Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Master Plotter
Poland's Prime Minister Understands Financial Threats Control Polish Politicians
Warsaw, Poland 12 July, 2007 Poland's Prime Minister understands that members of the Polish Parliament are prisoners of their own personal finances. And their personal financial situations will dictate their loyalties. So he is free to rule as he wishes without fear of his Government collapsing.
One of the fears voiced by minor parties in Poland since they formed the coalition has been that Kaczynski has been trying to destroy them by taking control of their members. And that appears to be what is happening now.
The current so called Government crisis was planned and engineered by Kaczynski. He set in motion a complex trap for Lepper. http://www.dziennik.pl/Default.aspx?TabId=95&BackToCategory=3&ShowArticleId=52255">
He knew what would happen when Lepper got caught. He planned it. There is no crisis. Things are just as he wants them to be.
He actually expected that he would catch Lepper in his trap. But even though Lepper was apparently warned that he was about to get caught, Kaczynski had enough to have an excuse to fire Lepper so he could split Lepper's party.
Leaving the coalition is simply not an option for most of the people in Lepper's party. Kaczynski knew that better than Lepper when he laid his trap for Lepper.
When Lepper threatened to leave the coalition, he was surprised by the barrage of phone calls and SMS messages from Samoobrona members in Warsaw and the countryside telling him to leave the party in the coalition.
They do not want to lose the jobs that they have because they are members of the coalition. They have big loans for cars, houses, land and more. Leaving the coalition would cost them their coalition related jobs and leave them in financial trouble.
In short order after the "crisis" was proclaimed by the press, a list of Samoobrona and LPR party members and their loans was posted on the internet with commentary that the coalition would survive because the people had loans to pay. See in Polish http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,71196,wid,9015794,wiadomosc.html Beda wczesniejsze wybory parlamentarne?
Samoobrona started to split immediately. Ryszard Czanecki was the first to tell Lepper that Samoobrona should stay in the coalition. And he was soon joined by six others.
Lepper quickly changed his position and said that he would keep Samoobrona in the coalition conditioned on having the evidence against him presented by Friday. But that is only a delaying action since getting the evidence in such a short time is highly unlikely.
Lepper is said to be surprised that the people are not totally loyal to him. This is from a man who has used promissory notes against his party members to enforce discipline!
The whole affair was well planned by Kaczynski.
Though he is ridiculed by the western press, analysts in Poland recognize his brilliance as a politician.
"As Marcin Sobczyk of Interfax Central Europe says the prime minister’s plan to get rid of Lepper while keeping Self-defense party deputies in the coalition has worked successfully.
‘There are reports that Lepper was shocked to see that his party was reluctant to leave the coalition, he was shocked to see that his own deputies were in fact against him, the leader, the founder of his own party. They have already deserted him.
Jacek Kucharczyk of the Institute of Public Affairs thinks that the timing of Lepper’s dismissal was carefully planned. "
It was planned in such a way to make it very difficult for the opposition to act in proportion to what has happened and to wage a counterattack.
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http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/gb/dokument.aspx?iid=55316 What Next?
Lepper is hurt and Kaczynski is keeping the pressure on. Making such statements as the coalition is "hanging by a hair" keeps Samoobrona party members looking at their monthly payments.
Kaczynski knows that money talks and bullshit walks.
And he is helping Lepper walk by putting the pressure on the pocketbooks of Lepper's party members. They know that their loyalties to Kaczynski's Government will ensure that they can pay their loans.
They belong to Kaczynski and are now part of his voting machine.
In short, Kaczynski is brilliantly using his understanding of personal finances to create a rubber stamp coalition.
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