Summer recess is over and the insults in Parliament begin in earnest

The first Sejm meeting after the summer recess which took place yesterday, begun with a conflict between Stanisław Łyżwiński (Self-Defense) and Wacław Martyniuk of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). Łyżwiński accused the SLD deputy of manipulation while working on a motion to remove his immunity, and appealed to Sejm to stop the session. Gabriel Janowski of the Polish Families League (LPR) also shocked members of parliament when he returned to the issue of the way sugar companies were privatized, and turned to Sejm Speaker Marek Borowski saying, "What? Are you lost for words?". In order to prevent this type of behavior, the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) has proposed that in situations where a member of parliament insults another deputy, a meeting of the Ethics Commission should be called, with the power to make the bad-mannered deputy apologize publicly to his colleague within 24 hours. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.K.