The Wednesday session of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, National Heritage and the Centres of Transmission was to be an chance to settle the kind of work of its president Piotr Adamowicz. The PiS Group demanded that he be dismissed, accusing him of limiting the debate, taking the level and holding meetings in specified a way as to impede the opposition's full participation in the committee's work.
Member of the Civic Coalition Wojciech Król submitted a formal application for an immediate decision to vote on the appeal. Most committee members supported this move, which in practice closed the way for a longer discussion. As a result, the motion to dismiss Peter Adamowicz was rejected, and he himself remained in the position of chairman.
Marek Suski gets up, throws insults and leaves
This is the way the parliamentarians of Law and Justice are most angry. MP Joanna Lichock powerfully opposed the resignation of the debate, but the real outburst of emotion occurred on the side of her clubmate.
Marek Suski stood up from the table, summarized the short "thank you" situation, and immediately added that "you can't work with morons". After a while, erstwhile he left the room, he added "Good-bye, ladies and gentlemen. Goodbye, you morons." Everything was recorded by seismic cameras, and the recording of the gathering was immediately circulated by media and social networks.
At that time, the committee continued its sitting without the participation of the PiS MP. After voting on Peter Adamowicz's stay in office, the president limited himself to a brief comment that "some performances are notorious", clearly not wanting to further heat the atmosphere.
The allegation of "no democracy" versus the practice of the committee
The allegations made by the politicians of Law and Justice towards Piotr Adamowicz and the majority in the committee were referring to the accusation of breaking the standards of parliamentary debate. Mr Piotr Gliński spoke about the deficiency of respect for the principles of democracy, pointing out, among others, the limitation of speaking time and the way in which meetings were set.
The ruling organization replied that the opposition had full chance to talk and that the committee did not usage any censorship of the statements. Ms Augustyn, who held the meeting, stressed that the admission of the Minister of Culture could not be regarded as a scandal but as part of the average work of the committee in which the government and the Members meet at 1 table.
The dispute over where the smooth conduct of the gathering ends, and the opposition begins to block, has been in the Sejm for months. This time, however, it was not the rules and procedures that attracted the attention of the public, but 1 conviction expressed in the nerves.
