A manic Monday for Polish politics

kicked off with the new Defense Minister, Aleksander Szczyglo, accusing his predecessor Radoslaw Sikorski of incompetence. He stated that lack of coordination related to the issue of F16 fighter jets "is something that should not have taken place." Later it was revealed that the deputy chief police commander, Waldemar Jarczewski, had decided to resign from his post. In the meantime Deputy Prime Minister and former Interior Minister Ludwik Dorn sent a letter to the Prime Minister, which was revealed to the press, in which he demanded time off until the media stops speculating about the conflict between the police and the prosecutor. Dorn also complained about his successor, claiming that Kaczmarek had publicly announced that, during Dorn's tenure as Interior Minister, "the police did not undertake actions expected by the prosecutor in order to battle crime." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.K.