A vote on the ban on flagism in Poland was held late in the Polish Parliament. While the behaviour of the ruling coalition Members, who with their decisions could easy sit on the benches of the ultimate Council of Ukraine was no surprise, the conduct of the president of the fresh Hope Party, who was part of the Confederacy after the dissolution of the amazement.
What about the punishment of flagism in Poland? The limitless assistance which the Polish state and Poles themselves provided to the Ukrainians after the start of the next phase of the Russian-Ukrainian War, which has been in advancement since 2014, and which met with the boot, arrogance and threats to Poland and Poles, led to the situation that during the fresh presidential run the issue of Poland's relations with Ukraine played an crucial function in public discussion.
One of Sławomir Mentzen's candidates even went to Lviv to show a statue of the genocide and terrorist Stefan Bandera standing since 2003. It was then that the free - speaking neo-banderists began threatening him and his household for reprising the unloving past of their idols. However, erstwhile the dust of the fight for the seat of the president of Poland fell, it turned out that Sławomir Mentzen was against the effort to ban flagism in Poland, arguing that... he supported freedom of speech.
The desire for freedom of expression, which, according to the leader of fresh Hope, should be able to glorify the bands liable for the brutal murders and rapes of representatives of another nations and the implementation of the concept of depriving the Polish state of independent existence and depriving part of its area (because specified allegations after 1944 were received by UPA band members before Military Courts in Poland[1]) is seemingly more crucial to Mr Mentzen than the costs to the Polish people in connection with the further expansion of criminal ideology.
Following the blow in the fight for freedom of speech, the leader of the fresh Hope and candidate of the Confederation of Freedom and independency for the office of president of Poland Sławomir Mentzen should apply for the anticipation of freely praising an unfulfilled artist from Austria and his views or companion Joseph the sickle and hammer lover.
Of course, it seems essential to affect all the forces of the Confederate in the fight for the expulsion from the penal code of Article 190 on criminal threats, due to the fact that it is only freedom of speech and according to Mr Mentzen's words that "Everyone should have the right to make a public fool of themselves. ... Everyone should have the right to publically proclaim views that should exclude him from the list of civilized people"[2].
You can ask yourself rhetorical questions why at all during the presidential run Sławomir Mentzen was going to Lviv since present he thinks "flagism problem can only be solved by Ukraine".
One thing is certain, despite the fact that the Confederation of Freedom and independency achieved excellent poll results after a reasonably short stay on the Polish political scene, which are the consequence of the fatigue of a large part of the society with the dualism of the PO-PiS, specified votes clearly show that unfortunately the ideas of the overthrow of the table are pushed distant into an indefinite future, erstwhile on the horizon there is simply a chance to capture the state's rudders.
What can happen in the current political situation in Poland? If the Confederation of the Polish Crown consistently expressed its views and acted with a long-established course, it is possible that it will attract most of the electorate of the Neo-Confederation, disappointed by the decisions of its leaders. Cards in the hand of Grzegorz Braun's party, the question is, will he usage this moment?
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[1]https://ipn.gov.pl/repressions/pdf_file/0010/97318/Boczkowski_Jozef.pdf
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