Law and Justice wants to change Poland for the better, to improve the living conditions of Poles, while Civic Platform is changing its name to propaganda-wise boost its polling numbers. We’re about Poland; they’re about themselves, wrote today on social media the leader of Law and Justice, Jarosław Kaczyński. “Civic Platform’s slogan for today: carry out the banner…,” added Tomasz Sakiewicz.
Since Friday, a two-day Law and Justice convention under the slogan “Thinking Poland” has been taking place in Katowice. It features around 130 discussion panels on the most important political, social, and economic issues. Today at 12:00 p.m., the “unification” convention of Civic Platform, Polish Initiative, and Nowoczesna began—dubbed by commentators the “consumption of side dishes” (i.e., gobbling up smaller partners). The new formation is to present its name and logo.
Everything indicates that the politicians will want to unite under the banner of the Civic Coalition—a name that has been in use for years as the parliamentary caucus and as the name of the electoral committee in the 2019 and 2023 parliamentary elections. It is also likely that the new logo will be a white-and-red heart, which has become the hallmark of Civic Coalition MPs.
Kaczyński: We about Poland, they about themselves
“Law and Justice wants to change Poland for the better, to improve the living conditions of Poles, while Civic Platform is changing its name to propaganda-wise boost its polling numbers. We’re about Poland; they’re about themselves. The second day of debates on the future program of Law and Justice is starting. When we say something, we do it. Nothing comes of their promises,” assessed PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński in a social-media post.
“At high noon, Civic Platform began its Halloween. They’ll powder things over and conjure, although the masks fell long ago, and underneath are still the same faces of those who have deceived more than once,” stated PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek.
Tomasz Sakiewicz, editor-in-chief of “Gazeta Polska” and president of TV Republika, alluded to events from 35 years ago.
“Civic Platform’s slogan for today: carry out the banner…,” he wrote on social media.
“Carry out the party standard” are the words that symbolically ended the existence of the Polish United Workers’ Party. They were spoken during the last, 11th Congress of the PUWP, on January 29, 1990, by the party’s First Secretary, Mieczysław F. Rakowski.