'Gambling' commission - the end of party wars?
Bogumił Kolmasiak, translation: AG Saturday, 09 January 2010 21:29
Prime minister, Donald Tusk, is satisfied with Beata Kempa and Zbigniew Wassermann (Law and Justice) coming back to the commission investigating works on 'gambling law'. In voting if L&J deputies should return to commission DLA, PPP (Polish People's Party - Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe) and L&J were for. Majority of CP (pl.: PO) was against Wassermann to return and abstained in Kempa case.
Tusk states, he is happy with L&J deputies return and added, that he couldn't imagine being questioned without their participation.
It happened definitely too late. Media, in this case extraordinarily accordant, are critical in opinions concerning CP deputies' actions, that resulted in expelling Kempa and Wassermann. CP's shown itself as a party that protects narrow businesses and a party being afraid of commission works, of which result CP can loose a lot.
It almost has come to complete discredit of 'gambling' commission. It would have happened if L&J deputies, not being able to take part in it's works, had carried over the investigation to Justice and Human Rights Commission.
There is still hope, that commission will clarify uncertain connections between politic and business in preparing 'gambling law'. I have nothing against including a period of DLA (pol.: SLD) governing to investigation. But in the first place, the most recent cases should be clarified - a case of Schetyna, Sobiesiak and Chlebowski, lobby of businessmen, investigating what kind of lobby it was.
