Zyta Gilowska has been removed from the post of minister for finance because she is being investigated on suspicion of having lied when she declared that she had not worked with the secret services in Communist Poland. (The process is called “lustracja” in Polish.) She is feeling aggrieved. She has said that she has less rights in the matter than a someone accused of child molestation would have.*

Gilowska left her party in favour of Prawo i Sprawiedliwo?? (apparently she’s not a card-carrying member), which incidentally made her a minister. The party is known for its devotion to “lustracja” and – if the party’s name (Law and Justice) means what the dictionary tells me – due process, the supposition of innocence and fair trials. It would seem that PiS’s devotion to lustracja was not a problem for her until she found herself in the target sights.

*Actually, she said “I have less rights than a paedophile or a murderer,” the distinction between being accused and being guilty apparently lying beyond her ken.