Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has relieved the deputy governor of Decrease Silesia, Jacek Protasiewicz, after a sequence of weird social media posts, together with “homophobic” insults.
Protasiewicz is a member of a political group allied with the Polish Individuals’s Celebration (PSL), a junior accomplice in Tusk’s coalition authorities that took energy final December. Tusk fired him on Monday, on the request of the provincial governor.
Forward of the run-off election for the mayor of Wroclaw, the provincial capital, Protasiewicz obtained right into a flame conflict on X (previously Twitter), calling one critic a “awful bum” and one other a “stinking coward,” in line with native media. The next day, he started posting about what seemed to be a romantic relationship with Daria Brzezicka, a celebration activist who’s 30 years his junior.
When Brzezicka referred to as out a journalist for making insinuations about her, Protasiewicz referred to as him “bizarre, common, crap” and advised the reporter had a small penis. He referred to as one other X person who criticized Brzezicka an “imperceptible speck of mud,” whereas suggesting a 3rd critic was simply typing “silly issues” as a result of he was a jealous loser.
Protasiewicz went on to say that the “massive and crimson lips” and “delicate mouth” have been liable for activist Oskar Szafarowicz’s profession within the previously ruling PiS celebration. The activist has since mentioned he would sue the deputy governor for “vulgar, primitive, homophobic” remarks.
After the PSL “firmly distanced” itself from the politician’s “inappropriate” remarks, Protasiewicz responded he would do no matter he wished on his personal X account.
The provincial governor’s workplace felt compelled to tweet that Protasiewicz’s posts have been “his personal opinions and under no circumstances specific the place of the governor.”
Protasiewicz was as soon as a member of Tusk’s celebration however was expelled in 2015. Earlier than his dismissal on Monday morning, Protasiewicz tweeted a photograph of his outdated celebration comrades and mentioned he knew “many cool tales, essential and positively fascinating for this nation,” which he initially supposed to share after his retirement “however perhaps I’ll inform them sooner.”
When requested if this concerned any dust, he replied, “no dust, simply the reality” and implied he had written notes to again it up.
Protasiewicz was a member of the Polish parliament from 2001-2004 and once more from 2015-2023, and served three phrases as a member of the European parliament between 2004 and 2014.
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