We present a fragment of the book "The Secrets of the Presidential Palace" by Dominika Długosz, which premieres today, February 12.
Rumours about what the life of Andrzej Duda in the palace looked like came almost immediately after the fresh crew was locked behind the door. First of all, due to the fact that with Duda, people entered the palace who always meant small and felt that erstwhile they talk about the president's secrets, they themselves gain meaning. But besides due to the fact that the president's top secret was how he got there.
– Nobody truly knew how Jarosław Kaczyński came up with this thought due to the fact that Duda was not a natural candidate. In fact, he was a candidate with no chance of saying without making sense. – says PiS politician who co-founded Andrzej Duda's campaign.
– I know, you know, the organization knows he wasn't expected to win at all. After the organization immediately began to circulate rumors that Marta Kaczyńska was behind this nomination. That she was the 1 who convinced his uncle. They were to get very close to Andrzej erstwhile she came to her parents' grave in Krakow. Andrew always made certain he was there. And that relation resulted in a nomination.
A past of a Photograph
Marty Kaczyńska and Andrzej Duda have known each another for many years. Andrzej Duda was an authoritative at the palace of Lech Kaczyński and erstwhile he came there, he met a presidential daughter. At the time of the Smolensk disaster, he was at Krakowskie Przedmieście and then he was a support for Marty.
PiS politician: – He took care of her. It's human. After night, he went to the drugstores to get any medicine, to do everything that was besides hard for Marty, to aid decision around the procedures and the palace. He was loyal to president Kaczyński even after his death. After the ceremony in Wawel, they began to have even closer contact. all time Marta Kaczyńska came to Krakow, he organized her stay, spent time with her and her daughters, who are said to love the sense of humor of the president. These contacts were a lot. Although during the 5th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster, there was a serious sound between them.
“Andrew then overworked,” says PiS politician. – He came to the grave with a wreath with a sash of "Candidate for President". Marta felt that Andrew wanted to usage her and the anniversary, and her parents. And she didn't invitation tv cameras there, and he did.
A year later, there was an incident. Andrzej Duda was already a tenant of the Presidential Palace, and Marta Kaczyńska accompanied him during the anniversary ceremony in front of the palace. Agata Kornhauser-Dudy was not with the president. But there were pictures. Photojournalists captured President and Marta Kaczyńska in a hug that began to be interpreted in quite a few ways. At this ceremony Jarosław Kaczyński stood right next to the president and niece. erstwhile he saw the photos, he was going to be very unhappy.
– These pictures were precisely what they said they gave more than a 1000 words. The president saw seemingly more on them than they would like to show Andrew, and Marta. Jarosław didn't like what he saw, he got truly annoyed. Remember the rumors that Marta was behind his decision on Duda. possibly he abruptly started to fishy that there was more to it than friendship,” says the PiS politician.
Fig. Sławomir Kamiński / Wyborcza.pl Agency Andrzej Duda and Marta Kaczyńska (2016)
This time the case was serious adequate to be dealt with by the Catholic weekly “Good Week” in which Marta Kaczyńska wrote weekly columnaries. The paper described the full scene, while ensuring that it was a meaningless situation. “For Marty on April 10, she will always stay the most tragic day of her life. Painful experiences besides occurred this year. At the same time Marta remembered how much Andrzej Duda supported her at the time. In the heat of emotion, she stuck to the president. This intimate minute was immortalized by photojournalists. Whenever Marta came to Wawel, pray at her parents' grave, Andrzej Duda took care of her comfort. He'd buy a wreath, book a bed, set a agenda for his stay. Martha was a frequent guest of his family. Then Agata Duda met her. He has been observing the relationship of his husband and Kaczyńska for years. Relax. There's no reason to be jealous. Both ladies like and value each other”.
– It was an anti-crisis action – says the politician PiS, whom I ask about the pictures. – I only always uncertainty that erstwhile you gotta explain something so thoroughly, everyone is more curious in it. Besides, it happened at a very bad time. Agatha was not there, there have been rumors for any time, for Andrew and Agata it was most likely a mediocre year at all.
Agata was very much in the image with Marta. Look at those taken a year later. There are no ambiguities. You can’t stick to anything,” says PiS politician.
Indeed, at the time of the 7th anniversary of the disaster, the president was again accompanied by Marta Kaczyńska, but between them there is an older daughter, Marta Kaczyńska, Eve. This time there is no closeness of the president with Kaczyńska.
Agata Kornhauser-Duda inactive refused to decision to the Presidential Palace for almost a year after the president's swearing in, which only made rumors of serious marital problems go beyond the Law and Justice. Some politicians inside the organization speculated even unofficially that the couple were already ready for divorce before the 2015 campaign.
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– I never noticed any crisis, but I reportedly noted that Agata was besides convinced by the organization not to file this lawsuit, that in the run it would hurt and that she would hold off for a while—my interviewer, a PiS politician, as many others immediately point out that he himself did not see anything, but heard something there.
After winning the election, the president refused to decision to Krakowskie Przedmieście.
– She wanted to stay in Krakow. She insisted that she could usually work, that she had to make money, that it could someway be reconciled, that in the palace there was nothing to do, that she was not elected president. She was very strict about it,” said Dudy's friends.
The first lady, a German teacher, even tried to further teach the language, although she left school. In Krakow, they whispered about “corks at the president” due to the fact that she reportedly began teaching privately. In Warsaw, she was mainly seen during authoritative ceremonies. She besides flew with her husband abroad.
– She was gone a lot. I don't know if you can say that she lived in Krakow permanently, but she spent quite a few time there – says the palace worker.
At the time, the photograph of the presidential couple together shows no peculiar proximity between the first woman and the president. In relations with their public meetings, especially those of the little authoritative ones, which were to be part of the warming of the image of Duda, it can be noted that the presidential couple is indeed side by side, but surely not together.
– Agata is simply a truly good woman, but she just gets truly tense sometimes – explains the individual working in the palace. – She is raised in a small different aesthetics than Andrew, she does not enjoy the same jokes, she does not like the same events. But that is frequently the case among married couples.
In February 2016, the presidential couple hosted in Zakopane on the "Duda Fat Thursday". It's a regional event where the bagpipers and sometimes Andrzej Duda perform. The pictures from TVP show how stiff the first woman in contact with the president is. erstwhile Andrzej Duda tries to embrace her, Agata Kornhauser-Duda stands erect like a string erstwhile she tries to invitation her to the dance floor, she refuses.
"And, due to the fact that there was most likely an incidental there at the time," explains briefly the individual from the palace.
– At any point, however, the Duds decided to talk, due to the fact that abruptly things started to work out somehow," says PiS politician.
It was very crucial to travel together to presidential estates. First of all, to the Promnik, where the presidential couple were jumping out on weekends together. It is only a 20-minute chopper flight from Warsaw, and the freedom here is much greater than at the Presidential Palace. Forest, swimming pool, fitness room, jacuzzi. president Duda holds this presidential villa with a unique sentiment. Like the Vistula, where he regularly skis. In the summertime of 2016, the presidential couple besides found time for a vacation together in Jurat to make things work out somehow.
– These are rumours, but that's erstwhile it began to say that Agata was getting a "pension". specified a "charge for inconvenience" and for being a "first woman full-time" “A longtime PiS activist says.
Indeed, the Law of the Law of Justice in July 2016 first submitted a bill on remuneration for the President's spouse. But the same task included increases for MPs and Jarosław Kaczyński ordered him to be thrown in the garbage. The subject returned after the next presidential election erstwhile the Sejm passed the government introducing a wage for the first lady, but the legislature task rejected. There was no more rehearsal.
