should be done in a gentlemanly manner. In the spring of 2006 he publicly remarked that that was a mistake and that the party should have aggressively responded.
Now that Kurski has to defend a lawsuit and that the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, has to defend his spending record, it remains to be seen if the Law and Justice Party will go forward with further attacks such as this on the Civic Platform.
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