Security for the President

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Today at the Presidential Palace there was a gathering of president Karol Nawrocki with the head of the MON Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of peculiar Services coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak and the heads of peculiar services. This was the first chance in months to have a direct discussion in this group on the issues applicable in the era of expanding safety threats.

After over 3 hours of talks, president Rafał Leśkiewicz said that the gathering had a “constructive and substantive character” and afraid “the most crucial issues related to the safety of the Republic”. The military chief was to perceive to the information and assessments provided by the heads of service, and the conversation covered both external and interior threats. Leśkiewicz besides announced that akin conferences are to be held periodically, which can be read as an effort to organize information relations between the Presidential Palace and the structures liable for security.

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Conclusions for further action

The national defence minister besides spoke after the meeting. Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz assessed the talks as "long and very substantive" and stressed that they afraid both the current threats and the long-term functioning of the services. In his statement, there was besides a subject to the disputed issue of officer nominations, which in fresh months have become 1 of the main tension points between the president and the government. The head of the MON announced that the conclusions on this substance would be referred back to the president and expressed his cautious optimism about their further action.

Working and Symbolic

President Nawrocki's relations with the government, and in peculiar with the ministers liable for safety and peculiar services, have remained tense and marked by a dispute about the scope of constitutional competences since the beginning of his term. Nawrocki consistently signaled that he wanted to play an active function in the field of State security, but his initiatives have repeatedly collided with the hard position of the government, which emphasizes that, under the laws, real supervision of services is exercised by the president of the Council of Ministers. The autumn effort by the superior of the armed forces to convene a briefing with the heads of service ended in a fiasco precisely due to this, which was widely commented on by the media as a demonstration of limitations on the real origin of the Presidential Palace.

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Tensions were aggravated by Nawrocki's decision to refuse to sign 136 officers' nominations before the Holy Independence, and then to refuse to grant state awards to service officers. The second movement met with the sharp reaction of peculiar Services Minister-Coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak, who publically described the President's decision as "failure", highlighting its demotivating impact on the environment of the services during increased safety threats. In this context, the Thursday gathering of the head of state with the Minister of Defence and the Heads of Service is not only working but besides symbolic – it is an effort to reduce the temperature of the dispute and reconstruct organization cooperation.

Marcin Ogdowski

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