Poland's Left has a memory problem

The Polish opposition party Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) has accused the government of being ill-prepared for the current floods in the country. In the conservative daily Dziennik Kamil Durczok has a hard time swallowing that: "I must say I find it funny that the first people to start hurling accusations at the government are the Democratic Left Alliance. When I heard on Tuesday that the former minister and current deputy chairman of the SLD, Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, wanted to ask the Civic Platform [the ruling party PO] why it had not done all it could to limit the damage despite the warnings, I immediately asked myself if the Left doesn't have major memory problems. Let's not forget that during the huge floods of 1997 the government in power at the time was totally unprepared for the crisis. And that was the government of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz [of the SLD]. Back then it took people a lot longer before they started criticising the behaviour of the SLD."

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