
On 25 April this year, in Gniezno a solemn Assembly of Members and Senators was held on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry.
President Andrzej Duda, talker of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia, talker of the legislature of Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, president of the Council of Ministers Donald Tusk, Members of the Council of Ministers, MPs, Senators and erstwhile Prime Ministers attended the ceremony. The diplomatic corps was besides present in Gniezno, as well as representatives of the most crucial state institutions, MEPs, as well as representatives of churches and spiritual unions in Poland. The Parliament was besides represented by Deputy Head of Parliament's Chancellery Michał Deskur and Head of legislature Chancellery Ewa Polkowska.
- I'm sorry. I want this time to make us realize that we have more in common than we share. We share both the past – those generations that have developed this strong, unshakeable position that we have and the future, regardless of where we come from. Everything we do is for future generations. I hope that this event will let us to stay in this common home for a while, as present – in Gniezno – and set up a compass. The compass is generations before us, generations before us are azimut, and present we are going to talk about it," said Simon Holownia during the interview before the celebration begins.
The solemn assembly in Gniezno was opened by the Marshal of the Sejm. president Andrzej Duda spoke first.
- I'm sorry. I stand here as head of the Polish state to bow to Bolesław Chrobry and Mieszk II Lambert on behalf of my fellow countrymen. Monarchs who in the year 1025 were the first to presume the crown of independent rulers of the Kingdom of Poland – Andrzej Duda began.
The head of state recalled that present "we are commemorating the symbolic and formal confirmation of the fact that our country has become sovereign and since then as sovereigns respected by the centres of imperial and papal authority and another European courts." “We show our commitment to the large traditions of Polish statehood and the unification of us Poles, respect for the achievements of past generations of compatriots”, added president Andrzej Duda.
- Ambition, national pride and self-esteem motivated generations of Poles to fight, service and work for the common good. The first king of Poland actively sought the prosperity of his country and waited for the opposition of the German emperor to weaken. Centuries later Poles worked with the same perseverance to regain independency and waited for the chance to end the captivity of the partitions, and then the German business and decade of communism. due to the fact that freedom and sovereignty are the essence of our Polish identity – the president of Poland emphasized.
Finally, the head of state pointed out that we Poles are now being tested. "We are subjected to a test of the love of the Homeland, an effort to give our own sovereign state, whose existence, strength, prosperity and safety are besides essential for our individual freedom. Whether we will do everything in our power present to strengthen and guarantee its further improvement depends on the success of the next generations. It is simply a large work before fellow countrymen, before history, and believers will besides say: before God – he concluded.
The talker of the Sejm, Simon Holovnia, then addressed the assembly.
- Gaude Mater Polonia. Enjoy Mother, Polish. This anthem dates from a period of 200 years later than the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry and Lives II, but could be the motto of today's meeting. What would be our common main reason for joy? specified that we are the sons and daughters of Poland free, arrogant and wise—the wisdom of more than 40 generations that lived, died, worked, fought, created and built for their country, but besides for the generations that this paradise will dwell on after them," said Marshal Holownia.
- I'm sorry. The full coronation of the ruler is simply a symbol, a buckle, a complement to the beginning of the Polish statehood. The introduction of this autonomy can be considered baptism Lives in 966. Even the Polish People's Republic, under the force of the celebrations of the large millennium proclaimed by Primate Wyszyński, was a millennium of worship. However, the crowning of the ruler is simply a state promotion. Poland became a kingdom, a state organism of the higher order. This act created conditions for the people of the country to feel self-esteem and separateness," said Szymon Holownia.
The Marshal of the Chamber stressed that the communicative of the way to this coronation is not just the communicative of the Polish state's uprising. – It is simply a communicative about the request to belong to the Western planet and the equally strong request for sovereignty. It's a communicative about taking advantage of an chance that happens erstwhile many people think there's no chance of anything. The communicative of this chance must be torn out with claws, due to the fact that it is not frequently given on a plate, but besides about patience and consequences. The communicative of courage, which was not bravado but went hand in hand. The fact that large things are not born in 5 minutes, but in respective generations," he concluded.
- I'm sorry. present we have Poland free, sovereign, firmly anchored in Europe and the world. Poland is good, Poland is seen present by many citizens of countries, which we have observed with envy. The last 35 years – this time given to us by history, our parents and grandparents was a time of realization of the large dream of the breakthrough generation. Thanks to the entrepreneurship and industriousness of people and their readiness to take on hard challenges and frequently very hard sacrifices we have jumped not one, but respective epochs in these 35 years at once. The vast majority of us live more well present than any generation before us in the past of Poland – stressed the Marshal of the Sejm.
Simon Holovnia, on the occasion of his solemn convention in Gniezno, besides noted that “we have reason to hit ourselves in the chest.” "We must humbly note today, to our ancestors, before their generations' courts, that leaving millions of people outside the margin of large Polish changes is the large responsibility of the generation of breakthroughs. The responsibility that it is advanced time to fix, due to the fact that the harm then done passes from generation to generation. The full areas of inheritance of poorness and exclusion at all level: material, educational, communication, is our large shame – he continued.
- I'm sorry. We live in a strong and modern European country, which must yet let those who want and can work and develop. He must yet halt tying them with hundreds of unnecessary and stupid rules, but he must besides above all stand by those who request our support. It must equalize the chances of people from outside the large metropolises, not increase the differences between those who live in Warsaw and in the region town, specified as Gniezno. The next generations are to mention us as those who have provided Poland with an even development. What does that mean? Who left them a country of equal opportunity, not a banana republic. It is time to halt yet patching up the problems of decades with one-off shares, solutions sewn for subsequent elections. The judiciary, wellness care, education, institutions, their repair and building of their sustainability are not matters for term. These are matters per generation, not for a term," stressed the Marshal of the Sejm.
- I'm sorry. We are ready, brave and prudent. Today, we can proudly say, not only to ourselves here, in this room, who have the work for Poland, but to our children, erstwhile we return to them today, before the end of the next day, "Gaude Mater Polonia - enjoy Mother, Polish". Your daughters and your sons, fathers and mothers of your children will surely not disappoint you – Simon Holovnia concluded.
Another talker was Marshal of the legislature of Margaret Kidawa-Błońska.
- I'm sorry. 10 centuries ago Chrobry created something highly durable – Polish statehood. Statehood rooted in the European world. How crucial this event was, we see from today's perspective. Many times they tried to rip the crown off the head of the Polish eagle. It didn't work. Many times they tried to bring Poland out of Europe. This besides failed – said the Marshal of the Senate.
- I'm sorry. Looking present from Gniezno, the cradle of Polish statehood, in our thousand-year history, let us draw a lesson from the price we paid for interior divisions, for succumbing to demagoguery and populism. State strength, prosperity and improvement are not given erstwhile and for all. It is very easy to squander what the generations have built," she noted.
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska recalled that in 1966, erstwhile we celebrated the Millennium of Polish Baptism, Poland was a mediocre country, deprived of sovereignty and dependent on Moscow. "Today, after 60 years, erstwhile we celebrate the millennium of Chrobry's coronation, Poland is again 1 of the pillars of united Europe. We are a key associate of NATO, the largest defence alliance in the world. Poles, although inactive on the record, joined the club of the most prosperous societies in the world. Like our ancestors in the Chrobry Kingdom, present we can feel pride in the Polish state – stressed the Marshal of the Senate.
- Bolesław Chrobry left behind 1 word, the highest importance - the word Poland. In thousands of years, no 1 has spoken a more crucial word on our land. Boleslaw Chrobry fulfilled this word with his actions, and that is why 1,000 years later, we all, without exception, remember Bolesław, besides called the Great, with specified reverence," said Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Gniezno.
- I'm sorry. We are a large nation, we all form a political community of the Polish people together. And present we can say it, regardless of emotions and differences, with the conviction that no party, no politician has a monopoly on Polishness. Under the white-red flag there must be a place for all Polish and all Pole – the head of the Polish government continued.
The president of the Council of Ministers noted that "it was worth to declare a fresh national doctrine – the Piast doctrine without unnecessary patos". A doctrine based on strength, not on delusions, not only on dreams, aspirations, but besides on strength. What are dreams, aspirations, plans without strength in politics? No 1 understood it better than the hero of today's celebration, Boleslaw Chrobry. independency and affluence based on strength – this is our Piast doctrine and will be based on 3 pillars. We'll have the strongest army in the region. Don't tell me that's impossible. Yes, our army must be able to defy any threat, either from the east, west, south, meaningless, and we are ready to build the strongest army in this part of the world. We are doing this together, regardless of our views," said Donald Tusk.
During the Assembly, a resolution on commemoration of the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of the first kings of Poland was read by the Sejm and the Senate. At the end of the ceremony, the Polish Military Artistic squad performed the song “Bogurodac”.
After the solemn Assembly of Members and Senators on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry, talker of the Sejm Simon Holovnia laid flowers in front of the monument of the first crowned king of Poland.
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