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

brussels - A controversial statement by the Polish Ryszard Czarnecki probably cost him his post as Vice-President of the European Parliament. The politician had compared his compatriot and fellow MEP Roza Thun with Polish Nazi laboratories who betrayed Jews in the Second World War.

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.