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...Kaczynskis have been merciless with their own critics. Even fellow PIS politicians have been sacked for disagreeing with the Prime Minister. When former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek criticized a proposed law that would have required virtually all Polish professionals to declare whether or not they had collaborated with the communist secret police, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he was sullying Poland's good name...
Such behavior may hurt the party at the polls. Geremek became a hero for many at home and abroad for refusing to sign any such declaration, arguing that the government was trying to intimidate its enemies. "We are seeing the first real flowering of populism in the post-communist East," he told TIME. The Civic Platform is expected to pick up votes among the so-called élites that the Kaczynskis attack, but the PIS still appeals to a broader range of voters across society...
...Polish Senate, which is controlled by the twins' Law and Justice Party and their coalition allies, and coming into effect later this year - puts too much power in the hands of accusers. "It is a violation of the rule of law and the rights of ordinary citizens," Bronislaw Geremek, a leading social historian, who served as an adviser to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, told TIME. "It gives the state and managers the right of deciding the fate of individuals who are unable to defend themselves...
...Bronislaw Geremek...
...Geremek, one of the leaders of Poland's historic Solidarity movement, is a former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs and currently Polish deputy to the Europarliament...