
Just before the weekend, the PiS presidential candidate appeared at global salons. He flew to Brussels, met with the Italian Prime Minister, spoke with the candidate for president of Romania. The PiS is delighted, everyone publishes photos of his expedition. “This is simply a large typical of our interests, who showed that he can powerfully defend Poland’s position and get along with key European partners,” said Mateusz Morawiecki. However, the experts we are asking are crushing his general experience in global politics.
– All our current presidents – Andrzej Duda, Bronisław Komorowski, Lech Kaczyński, Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Lech Wałęsa – had prior preparation in global contacts to take over as president. On the another hand, Karol Nawrocki has no experience in this respect – Jan Wojciech Piekarski, erstwhile ambassador in many countries, erstwhile head of the Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of abroad Affairs, points out.
He recalls that Lech Walesa, before taking over the presidency, was known worldwide.
– erstwhile I worked with president Kwasniewski, I was amazed at how wide she had connections in Western European political circles. His successor, Lech Kaczyński, erstwhile Minister of Justice, erstwhile president of Warsaw, erstwhile MP, besides had diplomatic life. Bronisław Komorowski, erstwhile national defence minister, parliamentarian, besides had a number of crucial abroad contacts. Like president Duda, the erstwhile Euro MP, Deputy Minister of Justice, Secretary of State at the President's Chancellery, draws the attention of the diplomat.
As he says, erstwhile he looks at the list of presidential candidates, he sees only 1 who has an earlier global experience and contacts in the performance of his erstwhile functions.
– This is Rafał Trzaskowski, erstwhile Euro MP, erstwhile Deputy Minister of abroad Affairs, erstwhile Minister of Digitization. In specified positions, contacts are established and the global group begins to function. On the another hand, the function of the head of the IPN or the manager of the museum does not give specified opportunities, contacts and experiences as could then be utilized in a position at the Presidential Palace – he emphasizes in an interview with the erstwhile diplomat.
What can these shortcomings do?
– First of all, the fact that specified a president will not be an expression of his own abroad policy, but will be stuck like a cop by his advisors," the expert points out.
The last steps of the Law and Justice and the effort by Nawrock to establish contacts in Brussels may be hence. Although he most likely thinks he already has experience in this matter. It's not small.
What about the abroad Nawrocki? “This is simply a very different level than the 1 the president is facing”
It is known that Karol Nawrocki is simply a planet of life. As head and vice president of the IPN, and previously manager of the Museum of the Second planet War in Gdańsk, he travelled around the world. He made more than 50 trips to countries on all continents and spent on them, as stated by “Gazeta Wyborcza”, about PLN 800 thousand.
He was in Australia and fresh Zealand, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, China, Japan, USA, Argentina... For example, in Zimbabwe, as government parties reported in 2022, “the main intent of the journey was to advance the flagship IPN task “The Paths of Hope. Odyssey of Freedom” and the solemn beginning of the restored Polish cemetery in Rusape”.
– abroad travel is the domain of peculiarly wealthy people. It does not give them any prerogatives to hold the highest offices in the state. The level of interlocutors that Karol Nawrocki had during his travels mainly in the Polish community and those who care about the combatants is simply a very different level than the 1 with which the president faces erstwhile he meets global partners," says Jan Wojciech Piekarski.
Nawrocki was convinced that he worked hard for Poland and practiced global politics. – Do you think all abroad trips are trips? No, I worked hard for Poland – he repudiated the charges.
When the storm broke out around his apartment, he besides supported global politics.
– I had a very dynamic global policy. These apartments, these rooms happened to service simply for business meetings, so these days must besides be counted with guests from abroad or with guests from Poland – he explained.
But how does that relate to the actual global policy that Nawrocki is trying to grow as the PiS candidate?
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“Morawiecki wanted to do him a favour and show him at the salons”
– It was pure tourism. And if he explains it that way, he does not really know the word “international policy”. The head of IPN is not from global politics and cannot intensively grow it in his own apartment. This shows how “detached” he is from global affairs,” commented prof. Roman Kuźniar, global advisor to erstwhile president Bronisław Komorowski, erstwhile manager of the Polish Institute of global Affairs and the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA.
– besides his statements, specified as that he would talk to Putin, show that we are dealing with a man of a “tabula breed”. With complete ignorance in global matters, he believes.
But, as the expert adds, he understands that Mateusz Morawiecki wanted to do him a favour and “show him in salons”.
In this sense, Nawrocki's visit to Brussels on 20 March could most likely be considered a kind of political debut. Short, but seemingly adequate for the PiS voters, due to the fact that under his pictures any captivated: “Mr. Karol Nawrocki will be a very good president on the planet phase too!”
– I would not call it debut in salons – Jan Wojciech Piekarski opposes it.
He emphasizes that this was simply a gathering with the Italian Prime Minister, in which Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was active as the president of the EKR.
“The Prime Minister is more global than Karol Nawrocki. He's trying to pull any doors off him abroad. But this is not the same standard as the global contacts of the erstwhile Prime Minister," he says.
What Charles Nawrocki was doing in Brussels
Let us remind you that a European Council was held in Brussels before the weekend. In his Kuluaras, Karol Nawrocki met Georgia Meloni, head of the Italian government, formerly chair of the EKR Group in the EP, who was replaced by Mateusz Morawiecki.
Morawiecki besides attended this meeting. "We will make Europe safe again" concluded Nawrocki on X.
He besides stated that he would like the EU-US summit to be held in Warsaw.
– I would very much like to see Poland as the leader of the European Union's relation with the United States, erstwhile I become President, in this direction I will see Poland's function in the European Union, and I am so profoundly afraid that Donald Tusk is not taking advantage of the minute erstwhile Poland holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union – journalists have heard from him during the press conference.
The candidate of the PiS, surrounded by a garter by Euro MPs of the PiS, was photographed on each side. There are plenty of pictures of him from Brussels, which are praised by Euro MPs, in the right-wing depths of the network.
– It is very good that this gathering took place, due to the fact that Mrs Meloni besides had the chance to get acquainted with 1 of the candidates and to have an opinion on it. However, it was pointed out in advance that this is simply a private meeting. Serious meetings with abroad partners usually end in a joint speech. This time it wasn't at all. So Mrs. Meloni actually treated this as a private meeting, which is not worth giving any major political meaning – says Jan Wojciech Piekarski.
In Brussels, Nawrocki besides met with George Simion, a fresh far-right candidate for president of Romania (registered after his predecessor was excluded from the election and the elections had previously been cancelled).
Simion is simply a friend of Morawiecki. It is considered anti-Western and pro-Russian. The erstwhile Prime Minister of Poland was even in Romania to support him. – I think he is the best man for hard times – he praised him so.
"The future presidents of Poland and Romania are in Brussels today" they announced on social media Euro MPs of PiS, filling the network with photos of them.
"Excellent conversation with the future president of Poland. Both nations request leaders to take action for the benefit of both of our nations. Our relationship and partnership will be stronger than ever," said Simion on his social media.
Jan Wojciech Piekarski comments: "I wouldn't number this as a major contact. They're meaningless. There was virtually no more information in the media from these meetings.
"On abroad policy issues, it is absolutely strict from the start"
Of course, individual can say that there is no request for experience in global politics to become president. specified cases happen abroad.
– I wouldn't blame him for having no experience in global politics, due to the fact that that happens sometimes," admits Prof. Kuźniaar.
– But I would anticipate him to have any knowledge, sense, and people around him who prepare him. He is simply a candidate of the largest organization in Poland, who has been completely strict on abroad policy issues since the beginning. His statements indicate that he has no thought about these matters," he adds.
And, as Nawrocki claims, there is no change in global policy issues.
– individual who has a PhD in history, who was the head of the IPN, could be more shocked, even by reading the press and paying attention to the media. And he, as he was good morning, remained so. We don't know if he's got diplomatic sense due to the fact that we don't know how he does his conversations. In abroad policy, however, this is absolutely zero. And that's curious – he thinks.
I'm certain Charles Nawrocki speaks English.
– I have already arranged many things in English for Poland. For the past fewer years, I have conducted these accounts as president of the Institute of National Memory, so of course I operate in English. However, I cannot boast of the cognition of the Spanish language, but in Argentina or Mexico I read papers on Polish past – he said in November 2024, during his first press conference as a presidential candidate.