Across the Oder River, they have found another object of hatred. After party leader Jarosław Kaczyński and President Karol Nawrocki, the “collection” has now been joined by Prof. Przemysław Czarnek, nominated on Saturday by Law and Justice (PiS) as its candidate for prime minister. The decision by the PiS leader has provoked fury in Germany. Concerned about the political future of their protégé, Donald Tusk, “Poland’s friends” accuse Czarnek of “misogyny,” “homophobia,” and “nationalism.” For Germans, taking care of Poland’s interests is the politician’s main sin.
“He regularly makes misogynistic and homophobic statements and supports the conspiracy narrative that Donald Tusk’s liberal-conservative government is controlled by Germany,”
the influential portal Tagesschaunotes with alarm.
Let us set aside the bizarre remark about the “conservative” government of Germany’s protégé and focus on the “arguments” that are meant to demonstrate Przemysław Czarnek’s alleged anti-German attitude and “provincial backwardness.”
“In his more than hour-long speech at the party conference, he criticized, among other things, Green Party laws imposed by the European Union: ‘We have our own coal mix because we have our natural resources. Keep your hands off them. We have our coal, our coal,’”
Tagesschau reports.
The outlet then goes on to describe as anti-German the PiS candidate’s obvious statement that: “We know that Germany is our neighbor. We know that trade with Germany is important. We know that Germany is an important economic partner. But partners, we want to be partners, not servants, not slaves.”
Let us emphasize, for “Poland’s friends” from across the Oder, speaking about a partnership-based cooperation and rejecting subordination to Berlin is proof of anti-German sentiment. As we can see, Germans apparently believe that reducing Poles to the role of their servants, not to say slaves, is the only acceptable model of relations between our states and nations.
That this is indeed the case is suggested by the final paragraph of the article published on the German portal, which angrily notes that “Czarnek promoted the motto of President Karol Nawrocki: ‘Poland first, Poles first.’ Observers suspect that PiS wants to win over voters of the right-wing and far-right Confederation party during the election campaign thanks to this nomination.”
Is there howling across the Oder? Excellent! – as internet users usually conclude.