PO begins to tighten party discipline as its deputies defect to join PiS

"PiS is drafting a list of possible deputies as well as bribing our deputies to join them with the promise of various post. We can call this political corruption," stated a PO deputy. Over the past week ,three PO deputies decided to cross the floor and join PiS, among them Andrzej Sośnierz. Meanwhile, PiS prefers to call the whole process "adoption" of deputies who no longer feel a place in their current party. "Listing is an abusive word. It makes even more difficult the negotiations between PiS and PO," said Tadeusz Cymański, deputy head of PiS' parliamentary club and added, "When someone is not loved, not wanted by his own party and comes knocking at our door, shouldn't we open it?" (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.F.