Six AWS members depart alliance to protest Gdansk Shipyard sale

The six Parliamentarians are members of the Radio Maryja family, centered around the controversial radio station. One of the six deputies, Adam Slomka, said the government has to decide whether to leave Gdansk Shipyard in "Polish hands or to give it away to the unstable company with the influence of German and Norwegian capital." After the secession, AWS leader Marian Krzaklewski, who had so far supported the decision to sell the shipyard, changed his mind and said that he wants to file a protest against the sale. However, said Jacek Rybicki, head of the Gdansk chapter of AWS: "The shipyard issue was only a pretext for the group to leave AWS. Jan Maria Jackowski [one of the secessionists] has been previously announcing his plans to create a new nationalist party." Rybicki said he agrees that the consortium should include one of the social movements that collected money for the shipyard, but he added that such a group will not bring in much funding. "There is a need for a partner with a strong capital base," said Rybicki. (Prawo i Gospodarka, pages 1, 2)