In a nutshell, the Cabinet Council is simply a Council of Ministers gathering chaired by the President. However, there is no Prime Minister's competence: the president asks, ministers answer, but the head of state has no influence on the government's decisions. In fresh years, presidents have seldom convened councils. Aleksander Kwasniewski He did it 8 times in a decade, Lech Kaczyński four times, a Andrzej Duda - Just twice. no of these meetings were recorded in the collective memory, no of them had penetrated the public debate. This time it was expected to be different. It was all about the show. Karol Nawrocki He clearly wanted to scold ministers and act as if we were surviving in France, where the president has his prime minister. A political scientist talked about it. Prof. Tomasz Słomka in an interview with ‘Rzeczpospolita’: – Karol Nawrocki most likely has a fresh concept, and in it the Cabinet Council is not so much a platform for consultation between the government and the president, but a way for the president to submit to the government, which is incompatible with the essence of this constitutional entity. Half of the sitting was opened to the media, seemingly so that the caught quotes could later circulate around the network and build the President's image as relentless towards Tusk. Strong words came out at first. – When it is read that we have 150 billion PLN deficit, it is for me a clear alarm signal that something is wrong. The most alarming are the holes in taxation revenue, VAT, CIT and excise duties said Nawrocki. The problem is that he had previously vetoed a taxation increase, which undermined the consistency of his arguments.
Donald Tusk counterattacked rapidly and efficiently: – I would like to correct any of the signals that have emerged in the President's statements. There are any inaccuracies that may arise from the deficiency of information or from the political intentions of the various persons involved. I would like to reassure the President. Calm down by a substantive explanation. Public finances – we have a reason for satisfaction. With respect to the departure from the ghastly Pisa expensive, present we have 1 of the lowest inflation, 3%. We have inherited the economical situation, and this affects the soundness of the budget. present we have 1 of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU. What has been achieved in these 2 years is evidence results. The concern of Nawrocki about finance was besides undermined by economists.
Prof. Marcin Piątkowski wrote on X: – President Karol Nawrocki calls the Cabinet Council next day to discuss, among others, the "crisis of public finances" erstwhile he proposes solutions which will deepen this crisis at the same time. The president proposes, among another things, to rise the taxation threshold to PLN 140 thousand, to increase access to household benefits for entrepreneurs and to relieve incomes of families from 2+ children from taxation burden (up to a limit of PLN 140 1000 per year), which: 1. DISCOUNTS the gross of the state by 19.1 billion per year". The president besides struck the government on a "half-year delay" in the construction of the CPK and the atomic power plant, and suggested that Tusk's cabinet was simply faking opposition to the Mercosur Agreement, while in practice favouring Berlin. He besides announced that he would build a "blocking minority" in the European Council. He defended his veto against the Ukrainian Aid Act, explaining that there was a consensus in the electoral run that the benefits were to be for workers only. Tusk reacted methodically. He answered each accusation with numbers and examples, which made the President's staff not an easy victory. After the gathering the Prime Minister said: – I am very pleased with its progress, due to the fact that we are looking for common fields of action with the President, which mainly concern global safety and policy. We're not going to bury those differences. With the president of Poland we must and will proceed to look for these common fields. Today's Council was rather a successful attempt. It should not be amazing that the PiS Members have unanimously recognised their President's victory. – Even his eye didn't decision erstwhile he missed the truth. Tusk explains the advanced deficit in defence spending. The government of the same Tusk brings MON to insolvency, forcing the ministry to pay the debt of the Armed Forces Support Fund from the defence budget – he wrote Mariusz Błaszczak On X.
After the public part of the session was closed, the head of the President's Chancellery went to the journalists Zbigniew Bogucki, stating that the government and the president are "remaining in divergences" and that Nawrocki will anticipate written explanations. However, it was amazing that there was no talk of abroad policy at all – especially in the context of the president's upcoming visit to the White House. Marcin Policz == sync, corrected by elderman == – The president spoke to the Prime Minister during the last meeting, about abroad policy as well, this dialog continued and will continue. I do not regulation out that specified meetings may be soon. On the another hand, the Cabinet Council deals with what has been announced – economic, infrastructure and reasoning about the state budget, due to the fact that it is hollow as Swiss cheese. The first – although surely not last – Karol Nawrocki's Cabinet Council highlighted the deep conflict between the president and the government. 1 can get the impression that Nawrocki, scolding ministers, wanted to show Poles what work in the presidential strategy would look like, in which the Prime Minister answers to the head of state. This is simply a political experiment: an effort to make a “French scene” in Polish realities.
The question is, isn't this method overheating? past already knows akin cases – just remind “Sejmflix” Simona Holowna. In the first months the full Poland was delighted with it, but the magic rapidly broke. It may be akin with the vetoes of Nawrocki and subsequent Cabinet Councils. If the president reaches for them besides often, Poles can get bored with a performance and recognise that it is only political theatre – not real power.
