Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has relieved the deputy governor of Decrease Silesia, Jacek Protasiewicz, after a collection of weird social media posts, together with “homophobic” insults.
Protasiewicz is a member of a political group allied with the Polish Folks’s Social gathering (PSL), a junior associate 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 bought right into a flame warfare on X (previously Twitter), calling one critic a “awful bum” and one other a “stinking coward,” in keeping with native media. The next day, he started posting about what gave the impression to be a romantic relationship with Daria Brzezicka, a celebration activist who’s 30 years his junior.
When Brzezicka known as out a journalist for making insinuations about her, Protasiewicz known as him “bizarre, common, crap” and steered the reporter had a small penis. He known as one other X consumer 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 “large and purple lips” and “delicate mouth” had been accountable for activist Oskar Szafarowicz’s profession within the previously ruling PiS occasion. The activist has since stated 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 needed on his personal X account.
The provincial governor’s workplace felt compelled to tweet that Protasiewicz’s posts had been “his personal opinions and by no means categorical the place of the governor.”
Protasiewicz was as soon as a member of Tusk’s occasion however was expelled in 2015. Earlier than his dismissal on Monday morning, Protasiewicz tweeted a photograph of his previous occasion comrades and stated he knew “many cool tales, necessary and definitely fascinating for this nation,” which he initially supposed to share after his retirement “however possibly I’ll inform them sooner.”
When requested if this concerned any grime, he replied, “no grime, 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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