Fierce exchanges hallmark Sejm debate on banks

At press time the Sejm still had not voted on the motion. During the debate PO leader Donald Tusk attacked Law and Justice policy, "Today we are witnessing an attack on another independent institution," he said. He compared PiS' practices to, "What happened before 1989," and stated that, "The core of the debate is Law and Justice's pathological need to control everything and everyone." He went on to compare Jaroslaw Kaczyński to Andrzej Lepper. "There is no Law and Justice anymore, and the phrase "Balcerowicz must go" is now repeated not by Andrzej Lepper but Jaroslaw Kaczyński. You are now the executors of Andrzej Lepper's will." In response Jaroslaw Kaczyński accused the PO of a, "Drastic attack on the state," and declared that the state had to be a strong institution in order to, "Restructure society after communism." (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 4; Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, A4) E.B.