The war on the right continues to rage. Polling shows the Law and Justice (PiS) party may one day be forced to make a coalition with Grzegorz Braun and his Confederation of the Polish Crown if PiS wants to rule Poland. However, considering PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński harsh condenmnation and Braun and his ruling out of a coalition, it remains difficult to see how PiS and Braun could rule together in the future.
“Grzegorz Braun, MEP and leader of the Confederation of the Polish Crown, has crossed boundaries that are insurmountable for politicians in our civilization,” said PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński. He added that while he does not support repression, Braun’s party should remain on the margins.
During a briefing in the Sejm, Kaczyński was asked whether he had ever spoken to Grzegorz Braun and whether he considered him a “politician dangerous to Poland,” writes wPolityce.
“I’ve never spoken to him, and I consider him a politician who has far exceeded the boundaries that are impassable for politicians in our sphere of civilization. I’m not talking about today’s union, but about that sphere that could be described as the sphere of our civilization. He simply doesn’t fit into it,” replied the PiS chairman.
“I hope that the Confederation of the Polish Crown will not be in the parliament because they will not cross the electoral thresholds,” he added.
He stressed that he was not in favor of repression, but “this formation should remain on the margins. Beyond that, there’s the issue of his various presences in Moscow. There’s plenty of reason to say, ‘This is where the line is.'”
He added that PiS will not cross this line and that any vote for Braun is “completely ineffective” because – as he argued – if Poland wants to maintain the basis of security, “the new government cannot be a government with the participation or support of Mr. Braun’s supporters.”
An indictment against Braun was filed with the court last summer. The charges against him include events at the Sejm (lower house of parliament) on Dec. 12, 2023, including “extinguishing lit candles in a Hanukkah candlestick with a fire extinguisher,” which “offended the religious feelings of the followers of Judaism.”
According to the prosecutor’s office, Braun also violated the bodily integrity and “caused slight bodily harm” in connection with an intervention undertaken by one of the women attending the ceremony.
Other accusations surround incidents at the National Institute of Cardiology in 2022, when Braun entered the hospital with a group of people during the pandemic – none of whom were wearing masks – and then barged into a meeting of the facility’s management and allegedly detained its director, Dr. Łukasz Szumowski.
And yet another charge concerns events at the German Historical Institute in 2023, where Braun allegedly damaged property, including a microphone, and blocked a lecture by Professor Jan Grabowski on the Holocaust. The charges also include a case involving damage to a Christmas tree in the District Court in Kraków in 2023.
In a separate incident, Braun broke into a hospital ward and took a doctor hostage over his stance on abortion.
Most recently, Baun has taken up the cause of farmers, protesting with them against the recently signed Mercosur agreement and demanding that Poland exit the EU.
