WARSAW, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Donald Tusk is not the most suitable person to be the president of the European Council, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) Party Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Tuesday.
"There are many ongoing investigations and proceedings that may eventually lead to formal accusations against Donald Tusk," Kaczynski said during an interview with Polska Times newspaper, "I can imagine the Polish government will not back Donald Tusk for a second term in the European Council."
Kaczynski said that if Tusk continued to hold this position, it might be very dangerous both for Poland and Europe. "Our responsibility is to warn the EU of the consequences his re-election might entail," he said, "Tusk himself is a big problem."
The President of the European Council answered on his Twitter account that he was willing to take up the gauntlet and meet PiS leaders in a public debate about the most pressing issues.
During Tuesday's press conference later, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo also said the government may not support Tusk's bid for re-election. Other PiS members claim that Tusk's time in Brussels is "coming to an end" and his former Civic Platform party is undergoing a serious crisis which will "certainly make his plans to come back difficult, if not impossible, to fulfill."
Tusk's former party colleagues harshly criticized Kaczynski for his words. They said Tusk's political achievements were the best proof that he should be re-elected and that Kaczynski's remarks were unacceptable.
