Staring Down Critics, Poland's Kaczynski Urges Faster Change
- Ruling party boss calls cabinet not led by him an `experiment'
- Seeks central bank help in resolving `toxic' banking products
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Undaunted by the biggest storm of international criticism against Poland in the country’s post-communist era, its most influential politician said his hand-picked government must accelerate the changes or risk dismissal.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski called Prime Minister Beata Szydlo’s five-month-old cabinet an “experiment” that, as the founder of the Law & Justice party, he’s monitoring. He’s seeking the central bank’s help in resolving “toxic” bank products, including foreign-currency mortgages, and wants to boost the domestic ownership of media organizations because “the brains of society can’t be under external control,” he said in an interview with weekly wSieci published on Monday.