MP Calls President “Yob”

28th July 2008

Ruling Civic Platform MP Janusz Palikot has brushed aside orders to apologise for calling President Lech Kaczyński a “yob” (“cham” in Polish), saying he will only say sorry to Poles generally for having left them to put up with such a president.

Ruling Civic Platform MP Janusz Palikot has brushed aside orders to apologise for calling President Lech Kaczyński a “yob” (“cham” in Polish), saying he will only say sorry to Poles generally for having left them to put up with such a president.
Civic Platform chiefs told Palikot to apologise publicly after he said on Monday that he viewed Kaczyński as a yob for his treatment of Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in talks on locat ...