They met when she was 23. Even after the birth of her second child, she called him “Mr.”

When I ask Korwin about the role of women in the party, he immediately says: “I haven’t slept with any of them.” Well, not exactly. I made an appointment with Korwin and his wife Dominika for the first time in the Sejm, but I forgot my wallet and documents, and the last time I was there was probably in 2006, when I wrote about the harassed women from Samoobrona. At that time, you could enter the Sejm from the street, to chat with deputies, and now there is a guard, a gate, a blockade that grows out of the ground like a barrier for tanks, so I put the complete amateur aside, forgetting these documents, and you still need a journalist’s pass. I’m standing and thinking, I’m looking at journalists with television faces who enter there as if to themselves, only two young people, with a camera, with helpless faces, bounced off the parliamentary gates, because they don’t have passes, but – after 19 years and for the first time in Sejm.

I approach the Sejm hotel, but I bump into the belly of the guard who declares that journalists are not allowed in the restaurant. A lot has changed since I sat here with Members, eating, drinking and squeezing information out of them like ketchup. Korwin saves me because he comes up with his wife Dominika and firmly declares that I am his guest. Curious why I was here in 2006, and when I tell the story after which Samoobrona and the PiS government turned to powder, he slows down considerably, although he still limps. “Oh lord, this bodes ill for me.”

“Today I ate a frozen pizza, the worst I’ve found”

In the restaurant, just in the morning break in voting, deputies collapsed for breakfast. Korwin takes a three-egg omelet with all the trimmings. Dominika – thin toast, bitter tea, husband also tea and asks about the sugar bowl. The waiter knows the script because he says “of course, we’re prepared.” Korwin throws in six cubes, spreads the bread thickly with butter. Recently, he read somewhere that someone was close to death because he only ate fast food, so he’s been eating fast food for weeks, which the media picked up of course, he’s being talked about again, especially in the tabloids, and Korwin’s argument is as follows: ANEGDOTA: Americans eat 30 times more junk food than 100 years ago and live 30 times longer.

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“Today I ate frozen pizza, the worst I’ve found, and drank instant coffee.

“And that’s what keeps you alive?”

– Of course not! Women!

I look at Dominika, I think she confirms it. After this experiment with food, Korwin lost about eight kilos, because he basically ate little and noticed that he was better at playing checkers after eating fast food, but he doesn’t know why. – Glucose is energy. My uncle, for example, was screwing everything up, and he was 98 years old, did I tell you already? The husband of my father’s mistress… Yes, my father had a rich life. Damn, I’m spilling out of this cup, what a strange tea… But what gives me the most energy is hating socialists.

Dominika: – I’m spilling too.

Korwin: – When I once drank champagne, extra-dry, the whole bottle, the sugar ran out and I got weak…

Korwin weighs about 100 kilos, again, because he weighed 95 when he lost weight after eating fast food, but he got fat on “Holidays with the Confederation”, when he used to go around his favorite Polish sea, as he says, ate and ate there.

ANEGDOTH: The average bum who eats canned garbage lives longer and better than Casimir the Great who ate rotten deer meat.

So we eat breakfast and talk like that. Dominika: – The president drinks a day, I don’t know, from 10 of these teas with sugar…

Did you say “president”?

Did I say “president”?

– Yes.

– Oh yes.

Korwin: – She talks to me like German women to their husbands.

– But you are not from Germany.

Korwin: – But he is of Austrian origin.

Dominika: – I say “president” in front of people.

– Do you sometimes confuse these roles?

Korwin: – He doesn’t call me “the president” in bed.

Dominika: – I called you “sir” for a long time, remember?

Do you remember when I stopped? Because I remember.

Korwin: – When?

I guess she got confused.

“Even after the birth of my second child, I called him Mr.

– Seriously?

– He was my idol. Well, a great character, I couldn’t … When I told my family about him, after I gave birth, it was: “Mr. Janusz is coming” …

– You are, how to say, the guardian of the image of your husband?

– You could say. But lest you think, my husband is independent, I deal with Instagram, stuff like that, because he won’t take pictures of himself.

– And how is it going?

– I’m trying. As you know, it’s hard to stop the president… husband, and he’s attacked from all sides…

Korwin yells at the whole restaurant: – Pepper! There is no pepper!

The parliament waiter almost teleports to the table and points with his finger that the pepper is behind the sugar bowl. Dominika, excited, rummages her purse: – Where are your medicines?! I can’t find… Well, there isn’t…

Korwin’s phone normally beeps, dribbles, squeaks, rings every few seconds, because it has notifications on Messenger, TikTok, Facebook and other Snapchats turned on, but now, all sandy – the effect of “Holidays with the Confederation” – it has been silent for half an hour. Korwin: – No, he calls me all the time.

– He is silent.

Dominika: – That’s true, she’s silent.

Korwin: – Indeed, it does not beep.

“I think you’ve quieted down.”

Corwin: Certainly not.

– Rather yes.

Korwin: – And yes, you’re right, muted…

And the phone beeps like crazy again. Korwin: – Someone once put my phone number online and they wouldn’t let me rest even at night. The phone rings, he picks up. She’s a cook-housekeeper.

– For lunch? Come up with something… But I won’t eat, maybe dinner… But wait, around six o’clock two gentlemen come, so you have to come up with something…

– Did you like this world? – I ask Dominika.

– A terribly difficult question … Keeping pace with the president … with Janusz is difficult, it can be chaotic, a lot of things are happening, too much …

“It was shocking for everyone”

When you ask Korwin’s activists how it was with the president’s newest family, they make a face as if I asked about their first time. It was the presidential election, as “Miss Agata” said, in 2015, of course, Korwin ran, which is the worst moment to reveal that you have two families, one of which is hidden. Stanisław Żółtek remembers that suddenly his wife Małgorzata came to Brussels, where Korwin was crazy about hailling, and simply said goodbye to them, as if she was about to die. The yellow one was already worried because Korwin often drove around Lesser Poland and Podkarpacie, and he was worried because the more often the president was there, the greater the chance that something would splash in his area, as with this Kuklinski. Well, it turned out and the shock in the party was powerful, Korwin even hinted that he would not be a candidate, that there was too much row at home, but the “Christian values ​​of Latin civilization” suffered the most, which Korwin included in the program of each party.

– And no, I knew – Dobromir Sośnierz, MP from Korwin, tells me. “It was shocking to everyone, but I knew. I kept my mouth shut and watched with amusement as others said: “That’s ridiculous.” But I got rid of my illusions about Korwin much earlier. – Sośnierz allows himself to be honest, because when we talk, he just checked out of Korwin’s party.

But the worst was when an activist from Wrocław found out about it, Robert Maurer, who had to redefine the whole image of Korwin. Maurer treated Christian values, family and faith literally, as written in the party’s statute. And such a few faith-filled votes of Korwin for having two families, one of which was secretly expelled from the party in 2015.

Stanisław Michalkiewicz, when I ask him about Korwin’s attitude towards women, smiles and twirls his thumbs as if he was activating a small spring lecture: – Women… Well, Korwin likes women, but he does not consider them equal partners, he wants to see admiration from them, respect, devotion. There is a hint for this in St. Paul’s letter that was read once in a marriage ceremony, and it’s a pity that it was discontinued because it was practical, so it says that the wife should respect her husband and the husband should love his wife. And emancipation meant that women no longer respect their husbands. Michalkiewicz did not meet all Korwin’s women and wives, he knows the current Dominika the least, but he knew Ma³gorzata well and was even worried when “it happened”, and even surprised when Małgorzata appeared at the jubilee
“It’s high time!”, because Janusz was already with Dominika.