Incoming Polish President Karol Nawrocki has already made some personnel appointments, and the current foreign minister is not happy about one of them.
Paweł Szefernaker, a PiS MP and head of Nawrocki’s campaign team, will serve as the president’s chief of staff. Rafał Leśkiewicz, previously the spokesman for the Institute of National Remembrance, will serve as the president’s press spokesman, reports Do Rzeczy.
And Professor Sławomir Cenckiewicz, former director of the Military Historical Bureau, will head the BBN. His deputies will be General Andrzej Kowalski, former head of the Military Intelligence Service, and General Mirosław Bryś, former head of the Military Recruitment Center.
Nawrocki said Cenckiewicz is “a distinguished intellectual, academic, director of the Military Historical Bureau, and author of numerous books on the activities of communist and Soviet secret services,” adding that he will serve “the strength and stability of the Republic of Poland.”
PiS MP Marcin Przydacz will be responsible for international affairs. Nawrocki also invited Wojciech Kolarski, the current presidential minister, to collaborate.
Commenting on TVN24, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski, appointed by the liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk, said, “There’s a problem here, because Mr. Cenckiewicz, who isn’t a professor, is facing prosecutorial charges for violating state secrets and is not allowed access (to them). He seems to consider the government a group of Russian spies. So, dialogue will be difficult.”
The Civic Platform politician also addressed Szymon Hołownia’s position in the context of the government reshuffle, admitting that he envisions a scenario in which the leader of Poland 2050 joins the government.
“It seems to me that this would be natural. Party leaders have the right, unwritten, to become deputy prime ministers,” the foreign minister noted.
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