After our article What happened at the May City Council session, or how self-government is being finished off in Bolesławiec Tadeusz Łasica, a councillor of Bolesławiec municipality, spoke out. Below is an excerpt from his statement. More on his fan page.
"(...) while I was spreading the idea of local-government democracy, a spectacle of antidemocracy was taking place in the city. Oh yes, the Act on Municipal Self-Government was not adopted there. It borders on cabaret when the executive authority, that is, the mayor, sits next to the council chairperson, who needs support. Poor man, he does not realise the who-is-who of this system. I would not care (...) if it were not for the fact that in Bolesławiec there are repeated council-session spectacles about the need to merge the city with the rural municipality. They want to absorb me with their principles. But if only it were about sitting. They sit there for a full two hours with the expressions worn by listeners of Franek Dolas on a Yugoslavian train. Only a chamber pot is missing. Or a chaise longue for the listeners.
This does not violate the law, but what was devised to turn the resident away is already a breach of regulations. (...) The Bolesławiec statute failed to identify that the councillors had introduced requirements going beyond the law, under which a person wishing to speak about the report on the state of the municipality only has to submit a list with the appropriate number of supporting signatures, without any additional information. But not in the county city. The announcement about the requirement cleverly stated the number, but did not specify these extra-Bolesławiec conditions. And because they were absent, the chairperson refused to let the resident speak. Criticism hurts, it hurts. And when I think that this local-government class might rule over me, it makes my knife open in my pocket.(...)."