Case of Agnieszka Kamińska
Among the fresh employees of the IPN was Dr Agnieszka Kamińska, who served as president of Polish Radio from 2020 to 2023. Kamińska has a philological and postgraduate education in journalism and worked in TVP Historia before taking a position in PR and was the vice-chief of Polish Radio 24.
According to Virtual Media, erstwhile Agnieszka Kamińska took the position of president of Polish Radio, Jedynka and Trika had a 5.3% marketplace share, but at the end of her tenure, Jedynka had 5.0% and the 3 fell to 1.8%. Since 12 August, Agnieszka Kamińska has served as the manager of Central past halt in Warsaw.
MPN spokesperson Rafał Leśkiewicz reported that Kamińska has the right qualifications and is scientifically active, having a doctor's degree. In IPN, it is to be liable for the effective implementation of the statutory tasks of the institute in the field of historical education. The recently established IPN office will take care of the activities of Central halt past im. president Lech Kaczyński, a modern historical education centre that was launched on May 6.
However, the word of office of Agnieszka Kamińska can be summarised as an example of incorrect management of public media, which did not take into account nuances, differences or principles of impartiality. prof. Jacek Dąbala of the Jagiellonian University assessed that the way of managing and reasoning about public media presented by Kamińska was definitely incorrect. According to him, the way Radio was moving was besides biased, which made the Kaminski word not favorable to the radio market.
Drelich and Zarzątki
As we could read in Gazeta Wyborcza, at the end of the Polish People's Republic, young Dariusz Drelich was a delegate to the provincial convention of the Patriotic National Revival Movement, an organization founded by General Jaruzelski during the martial law. He belonged to the city council of PRON, which supported the introduction of martial law and supported the socialist authorities of the Polish People's Republic. shortly after, Drelich began working with Lech Wałęsa and then sought a parliamentary mandate from the KLD list, which was led by Donald Tusk.
Drelich besides went to the IPN. He served as Deputy manager of the Administrative and economical Office. Many experts, both historians and erstwhile activists, wonder that Drelich is so diligently trying to decommunise public space, at the same time possessing specified a image stain.
Dr. Marcin Zarzecki, erstwhile president of the Polish National Foundation since mid 2019. The Polish National Foundation, founded in 2016 by 17 companies of the Treasury, aimed to build the Polish brand by exploiting the possible of these companies. However, it rapidly became the subject of controversy and criticism for promoting the actions of the ruling party, including the acquisition of the yacht "I love Poland".
In February, all members of the PFN board resigned. Marcin Zarzecki presently serves as Deputy manager of past Stops Office at IPN.
The old thought of eliminating IPN
Already in November 2023 Vladimir Czarzasty, leader of the Left, in an interview with TVN24 advocated the abolition of CBA and IPN, stressing that these institutions should be liquidated. He recalled that the Left did not support their vocation from the beginning.
The Citizen Coalition then besides supported this request, although earlier in 2013, erstwhile the SLD presented a draft law eliminating the CBA, Donald Tusk's government defended the existence of this institution. In 2021, Donald Tusk on his social media expressed his support for the liquidation of CBA and IPN, claiming that these institutions had lost their first functions.
On the another hand, 3rd Way politicians, especially PSL, were skeptical of this idea, ensuring that the liquidation of IPN and CBA would not be part of their coalition agreement. Miłosz Motyka of PSL pointed out that alternatively of liquidation, they advocate the depoliticisation and improvement of these institutions.
