The tusk in Angola has failed? erstwhile Head of Protocol: I bent erstwhile I saw it

Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with an avalanche of criticism for having no coat and tie at Luanda Airport during his authoritative welcome. The right is boiling and thundering with shame. The head of the government points the net hard. Jan Wojciech Piekarski, erstwhile Ambassador and b. Head of the Diplomatic Protocol of the Ministry of abroad Affairs in an interview with the subject examines this situation


The Prime Minister's outfit at Angola Airport lit the Polish net and the right. From comments, it is inactive a day after Donald Tusk visited Africa. How do you take all the fuss around the head of government's clothes?

Jan Wojciech Piekarski, erstwhile ambassador, b. Head of Diplomatic Protocol of the Ministry of abroad Affairs, lecturer and author of diplomatic protocol textbooks: I'd like to point out that these are 2 different things. On the 1 hand, protocol. And on the another hand – substantive, political. This chance is being utilized to aid the Prime Minister, especially in the unfriendly media. From a substantive point of view, this does not have any more applicable meaning.

Let's think about what happened. You saw a image of the Prime Minister on a red carpet without a coat and a tie and...

I'm crooked. For me, as erstwhile chief of diplomatic protocol, these things are a mess. The average thing is you travel on a plane in a loose suit. I have a full bunch of pictures of politicians in sweatpants who travel on a plane like that, and they go out to journalists and talk to them.

Unfortunately, after a multi-hour flight by plane, any politicians feel that they can go on an airfield plate in the same outfit as they made the trip, which is not advisable. Then you gotta keep a certain standard. Especially erstwhile it is seen that soldiers and a typical of local authorities are expected on the airfield plate, and I think that besides the Polish outpost.

So what happened, Mr. Ambassador? What went wrong? What's missing?

My wife erstwhile told me about president Kwasniewski's visit to Luxembourg. She was on the plane at the time. The expression given by the Luxembourg Court was that a hat was indicated in specified authoritative meetings for ladies.

However, erstwhile the ladies looked out the window of the plane and saw that the welcome individual was without a hat, of course they left the hats on the plane.

Same here. You gotta look out the window. This is the moment. By the time they get to the stairs, you see who's at the airport. Then there's inactive time to wear a jacket.

Prime Minister Tusk is simply a very experienced politician. It's hard to believe he didn't look out the window of the plane. Didn't he see the barrier waiting for him?

We don't blame politics, we blame the environment. A politician has the right to be thoughts somewhere else. He is more focused on the forthcoming talks and on the meetings he arrives at. On the another hand, it is the work of the chief of protocol to remind him, "Premise, we are leaving. At the airport there is simply a half-gal reception, you request a tie and a jacket".

Would you respond immediately?

I'm sure. In specified situations, erstwhile the plane was already standing on an airstrip, as the steps were coming up, I was always – as the chief of protocol – with the head of the delegation and passed the last clues related to what we would see as we would walk down the stairs. In general, I did not gotta pay attention to the outfits, due to the fact that it has always been prepared and discussed earlier.

In this case there was most likely no chief of protocol on the plane, due to the fact that at the same time there was a visit by president Nawrocki to Prague, and the regulation is that then the chief of protocol accompanies the president and the deputy chief of protocol to the Prime Minister.

Perhaps the Prime Minister's surroundings lacked the assertiveness to draw attention to this? To say that you gotta adjust to the norm, to then avoid stingy comments?

However, I imagine that specified an experienced politician automatically grabs a coat at a time like this.

It should remind him of this, due to the fact that he's busy with crucial things, not everyone he has to remember. That's what the chief of protocol is for, the deputy, the press spokesman, or the secretaries who say, "Prime Minister, they're going to be throwing themselves at you like hyenas. You gotta change."

And they threw. On the net of the dump present we have a meme dump about Donald Tusk – as he peels potatoes at the airport, pushes a wheelbarrow... Politicians of the Law and Law and Justice are smitten with shame. Ms Anita Czerwińska, for example, said, "What a contempt for hosts and shame before the full world." Is that a shame?

That's besides much. The planet is not curious in what costume the Prime Minister of Poland got off at the Angolan airport, but in what European leaders have agreed whether they gotta hand over to the main negotiators on Ukraine, that is president Trump and Zelensk.

Mr Maciej Wąsik, MEP of PiS, stated that "Donald Tusk looks like he was going buying for a discount alternatively than representing Poland during his authoritative visit". Do you agree?

Nope. It's like the Prime Minister pinching, like erstwhile he wore his coat and went for mushrooms. There is no doubt, however, that 1 of the advisers on protocolar or pictorial matters should draw the Prime Minister's attention to not giving the partners any reason to laugh. In his case, it started with a cap in Peru. Therefore, I repeat, the Prime Minister should avoid situations that give ammunition to distract from the substance of the substance and attack it.

How could Donald Tusk's outfit be picked up by the president and another people welcoming him to Angola?

A small surprised, but without any political accents, that the Polish Prime Minister underestimates us and does not appreciate that he disregards Africa and people from another countries. I absolutely don't think that's what I think. They just picked it up so he could get any remainder after his journey from London, go to the hotel, get dressed up.

And it was. At authoritative meetings, he was in an authoritative outfit. At all kinds of authoritative meetings, Prime Minister Tusk is dressed very decently and this must be stressed. Similarly, erstwhile it appears in the field erstwhile it appears in jackets. It's not dressing up in pseudo-military jackets, it's just a looser outfit, without a shirt, a tie and a coat.

Do diplomatic situations like those at Angolan airport happen often?

Nope. But erstwhile it happens, the hula is on the Internet.

What does the diplomatic protocol even say about this?

This is more the norm of savoir-vivre than protocol. If it were a landing at an airport where the Prime Minister would not welcome the President, but the Ambassador and individual from the local protocol, it would be a completely different formula. However, at the minute erstwhile there is simply a red carpet, a trooper and a typical of the Angolan administration, it is known that the welcome is not entirely private, but official.

It is not a full gala like a state visit, but 1 that is utilized for the incoming head of government. And you gotta adapt to that.