Tusk gores pit bull
The party has been under heavy fire since Law and Justice (PiS) politician Jacek Kurski, nicknamed PiS' pitbull due to his aggressive, black PR campaigns, accused PZU of financing PO leader Donald Tusk's presidential campaign.
Kurski claimed that after the insurance giant ended a campaign against dangerous drivers, it sold the billboards to PO for just three percent of their value. The billboards were supposedly then used by PO in Donald Tusk's presidential campaign. Hours after Kurski made the accusations, the Central Investigative Bureau (CB) raided PZU headquarters and seized documents regarding the 'mad drivers' campaign.
However, Kurski's latest PR salvo may have spectacularly backfired. "Two companies, AMS and Stroer, which sold PZU the billboards for the 'Stop mad drivers' campaign also sold billboards to Lech Kaczyński," PO's deputy Sławomir Nowak said.
PO's leader Donald Tusk was in an unforgiving mood. "Kurski's wretched intrigue hit his own boss," he crowed. Paraphrasing comments he read online, Tusk said: "The pitbull unleashed itself and bit its master."
PO has taken Kurski to court and the party is demanding zł.100,000 in compensation, which will be paid to the Caritas charity. PiS' whip Przemysław Gosiewski responded by accusing PO of brutally attacking PiS and called PO's accusations "an attempt to divert attention." President Kaczyński said that what Kurski said "is not without reason."
