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February 23, 2006

Who Rules Poland, Part II

Following in the footsteps of Teresa Lubi?ska (kicked out of the ministry of finance for speaking the unspeakable) comes Stanis?awa Okularczyk, until recently the deputy minister for agriculture. While down in southern Poland she had the audacity to tell her voters:

The Warsaw set is laughing at you. Minister Jurgiel [her boss] does not understand the agricultural problems of Ma?opolska. … Lobbyists and special interest groups dominate in the ministry. It’s hard to find an honest person there.
It is hard to square the nearly-ruling party’s harping on about restoring decency and honesty to Polish public life with their habit of sacking people for telling the truth.

Posted by hgrodsk at February 23, 2006 08:51 PM

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