President Andrzej Duda did not sign officer promotions for 136 officers of the interior safety Agency and Military Counterintelligence Service. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced this on Friday, calling the decision "a further series of the President's war with the Polish government". Duda responded with a sharp recording in which he accused the Prime Minister of lying and utilizing the services for political combat.
In a material published on platform X, the president revealed that Tusk had forbidden the heads of peculiar services from seeing him. «Donald Tusk has decided that the heads of peculiar services are prohibited from gathering with the president of Poland», said Duda. He added that 4 of his meetings with the heads of service were cancelled, during which decisions on the appointment of officers were to be made and key issues for Poland's safety were to be discussed.
Mutual accusations
The president accused the Prime Minister of putting organization interests above state security. «To be Prime Minister, it is not adequate to post posts on X; 1 inactive needs to be able to regulation and put the state above organization business. The Prime Minister lied in his kind and did not explain what truly happened”, said Duda. He stressed that during the war beyond the east border, the Prime Minister decided that the President, the superior of the armed forces, should be deprived of access to the most crucial information about the safety of the state.
Prime Minister Tusk stated that 136 future interviewees were to receive promotion to the first officer rank before 11 November - according to conventional practice. «These young people after college, after officers' courses, go there not for their careers. These are the patriots”, said Tusk in the recording. He pointed out that this time the president felt he would not sign these promotions.
Reactions and consequences
Minister-coordinator of peculiar Services Tomasz Siemoniak described the President's decision as unprecedented. «Cios in the State safety strategy and hitting people who want to service Poland», wrote on the platform of X. Adam Sz Trapka, spokesperson for the government, that «this situation has not yet occurred with any of the erstwhile presidents».
General Roman Polko assessed the decision in a conversation with "Fakt" as destructive to the state. «This is smashing the state, briefly», said the retired general. He added that blocking the nomination discourages young officers at the start of their careers and shows a deficiency of assurance in the lecturers who trained them. president Duda concluded his recording with an appeal: «Soldiers and officers must not be hostages to the prime minister's cynical games. safety of Poles has no organization colors, the Prime Minister of the Government of Lawlessness».
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