On Saturday, June 30, we met the old and fresh PiS authorities. The president, as you know, remained the same. The issue of vice presidents was more emotional, mainly due to Przemysław Czarnek, who became 1 of them. Apart from him, Zbigniew Ziobro, Tobias Bocheński and Anna Krupka besides took the position of vice president of the party.
However, the surprise may have been Mariusz Kamiński – erstwhile head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs, erstwhile Minister of peculiar Services Coordinator, and inactive formerly erstwhile head of the CBA. Today's the Euro MP. He seemed a well-deserved man to Jarosław Kaczyński. And suddenly, this organization earthquake.
"The Biggest Sensation: the erstwhile minister lost the seat of vice president", "Kaminski without promotions from the party" – reported after the legislature "Fact" and "Election". "On the ballot, the name of the current Vice president of Law and Justice, MEP Mariusz Kamiński, did not appear" wrote "To the Thing".
Mariusz Kamiński was no longer Vice president of Law and Justice
– He drove all the way down as shortly as he could. In fact, he was the only 1 demoted. Michał Wójcik besides lost his position as vice president, but he took office for Ziobra at the time erstwhile Ziobro was ill. In advance, he was interim vice president of the Law and Justice. Now Ziobro's back, so no Uncle. This is simply a different situation – 1 of the politicians of the Law and Justice organization responds.
– Kamiński lost not only his position as vice president. He is no longer a associate of the Political Committee," he adds.
The PiS website has already changed. The name of Mariusz Kamiński is not among the 12 vice presidents of the party, nor among the members of the Political Committee.
– It's very uncommon to do that. This is simply a peculiar case. If someone's vice president, they are. The departures from the post of vice president were only erstwhile any politicians left the party. But remember, Mariusz Kamiński has not been cancelled. He just ran out of time. This took place in white gloves – another politician of the Law and Justice.
From Martyr to Degraded PiS Vice President
Let's remember. Not long ago, together with Michał Wąsik Mariusz Kamiński was a hero of PiS.
Prayers were held under the prisons in early 2024. People came with flags, rosaries, posters they proclaimed to the world: "A wall behind Kamiński and Wsik". In the intention of their release, Holy Masses were celebrated. due to them, even the Political Prisoners Defence Committee was created. The political right and right-wing net made them martyrs.
The image of Kamiński and Wąsik was even displayed by the Law and Justice on the National Army and Polish State Monument standing before the Sejm.
Today, a year and a half after those events, the question about Kamiński in PiS gives emergence to different emotions.
– That's erstwhile his name was chanted under prisons. He was a hero. And present there's an interesting reaction in the organization due to the fact that there's no outrage at all. The fact that he stopped being vice president went unobtrusive. This was mostly accepted with indifference, says 1 politician.
Sam points Kamiński hard:
– If we won the election, he wouldn't be a minister. If the PiS had come to power now, I'm certain he wouldn't be the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs. The president had previously wanted to cancel it twice, but felt it would be bad. He then refused to give him a seat on the EP's letters, but yet he was forced due to the fact that Kamiński became a victim of Bodnar. He was a martyr, and he got one. It didn't seem right not to get it. However, the president had very large reservations about him.
Another politician says: – Those events made Kaminski and Wąsik an advertisement. The fact that they got seats on the EP's letters was a consequence of what happened to them after the 2023 election. If not for the fresh power decided to take care of them, Kamiński could have been removed faster.
He points out that Kamiński was no longer the alleged two-week government of Mateusz Morawiecki in November 2023. – So it was seen as an image burden for our government. Then he got into the EP. And now the president has demoted it – he says.
Let us remind you that in April this year the EP waived the immunity of Kamiński and Wąsik. “In my opinion, his mandate in the EP is lost,” says 1 of the interviewors in the PiS.
"This is the tendency that the president applies to all congress"
Why did Mariusz Kamiński halt being vice president now?
– Something's exhausted. Something's been hanging up for a while. So far, Kamiński and Wójcik have been driving by force of momentum, occupying various functions. And it reached the point that it was time for verification – we hear in the PiS.
One politician, however, claims that Kamiński has entered a certain trend in the party.
– The decapitation occurred not only in his case. He ceased to be vice-president, and 2 another politicians, including Euro MPs, ceased to be on the PiS Political Committee: Michał Dworczyk and Małgorzata Gosievska. This is the tendency that the president applies to all congress. due to the fact that Euro MPs are envious, they get free of respective Euro MPs from the Political Committee," he says.
This was, for example, in 2021. At that time, Euro MPs Beata Mazurek, Elżbieta Rafalska, Krzysztof Jurgiel, Ryszard Czarnecki, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk did not enter the political committee of the Law and Justice. Their MPs were replaced. Wp.pl wrote at the time that it was connected with the regulation of seats on the committee for representatives of the EP.
Jacek Sasin, erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister of the Law and Justice Government, now on Radio Zet referred to the decision of the legislature in Przydryda: – There was overrepresentation of Euro MPs in the organization authorities. Tobias Bochenski is the only Euro MP who has been very clearly promoted. To appreciate his large political talent is the large hope of our formation.
However, about the failure of the position of vice-president of the organization by Euro MP Kamiński, our interlocutor adds: "It has been gathering for a long time. erstwhile the president was traveling around regions, in each of them locals complained about the Ministry of abroad Affairs, the police. It was common. The president was furious.
"President submits motion to elect individual as organization vice president"
How do you become a vice president? As PiS policy explains, the selection process for the most crucial positions in the organization is as follows:
– The president at the gathering of the political council submits a request to elect a individual as vice president of the party, secretary-general, associate of the political committee. The Political Council, to which all Members and Senators belong, chooses. This is not possible without the President's request. According to the party's statutes, only the president shall submit specified applications. Vice Presidents are besides with automatic members of the political committee.
There was no motion this time. Has Kamiński fallen into disfavor?
– He fell into it about 5 or 7 years ago. but the president didn't want to make any crucial changes in his sector. It's typical for the president to postpone executions in time – 1 of the politicians of the Law and Justice organization reacts.
PiS politician about Kamiński: "His position weakened for years"
Mariusz Kamiński became Vice president of Law and Justice in 2011. In power for 4 years there were POs.
Kamiński has been head of CBA since 2006. In 2009, it was cancelled by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. He was celebrated for starting a gambling scandal. In 2011, he faced a parliamentary enquiry committee that investigated the case.
– It was a period of his glory. He was a victim, a martyr, recalls 1 of the politicians of the Law and Justice. Then Kamiński had a strong position in the party.
– His position weakened for years. The president was furious at him for what he did at the Ministry of abroad Affairs. For being practically incapable of grasping the police, which was a state in the state. For the fact that the police did not respond to the aggression of demonstrators against the PiS during various ceremonies, says the PiS politician.
He adds that any promotions in the police department were not liked. Kamiński was besides going to be exposed after the election, erstwhile after the failure of the PiS the president showed that the right hand unites. From their point of view, it was an crucial action. There was a union with Sovereign Poland. And before that, with Republicans.
– At the Political Council, Kamiński and Wąsik protested the union with Republicans and then voted against. It was a hit on the president's plans. Here it announces that there is unity, that we are moving forward. And here's specified a fuss – we hear.
Another politician estimates: – I know that the president misjudged his work in the ministerial position. He didn't think he had it under control. It was a negative assessment of the work, associated with a full deficiency of control over the structures entrusted. Losing proportions in what you do.
As our interlocutors point out, Kamiński's failure of position occurred erstwhile respective young politicians became vice presidents of the Law and Justice Office. And you can see from these nominations that there is simply a rejuvenation of the PiS.
