Today, the European Parliament removed its vice-president, the MEP from the Polish ruling party Pravo i Pravda Rishard Čarniecki, because he recently brutally insulted his colleague in the EP, Ruza von Thun, by comparing her to the Poles who during the German wartime occupation blackmailed or robbed Jews and extradited them. to the Nazis to certain death.
This is the first case of the removal of a vice-president of the EP before the end of the mandate.
Čarniecki was replaced on the proposal of four factions, which was supported by 447 MEPs while 196 were against, although the e-mails of MEPs were flooded with emails from sympathizers of the Polish authorities, with the request to leave Čarniecki in office.
"Ms. von Thun played the role of a snitch of her native country. During the Second World War we had 'schmaltsovnji' and today we have Ruža von Thun who unfortunately fits into a certain tradition," Čarniecki commented in unread words in an interview with the Njezaležna portal that that MP of the Polish opposition expressed her concern for democracy in Poland in an interview with foreign media.
The members of the European Parliament and the public in Poland were shocked by the fact that Czarniecki used the word "schmaltsovnjik", a special word in the Polish language that is a symbol of the supreme meanness and moral depravity of certain Poles who were able to blackmail and rob Jews who were hiding from safe deaths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other German Nazi camps in occupied Poland.
Čarniecki tried until the last moment to convince the MEPs to leave him in office and distributed leaflets around the EP with the message that he has been the vice-president of the EP since 2004 and that by defending him they are defending freedom of speech, linguistic pluralism and that the EU does not interfere in internal affairs member state.
"It is not a motion for removal that would be directed against Poland or the European Conservatives and Reformers faction, but only expresses the opinion that Rishard Czarniecki should no longer represent them in the EP," warned the proponents of Czarniecki's removal.
For the Polish authorities, the dismissal of Čarniecki is unpleasant because it is not certain that the vacant position will be filled again by a representative of Poland.
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