J Kaczynski: photo - PAP/Andrzej Hrechorowicz
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of opposition party Law and Justice is organising the march for 13 December, following Foreign Minister Sikorski's speech in Berlin on Monday that called for a more integrated Europe, with Germany leading the way.
“We will protest against what Minister Sikorski said,” Kaczynski declared on Wednesday evening in an interview with public television station TVP1.
“A march will be held on 13 December against the policies presented by the head of the Foreign Ministry.
“Against the constitution, and without consulting with parliament, Minister Sikorski went incredibly far with these declarations, [which were] made in a foreign country,” he said.
“Many Poles do not want Polish independence to be a mere 20-year interlude,” Kaczynski reflected.
The leader of Law and Justice also reiterated his aim to bring Sikorski in front of the State Tribunal, the supreme legal body which rules on whether public statesmen have broken the constitution.
On Tuesday, President Komorowski appeared to acknowledge that he had not been consulted about Sikorski's speech, during which the foreign minister demanded of Germany that “for your own sake and for ours, you help [the eurozone] survive and prosper. You know full well that nobody else can do it."
Komorowski said that Sikorski's speech, which also called for greater economic integration in the EU, “contained necessary proposals for discussion,” but “nevertheless, it would have been worthwhile to have had a debate in Poland, because then there would not be such heated emotions.”
Kaczynski's plans for a new “march of independence” raise the spectre of this year's 11 November event, which descended into violence as leftists – many of them German anti-fascists – attempted to block a march led by two fringe Polish nationalist groups.
Following the march, President Komorowski called for a review of the laws regarding public assembly, suggesting in particular that participants in gatherings should not be allowed to mask their faces. (nh/pg)
Source: PAP