“I’ve heard that a New Left bill aimed at making a potential Polexit more difficult is to be submitted to the Sejm. Włodzimierz Czarzasty, my dear friend, just make sure you equip it with a padded jacket and a scarf,” wrote Szymon Hołownia, former Speaker of the Sejm, on social media.
President Karol Nawrocki decided to veto the law implementing the EU SAFE defense loan program. In the justification of the decision, it was pointed out, among other things, that there is a risk of undermining state sovereignty and transferring some security-related competences to European Union institutions. SAFE is an EU defense loan program under which Poland would borrow approximately €44 billion. Following the veto by President Karol Nawrocki regarding the EU SAFE loan, the ruling camp unleashed a massive wave of criticism and attacks against the head of state.
Since then, the government camp, led by Donald Tusk, has been desperately pushing a narrative that President Nawrocki and the Polish opposition are allegedly seeking to take Poland out of the European Union – the so-called Polexit.
New Left Announces “Protection” Against Polexit
A few days ago, during a press conference, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, Speaker of the Sejm, was asked about a potential “Polexit” scenario. The politician stated that Poland must be “secured within the EU”.
“New Left is thinking very seriously about whether the fact that a parliamentary majority decides on this is a sufficient safeguard to keep Poland in the European Union. I believe we are getting closer to a draft law that will try to change this situation,” he said.
Hołownia Hits Back at Czarzasty
Szymon Hołownia, Czarzasty’s predecessor as Speaker of the Sejm and leader of the Polska 2050 Party, responded to these reports on social media.
“I’ve heard that a New Left bill aimed at making a potential Polexit more difficult is to be submitted to the Sejm. Włodzimierz Czarzasty, my dear friend, just make sure you equip it with a padded jacket and a scarf,” he wrote, addressing Czarzasty.
He recalled that a bill submitted by him and other politicians from the Polska 2050 Party (Polska 2050) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL) has been “cooling in the little freezer of the chairman of the Sejm’s Foreign Affairs Committee” for a year. “And what? Nothing,” Hołownia added.
“Since we were asked in a referendum whether we wanted to join the European Union, we also want to be asked in a referendum for our opinion when some political lunatics come up with the idea of leaving it (especially now). And to show them that in our place in the world – you cannot be ‘in between’. If you are not in the West, then you are in the East,” he added.