Deputy Minister of Agriculture Michał Kołodziejczak announced on Thursday that he did not intend to talk to people protesting at the Ministry of Agriculture. When asked whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk or Minister Czesław Siekierski would hold talks with the protesters, he replied that he “only speaks for himself.”
– I do not intend to talk to those who want to play politics and make their demands as a form of blackmail – said Michał Kołodziejczak, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Polsat News on Thursday.
Today, this form of blackmail by the occupation is, firstly, unnecessary, and secondly – in my opinion – it has political reasons, he said.
He emphasized that some of the protesting farmers “don’t want to be convinced.”
I can only ask, where were they when the Green Deal was introduced, when the PiS government was sticking to it all in 2019? Where were they when Commissioner Wojciechowski praised the Green Deal? – he said.
Answering the question whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk or Minister Czesław Siekierski would talk to the protesters, Kołodziejczak stressed that he “speaks only for himself.”
On Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of Agriculture informed that the head of the ministry, Czesław Siekierski, met several times during the day with farmers occupying the building. It was noted that after all-day talks, most of the protesters left the ministry building. Only two people remained in the building: the chairman of NSZZ RI “Solidarność”, Tomasz Obszański, and the former chairman of NSZZ RI “Solidarność”, former Minister of Agriculture Gabriel Janowski. According to the ministry, “this proves that representatives of NSZZ RI “Solidarność” have political motives to continue the protest.
