Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Michał Kołodziejczak, calls for a boycott of Wednesday’s protest. His words received wide coverage on the Internet.
A few days ago, a recording appeared on Agrounia’s Facebook profile in which the current deputy minister of agriculture, Michał Kołodziejczak, calls for a boycott of the farmers’ protest in Warsaw scheduled for March 6. All thanks to the union that organizes it. We are talking about the Solidarity Independent Farmers’ Trade Union.
Kołodziejczak calls for a boycott
– No one from Agrounia or those who wish well for Polish agriculture will take part in such a protest, and I certainly shouldn’t. No self-respecting Polish farmer should take part in such protests, says Kołodziejczak.
The minister points to the incompetence in agricultural matters shown by the previous government, which, as Kołodziejczak argues, came to power with agricultural slogans on its lips and led to a deep collapse in Polish agriculture.
It will be a political protest, argues Kołodziejczak. – I see Law and Justice politicians saying that they need to go to this protest to throw it out to those who have now taken power, and this is taking away a certain kind of seriousness from all of us, from the agricultural community and from those who began to exercise power, which should accompany the most important decisions.
Kołodziejczak: what is happening is society rebelling against the current government
In his statement, the minister puts forward the thesis that everything that is happening in Poland now is a rebellion of society against the current government.
It’s about showing the whole world that in Poland, the new authorities have a problem with protests. After all, it won’t help farmers or the opposition, nor will it help those who have to make difficult decisions, he says.
The politician points to, among others, the people responsible for this state of affairs: trade unionists from NSZZ RI Solidarność, headed by Tomasz Obszański.
– I ask: where was Solidarity for 8 years to be able to put the current opposition and then the decision-makers in this matter on their feet? Well, guys? Where were you then? – he asks. – I can answer you. Many of you were in the pocket of that government and you were all comfortable enough not to have to raise your voice. And today, with PiS being torn away from the trough at which they have been sitting for a long time, all the shouting is starting to get louder – he sums up.
The minister also emphasizes that neither Donald Tusk nor Czesław Siekierski wanted to distract farmers from the protests. However, he has a different opinion on this matter.
Unlike the Prime Minister and Minister Siekierski, I say it directly, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in many years we have a government that says that the problems of agriculture are important and that we need to sit down and talk. The Prime Minister is not playing such cheap games with anyone as Prime Minister Morawiecki did, he is saying it directly: you want tough decisions – I cannot make them myself, I have to call and contact our allies in Washington, with people in Brussels, in the European Union, with Ukrainian politicians. You need to talk to them, warn them, so as not to surprise anyone. And that’s OK. And that’s fine, but I have the impression that sometimes we, Polish farmers, would rather be sweetly lied to and deceived, he says.
The minister also argues that the government is doing everything to solve the problem.
– The debate has started and the solutions to the problems have begun. Everyone, even at the protests, says that these problems cannot be solved ad hoc right away, but the protests are still going on. Law and Justice is deliberately stirring up the atmosphere to overheat the public, and they are surprised to see that these protests continue while the problems are being solved. This would be the goal of Law and Justice, to divide the Polish countryside with the Polish city, Polish farmers with people from other industries – he argues. – Let’s not go crazy today, to make a protest for, to make constant protests for the sake of constant protesting. when I hear that the protests are being organized from the bottom up, I am very happy, but when I see that they are being used from above by someone, no matter who it is, I wonder if it is worth it, he sums up.
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