In exchange, in Kwasniewski’s first interview given for Wprost weekly, the former President express his support for continuously weakening Smolensk’s lie. At least that was the scenario. Life itself has rewritten plans adding a ridiculous episode – typically Russian problems with delivering comprehensible speech during a press conference.
Comeback had been meticulously prepared and preceded with multiple contacts of the former President with post-communistic oligarchs – Kwasniewski visited Cuba, accompanied by his wife, and two key figures of post-communistic business: Kulczyk and Niemczycki. Information delivered by Gazeta Polska informer had been later confirmed in Kwasniewski’s office. ‘It was a sheer private trip’ – made her reservation Anna Wnuk, the office’s director. Asked whether the businessmen were willing to back up president’s initiative, she answered: ‘I do not have any of such information’.
It supposed to be so nice! Public TV ‘News of the day’ (Wiadomosci) commissioned a public opinion poll showing that 51 per cent of Poles perceived Kwasniewski as a leader of the united Left-wing of the political scene. It was announced ‘by chance’ on the same day when another left-wing initiative, ‘Europa Plus’, led by infamous Janusz Palikot, had its press conference.
Attack of liquors on Kwasniewski’s ability to express himself comprehensibly made a mess of the prepared scenario; however, his comeback show has not been yet cancelled, what proves it was originally backed up by the pro-governmental media.
Soon after Kwasniewski’s speech the reporters commented live on his behaviour on twitter. All of them saw the same: ‘The Philippines?’ –asks Agnieszka Burzynska from RMF FM radio channel relating to famous presidential ‘ill disposition’ from the past, the then explained by a consequence of suffering from an oriental ‘Philippine’ virus. ‘No, how comes? Am I drunk? No way! Janusz, did I drink anything?’ – tweets her colleague from the editors-office, Tomasz Skory. Krzysztof Skorzynski from YVN TV channel recalls Kwasniewski’s speech in Ukraine when he got stuck stumbling over the: ‘savoir vivre’ expression, repeating sheepishly: ‘as that, as that…’. ‘Is it only me who hears Kwasniewski and Palikot’s mumbling?’ tries to confirm his impressions Grzegorz Kwolek from TVP Info.
Whatever reporters impressions were, there were not necessarily fitting their bosses plans. As a consequence there was not a word about the incident in the mainstream media until the evening. In the end mainstream decided they could not buried their heads in sand and reported it, but while relating it they kept quiet about reporters’ relations casting the Law and Justice MPs in roles of Kwasniewski’s adversaries.
The mainstream portals kept on being silent, apart from wp.pl which presented material from the conference, commenting it as a brawl between Kwasniewski and the Law and Justice. The same repeats Gazeta Wyborcza daily on the next day.
What does that history show?
It reveals to us a wider phenomenon. Kwasniewski’s spin doctors replicated methods giving him once a success in 90s. Kwasniewski was the then close to bosses of the mainstream media, and he used to party with them in the Presidential Palace on weekly basis. At these times his regular ‘indispositions’ would be easy to cover up, but today there is a gap making possible to hype up his behaviour – it’s Twitter.
Kwasniewski is an archaic creature – as political scientists believe. ‘He is a politician who has not been verified in electoral process for more over thirteen years. Over that period of time we have witnessed generational and cultural change marked with establishing new lines of social and political divisions’ – believes a political scientist, Rafak Chwedoruk. In his opinion one cannot build up a political party improvising like in the 90s. The reason for Kwasniewski’s popularity was a support of pro-Kremlin lobby in Poland. Also today the former president tries to use that pattern. In his recent interview given to Wprost weekly he engaged decisively in the Smolensk’s lie.
Is it just about taking over the Civic Platform electorate? It doesn’t look so. Kwasniewski’s way of argumentation is unpopular in Poland, but suits well Russia. There is a lie about pressure put on pilots: ‘a young pilot after traumatic experience from flight to Georgia’. There is also nonsense repeated about an ‘armoured birch’: ‘the airport had not been used for years; the trees had grown up over that time. The airplane hits the tree; pilots cannot see landing strip, and so we have the tragedy’.
From the Russian perspective it looks as if there was a big calibre politician coming back on the scene; supporting Smolensk’s lie, and cuddling weakening, pro-Russian Palikot movement.
Jaruzelski gets into a sweat about Grodzka
What are, other than ‘a Philippine disease’, weak points of the ‘Kwasniewski project’? Electorates of the Palikot Movement and Democratic Left Alliance are not homogeneous ones. The first political project tried to attract youngsters with slogans about legalising soft drugs and promoting liberal morality. The other one – the Democratic Left Alliance – attracts people over 50s, who express their positive attitude to the communistic era, but much more conservative in respect of morality – says Chwedoruk. In his opinions these are poles apart. These believing in marijuana are scared by Wojciech Jaruzelski figure, while these longing to the communistic times by Anna Grodzka.
A political scientist, Jakub Swiderski from the Gdansk University, analysed alleged motivation of ‘Kwasniewski project’ recent conference participants. The most interested in its success seemed to be Marek Siwiec MEP, who if continued being a member of the Democratic Left Alliance would have a choice either to listen to what Leszek Miller commissioned or to give up his post as an MEP.
In his own opinion Palikot needs ‘a rescue boat’ for his party image does not suit well a potential success in elections to the European Parliament. The hardest is to guess what Kwasniewski alone is at. Does he seek for having a place in history? That he already has as the one who had held the position of the Polish President for the longest time. Swiderski doubts whether Kwasniewski wanted to hold a post in international politics, alike the former Prime Minister, Jerzy Buzek. ‘I doubt whether he would feel comfortable, familiarising with Brussel’s officials and talking about EU directives. Maybe it is that he wants to be back into the society, have a drink and a chat? If it was so, Palikot and Siwiec or Kulczyk and Niemczycki are much better than van Rompuy, something’ – says Swiderski. Kwasniewski is lured back into politics rather than doing something on his own account. The effect? His curiosal behaving at the conference.
Source: http://freepl.info