Confederate press conference attended by Michał Wawer and Marek Szewczyk, on 19 February 2024.
Michael Waver:
– Ministers of Siekierski and Kołodziejczak to resign! The Polish Ministry of Agriculture in its current composition already governs agriculture – trying to regulation – for 2 months, and at that time Nothing happened in agriculture..
The situation is only getting worse. Let us look at the achievements of Minister Siekierski, Minister of Agriculture from the PSL, during this period. For 2 months, zero bills, no regulations. On the national front, Minister Siekierski does not be in Polish agriculture at all. possibly it exists on the European front? All we know is that he was there talking due to the fact that the effects aren't visible. Even worse, Minister Siekierski went to Brussels to negociate with the European Union better conditions for Polish farmers, to halt the European Green Deal and its reforms, and even announced success on this episode – with all the triumph that he negotiated a compromise. It turned out that this compromise was that the rules concerning the fall, i.e. the killing work for Polish agriculture to keep part of non-productive land – this the compromise has been formulated in specified a way that the provisions on wailing are suspended for a year. For 1 year, 2024. This is, ladies and gentlemen, nothing.
This is worse than nothing, due to the fact that if individual on behalf of Poland agrees to specified a pseudo-compromise, he sends a signal that after the end of this year, after the expiry of this pseudo-protection period, Poland is already in order. Poland already agrees, and Polish farmers do not head that from the first of January next year this fallacy will enter full-time, without any relief, without any compromises. It's worse than nothing, and it's not just a failure, It's just a spectacular failure!
And that alone is adequate to remove Minister Siekierski from the Ministry of Agriculture! Perhaps, however, erstwhile minister Siekierski had specified “successes” in Brussels, he left Polish agriculture here in Poland, in Warsaw, in good hands, in the hands of Deputy Minister Kołodziejczak? So let's look at what Deputy Minister Kołodziejczak did during that time erstwhile Minister Siekierski was fighting in Brussels. Deputy Minister Kołodziejczak was at farmers' protests, trying hard to make it appear that he and these farmers are protesting against the government he is part of. Deputy Minister Kołodziejczak besides conducted parliamentary interventions in institutions under government control! Again, trying to make it seem that he is not part of the government that tried to control and in which companies he conducted parliamentary interventions. And in general, looking at the activities of Minister Kołodziejczak, It was very hard to find what his function in the Council of Ministers was, his function in the Ministry of AgricultureBecause the only thing he's been doing all this time is trying to pretend that this government doesn't belong at all, and that he's protesting against this government. This is most likely not what Polish farmers and Poles anticipate from a well-paid deputy minister!
This government came in a very hard time for Polish agriculture. It was known in advance that the Minister of Agriculture, that the full management of this ministry would face immense challenges. A very hard time, very hard fighting both in the section of cooperation with Ukraine and in the section of EU regulation, the European Green Deal. That there are many threats to Polish agriculture, that there is simply a lot to be done here. I It was a time erstwhile you had to appoint a warrior! individual who will actually be able to fight for Polish interests. Who did we get in return? We have received the minister of Siekierski, a good “professional PSL-person”, which has existed in Polish politics for 30 years as a Euro MP of 3 terms of office, as an MP of 5 terms of office – and all he has done in that time, The only thing that he has distinguished himself through this time, looking at articles about him, is that he has achieved a very high, record-high Euro-Mediterranean pension! And mostly in this context he appeared in media articles.
Now he was called not as individual who is to do something in this Polish agriculture, but simply as individual who is to take the blame. It is to service as a bumper for Tusk and Kosiniak-Kamish. His complement, his right hand is to be Deputy Minister Kołodziejczak. I don't think you request to explain, Deputy Minister Kołodziejczak is the man who received this position in exchange for betraying Polish farmers and going to Tusk's salary, the wage of the Civic Platform.
This is not how the management of the Ministry of Agriculture should look at this hard time! Mr. Axis and Mr. Kołodziejczak to resign!
We call on Prime Minister Tusk to appoint a very crucial ministry of individual who can fight for Polish interests. In the Ministry of Agriculture, we request a warrior!