The seismic hotel has been 1 of the most closed places in Poland for decades. There are no tv cameras or journalists, and only parliamentarians have access.
Officially, it is "a place of residence for Members from outside Warsaw". Unofficially, an enclave of customized degrengolada, in which the sea of vodka was poured out for successive terms. Minister of Agriculture present Stefan Krajewski (PSL) announced that after six years he was moving out of the Member’s hotel — and besides called the phenomenon “pathology”, pointing to circumstantial cases of rowing and widespread drinking.
In PRL, the hotel was more than a place to stay. It was there, in the buffet and the alleged "club room", political disputes were resolved, contracts were signed and the compositions of the committee were established. Memoirs of erstwhile employees of the Chancellery of the Sejm of the 1970s and 1980s paint a image of “night meetings” with alcohol — an component that legitimized informal arrangements.
After 1989, signs changed, but any customs remained. The press repeatedly described parliamentary libations and excesses — from chants in the home of the Members to situations where Marshal's defender officers had to intervene.
In fresh weeks media interest has sparked the August 6 incidental erstwhile MPs — including Dariusz Matecki (PiS), to which the patch of the most vulgar and rude parliamentarian was attached, was to celebrate the swearing-in of Karol Nawrocki, which ended in intervention and drawing up parliamentary notes. A name was besides indicated in public relations Luke Meiza as a associate in the event. Both Matecki and Meyza referred to the charges, denying any versions of events.
Alcoholic excesses of politicians are not just fresh to fresh years. Already in 2013 3 MPs of the Palikot Movement: Marek Domaracki (dead associate from Piotrków Trybunalski), Marek Stolarski and Małgorzata Marcinkiewicz — was suspended for 3 months for ‘behaving unworthy of a club member’ after they were to appear on a picket organised by Free Hemp under the influence of alcohol (the case was reported, among another things, ‘on Thematic’ and ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’). This is an example that even the fresh political formations were not free from imaged alcohol-related accidents.
Read: ‘Domarack collector’.
Stefan Krajewski's speech is not just a private motion — it's a signal that any parliamentarians see the hotel as a space where social standards blur. Krajewski openly talked about scenes of "insufferable": convoluted MPs, night fights, hiding bottles in service refrigerators. His name indication (including Matecki and Mejza in the media discussion) moves the debate from anecdote level to the dimension of public responsibility.
Stefan Krajewski's decision to leave the hotel is simply a symbolic step, but it is not adequate in itself. Environmental work is needed — clear principles in the home of Members, procedures for excesses and culture, which does not normalise alcohol intoxication as “a component of political life”.
The past of Mark Domaratsky and colleagues from the Palikot Movement and contemporary cases involving Matetsky and Mezza show that the problem has different faces and goes on for years, but it has 1 common denominator: drunken brawls are always caused by individuals who, besides in parliamentary work, behave unworthyly.
And so far, there has not been anyone who would have done 1 effective cutting on the grounds of the Sejm, so that parliamentary scum would have been outside the brackets, at least the seym lodges.
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9.10.2025
• Photo: Mariusz Barył / paper Tribunalska
