Expert comments on words of Deputy Marshal of Poland’s Senate about the need for negotiations with Lukashenko

A couple of days ago, the Deputy Marshal of the Polish Senate, Maciej Zywno, said that Warsaw should start negotiations with the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko. A deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, Sergei Klishevich, believes this indicates that the Polish politician hears his people’s opinion.

Maciej Zywno was supported in the elections, and he became Deputy Marshal. According to Mr. Klishevich, this means the politician is obliged to express the opinion of his voters, “He sees that Poles want to live normally. They want to communicate, make friends, trade, visit each other – as we did before. There is no other choice. It is necessary to negotiate with Belarusians, sit down at the negotiating table, resolve issues and more or less coexist normally.”

The MP added in his talk with Alfa Radio that the idea of negotiations with the Belarusian side could have been expressed by Maciej Zywno in defiance of the opinion of the members of the formally ruling Law and Justice party. “Currently, there is a struggle for the formation of a government in the Polish political elites. We see what a time bomb was laid by the President of Poland, entrusting its formation to Morawiecki, who represents the PiS – the political force that was defeated in the recent elections in Poland. PiS is categorically against negotiations with Belarus. The second camp – Donald Tusk’s bloc – opposes everything that the PiS followers promote, and vice versa,” he explained.

Mr. Klishevich noted that the issues of trade, economic and political co-operation with Belarus are among the main ones on the Polish agenda for the both political forces, “We will see the outcome of this situation, including the position on Belarus, closer to mid-December, after the Polish government is formed. I am sure that the statement of the Deputy Marshal of Poland’s Senate is a message for the future for the Polish elites, for those who will come to power, hold ministerial posts, lead the state.”