The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw ordered the President's Chancellery to consider a request for public information concerning the gathering of president Karol Nawrocki with Rafał Brzoska and Omena Mensah and possible gifts related to this visit. The judgement of 23 January 2026 is invalid. The case was brought to court by the civilian Network Watchdog Polska.
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The available papers show that the organization applied to the President's Chancellery on 4 September 2025, asking not only whether the gathering actually took place, but besides about its character, list of participants, possible material benefits and whether notes, protocols or another papers were created in the firm. The proposal was a reaction to media reports of a businessman visiting the Presidential Palace and about gift packages for the president and his family. In the public part of the case present there is no confirmed list of items or their value.
In a answer dated 18 September 2025, the President's Office informed Watchdog Poland that "it does not have information covered by the request". At the same time, the firm indicated that the data on the meetings could be linked to the President's calendar and the entry and exit register, but the calendar was to be an interior document, and the entry and exit registers – the position of classified information with the reserved clause. The letter was signed by Tomasz Pilarski, legal advisor at the Office of the Chief of Chancellery.
Watchdog Poland found this consequence insufficient and brought an action to the administrative court for inaction. According to the study of the Rzeczpospolita, the WSA acknowledged the organisation's right, indicating that the head of the President's Chancellery was an work to make public information available and that there was inactivity in the examination of the application. At the time of publication, it was not possible to confirm in open registers the full content of the message of reasons and the signature of the judgment, and so the conclusions on its detailed grounds should be treated with caution.
The dispute besides has a applicable dimension: without clearly available data, the public is not able to verify whether and what benefits the president and his loved ones received in connection with the visit of an influential entrepreneur. In parallel, there are diverging messages on the scale of gifts in public space, from the description of “more than 20 packages” to the version with 3 tiny packages with souvenirs. Only the execution of the judgement and the formal examination of the application will show whether the law firm will disclose the information, refuse to make it available in an administrative decision or take another procedural steps.
Sources: letter of the Chancellery of the president of Poland dated 18.09.2025 (BSK-ZOP.0605.265.2025.BM) made available in the strategy eod Watchdog Poland; publication of the Citizens' Network Watchdog Poland dated 03.10.2025; article "Rzeczpospolita" dated 02.03.2026
