EU parliament wants to get rid of Polish vice president for Nazi comment

A controversial statement by the Polish Ryszard Czarnecki probably cost him his post as Vice-President of the European Parliament.

The leaders of the largest groups in parliament see this as 'serious misconduct' and want to take his vice-presidency. The full parliament will vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday. If two-thirds of the delegates present agree, he has lost his position.

55-year-old Czarnecki is a member of the Polish nationalist government party Law and Justice (PiS). It is in the European Parliament in the group of European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR), which includes the ChristenUnie / SGP. The ECR believes that he can keep his position.