Ousted sports minister says men's rules cost her job

Joanna Mucha. Photo: Wojciech Kusiński/PR

Joanna Mucha was one of several ministers to be dismissed in a major cabinet reshuffle on 21 November.

“Unfortunately, men have a way of doing politics, which I don't know how to do, and I don't want to,” she told the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

“This kind of politics is based on gaining influence and not on actually changing reality,” she said.

“I don't understand this way of doing politics, it doesn't make sense and I don't accept it.”

Speaking of the culture of heavy drinking that had apparently accompanied meetings with high level figures in sporting associations in the past, Mucha said that from the beginning of her term in office in 2011 she shunned such practices.

“They got a very message that this way of doing things had come to an end,” she said, adding that not once did she drink with any member of a sporting association. (nh)