Speech by the president of Poland at the National safety Council

Dear Marshal, Dear Prime Minister, Prime Ministers, Dear Ministers, Dear talker of Parliamentary Clubs, Parliamentary Circles, Dear Members,

I convened a gathering of the National safety Council due to the fact that Poland is present facing decisions of fundamental importance for our security, decisions that will affect not only the coming months, but for decades.

There are moments erstwhile the highest authorities of the Republic must be present, must act and take full work for the affairs of our Homeland. Today's National safety Council is specified a time.

The main object of our gathering was the condition and future of Polish security, including the strategical importance of the permanent presence of the United States troops in the territory of the Republic. These are matters of the highest national importance – I think we all agree – issues that require responsibility, predictability and cooperation of all major institutions of the state. It is besides with the ongoing process of updating the National safety Strategy, which must be urgently completed.

However, the actions of the government from last Friday – the government headed by Prime Minister Donald Tuski – have made us meet present under unprecedented circumstances; in a situation of serious constitutional crisis which we cannot go through indifferently. Where the most serious allegations concerning the illegality of actions taken by the government against the Constitutional Court are justified.

On Friday 30 October, there was an unprecedented situation in the 3rd Republic after 1989. A political decision of the government was decided to illegally take over the Constitutional Court. This was tried utilizing my absence in Poland.
Therefore, as you know, I interrupted my abroad journey and returned to Warsaw. I felt it was my work to be in the country at a time of specified a serious threat to the stableness of the Polish legal order. The government chose the night before the crucial Day of All Saints for Poles to bring people who consider themselves judges of the Constitutional Court to the Court of Justice, although according to the law these judges are not what I communicated to those people on Friday night. These persons under police escort give themselves the right to suspend judges and presume their duties, acting without any legal basis.

Such a position – I besides want it to sound – is confirmed by the first president of the ultimate Court, the president of the ultimate Administrative Court and the president of the ultimate Bar. Many experts in the field of systemic law besides powerfully confirm the deficiency of basis for action.

Worst of all, this was done utilizing police officers and the State Protection Service. I just saw the police unions. There is no uncertainty that police officers know that they have been utilized to carry out a political scenario, which is very disturbing; I am looking at the Minister of the Interior.

In Poland there are inactive mechanisms for common control of authorities. It is, of course, the constitutional control of the passed law, the independent judiciary, and it is besides the presidential veto and parliamentary work of the government. These institutions execute different functions, but service 1 fundamental principle: no power can be unlimited. These mechanisms are not an obstacle to democracy, but they are a safeguard and so they must never be subject to their immediate political need. The regulation of law – although we all realize it – cannot be restored by methods which themselves grossly violate the law.

I described these actions of the government before the introduction to the main discussion, so that we would all be aware of the systemic position we are in. However, we cannot neglect to identify the individual liable for the full situation.

The full work for all policeman under the Court, for all illegal activities specified as suspension of judges, illegal orders, entry to the Court from the side of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, is borne by 1 man – the man who is present in this area to whom I am smiling, although his actions I do not understand, I do not accept, and against them I am speaking; it is Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Prime Minister,

In your case, in my opinion, it is not only a crime on the Constitution of the Republic, it is more than a mistake. The Prime Minister already knows that he has made a mistake, and we both know that present there are no erstwhile allies beside you, and you are left with only violence, which is equally disturbing.

In order to realise its ideological fiction, the Prime Minister destroys Poland's image abroad, which is besides the subject of public discussion in various parts of the world, scares investors, undermines the foundations of social ties and social trust. erstwhile people cannot get to a doctor, the prices of fuel at stations are unacceptable – although my signature under the law was to make a situation in which these prices would be appropriate, that is not the case; these prices are inactive not appropriate – erstwhile the debt reaches evidence and threatens the stableness of the state levels, the Prime Minister decides on the eve of Christmas to take over the independent institution of the Polish state. That's not how Democrats work.

Dear Prime Minister,

I want to tell you - and all of you on the National safety Council - that I will not, of course, go over this. I will usage all my prerogatives, as well as the legitimacy and mandate given to me by society to halt this effort to overthrow the constitutional order of the Republic. Of course, mercy tells us to forgive, I am a man of mercy, but before forgiveness we must confess the guilt, and we must besides regret, and retreat from those pictures which the Prime Minister has seen the full planet through. I look forward, Sir Prime Minister, to remembering, repair and surrendering matters to Poles.

We have independency Day ahead of us. I anticipate that before him, before the beginning of the week in which we as a nation will celebrate together, the Prime Minister will be ready to limit the impulses of his power and halt the illegal activities of his representatives in the Constitutional Court building.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

However, we must not let the deficiency of interior stableness of the state to affect our most crucial tasks, namely the protection of citizens' safety. There is no external safety – it is apparent – without interior security, these are inseparable conditions.

We must remember that safety is not given to us erstwhile and for all. We know especially present that strengthening alliances requires regular work, that credibility is built for years, and unfortunately it can be weakened overnight. After the end of the period of stabilisation of the geopolitical turn of the century, Poland must present be prepared to operate in conditions of long-term threat, strong force on society, critical infrastructure and economy, and to respond and interact independently with allies. Therefore, I will now decision on to the most crucial issues for our gathering – to the issues listed in the invitation, which was addressed to you – i.e. to cooperation and strategical partnership on the subject of American bases in Poland.


For years Poland has been making efforts – many environments have made this effort – to guarantee that the presence of US troops in our country is as durable, credible and strategical as possible. This is 1 of the pillars of deterrence of a possible aggressor, an crucial component of the safety of the east flank of NATO, and is besides a evidence of trust between Poland and the United States. But allied trust, as we all know, is not based solely on signed papers or declarations; it is besides based on the belief that the partner is simply a stable, liable and able country to meet commitments. Therefore, today's discussion will be about the United States' military presence in Poland, including the prospects for its permanent strengthening. It is about concrete actions, deadlines and the preparation of decisions that we all gotta take.

So present I anticipate from all of us – from the government side, from the Prime Minister – concrete information on the degree of implementation of preparations for the permanent presence of allied troops, prepared legal acts and resources essential for the implementation of this project, which is fundamental, essential for cooperation with our strategical partner.
We must, of course, adopt an even higher level of commitment and affluence in this process, due to the fact that since I obtained a political declaration during my visit to Washington to the president and during respective another talks it has been over a year, and in fresh times this commitment of our strategical partner has already been confirmed respective times at different levels. So we request to have a concrete discussion about what it looks like to prepare the full legislative process, what our advancement is.

There is simply a window of chance for the implementation of a permanent U.S. military base in Poland and I anticipate more government activity in this matter. This is all the more crucial due to the fact that since September 2025 the Republic of Poland has been at a peculiar time. Then came the climax of the actions carried out by the Russian Federation – a minute that we can call culmination, and God forbid that this was the culmination of the hybrid actions of the Russian Federation. More than 13 months have passed since Russian drones violated the Polish airspace, further efforts are being taken to destabilise our security, and this will besides be the secret part of the National safety Council meeting.

The aggressor, although acting below the threshold of war, must be effectively deterred. No form of escalation may seem profitable to the Russian Federation. This will be possible if the possible to deter our army and the possible of allies present in our territory is importantly strengthened.

Ladies and gentlemen,

We besides request action to redefine the strategical framework. The NATO 3.0 concept, the improved deterrence and defence architecture of the alliance must be reflected in the fresh National safety Strategy. The results of the work of the National safety Office and the Ministry of National Defence in the form of a draft fresh strategy have already been communicated. Thank you very much to Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamish, Minister Bartosz Grodecki, all the employees and colleagues of the Ministry of National Defence and the National safety Office for bringing this strategy to the point where we are. Now these effects must be adopted urgently by the government and submitted for my approval. This is the request for the safety of the Republic of Poland – we request the National safety Strategy. all hold is an unused chance for a fresh strategy of command and command and hazard for the right place of Poland in the Allied safety Architecture.

Of course, the safety of Poland does not supply declarations – they are provided by decisions made on time, in accordance with the law and consistently implemented. Investments in safety and defence must not be subject to risks of political discretion or conditionality.
That is why, of course, I am waiting – I think the nation is waiting – for the Council of Ministers to adopt an updated National safety Strategy, which is the starting point for another implementing documents. I think the Polish Army is waiting too; I look towards General Kukuła.

Honorable National safety Council,

history has taught us that independency can be lost not only due to the external advantage of the opponent. It can besides be weakened by its own irresponsibility, neglect of institutions and inability to interact on fundamental issues. present we are no longer doomed to repeat mistakes from our past. We are a associate of the North Atlantic Alliance, the European Union, we have our own armed forces, we have a strong society and immense economical potential. We besides have allies and opportunities which earlier generations of Poles could only dream about. However, all these assets require 1 thing – the work of the state.

If the Prime Minister – and I want it to sound powerfully – thanks to Mr. Berk and your 2 names he wants to release himself from this work and put our Homeland at hazard due to the fact that it requires this political interest, I inform that this is the incorrect way and undermines the work of the country and the resilience of the Polish society. We have matters we request to address – specified as the National safety strategy – and the dedication of this security, responsibility, resilience, the presence of American troops in Poland due to people who are not judges of the Constitutional Court, is profoundly irresponsible in my recognition, and the price we pay as the Republic of Poland for this is unacceptable.

Prime Minister,

We Poles request present a country where politicians realize that their mandate is temporary – I look at all of you and besides at myself – and the interests of the Republic must be permanent. We request a state in which the difference of views among all of us does not mean that common institutions should be undermined, that the police should be politically exploited, including around the Constitutional Court.

We request a state in which even the most severe dispute is settled in accordance with the law, not by the escalation of the force we have seen in the last days in the Republic.
I do not anticipate political differences to vanish at this table; this has been impossible for decades, as I look at you. I'm shorter in this craft than you are. I anticipate something much more crucial – that we will all be able to admit the boundary behind which the organization business ends, and work for Homeland safety begins. In fundamental matters, the state must be able to act independently of the political conflict. And present we will discuss specified matters in secret.

Power passes faster than we all think. Governments change, political majority come and go, and the Republic must continue. And present we found ourselves at a time like this. Poland is owned by no political environment, no politics, no party. It is besides not owned by any government, it is not owned by the party. It is the Republic – a common thing of the full nation, which is simply a sovereign and which besides speaks on crucial political matters in the streets in cities and in Polish villages, and we should remember that.

In order for Poland to continue, it must be a strong law, strong institutions, credible towards allies, safe internally and safe externally. I feel that this is what the Poles who are watching us anticipate today. This is what the Polish state requires.
The general and Polish military besides know perfectly well that there is no strong army without a strong state and without a strong society; and there is no safe Poland without the work of those who regulation it.

So I have a deep conviction and hope that although in these 2 points, which will be the subject of our discussion, we will be able to discuss the safety of Poles and Poles, due to the fact that it seems to be the most crucial 1 today. This is our only goal that we gotta pursue: free, independent and sovereign Poland.

Thank you for coming, and I encourage you to open and substantive discussions on what is most important, namely Poland's security.

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