The swearing-in of the president of the Republic of Poland

The Republic of Poland is the common good of all citizens, and the superior authority in the Republic of Poland is the nation! Therefore, welcome – welcome to the Polish nation within the borders of the Republic and beyond the borders of the Republic. Welcome thousands, dozens of [thousand] citizens and citizens of the Polish state who came to Warsaw present and whom I passed under the Polish Sejm. I welcome all those millions of voters who elected their president of the Republic of Poland, who took his oath just moments ago. Thank you all for your votes, for your support. I would besides like to thank those who did not vote for me and who took part in this democratic electoral act in connection with the celebration of our democracy on 1 June.



Dear Mr President,

Mr President,

Dear Marshal of the Sejm,

Madam Marshal of the Senate,

Prime Minister,

Dear Members of the National Assembly,

Excellency,

Eminences,

Generals,

Ladies and gentlemen!



The free choice of free nation has put me before you today. He put me before you against electoral propaganda, lies, against political theatre and against the contempt I met with on my way to the office of president of the Republic of Poland. And I forgave and, as a Christian, with the peace of heart and with the bottom of my heart, I forgive all this contempt and what happened during the elections. As a national community, we have this large value of attachment to Christian values and identity. That shouldn't change. And in Christian values, love and mercy for another man is 1 of the basic elements.

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But these elections and June 1 besides sent a strong voice of the sovereign to the full political class, choosing me as president of the Republic of Poland. It is simply a voice that we cannot proceed to regulation like this and that Poland should not look like this today. It is – dear Members – the voice of Poles and Poles that they want politicians to fulfil the promises made during the campaign. 1 June is simply a clear signal that Poles want to fulfil election promises, want to choose their president in a sense of freedom and do not succumb to political propaganda. I say this – ladies and gentlemen – only due to the fact that on 1 June we all one more time found that the president of the Republic of Poland must be nothing more than the voice of citizens and citizens of the Republic. As president of Poland, I will be the voice of the Polish people. And that's my job.

And I will not surprise you with my political agenda for the next 5 years. Yes, Poles anticipate politicians to fulfill their promises. And I made my promises in "Plan 21", in the programme for Poland for the 21st century – in a program that received 10.5 million votes of voters. Therefore, my speech present must not be a surprise to anyone – dear Members. For I intend to be consistent and determined in the implementation of Plan 21.

And in this plan it is clear that I am a large supporter and will support all initiatives, and by my decisions I will strive for the Polish state to be ambitious, to be a place of development, to be a place of large breakthrough projects specified as the Central Communication Port, specified as Polish Roads, Polish Ports. The programme I will implement is simply a programme of sustainable improvement of the Polish state. Yes, we are all from Polish towns and villages. And there is no Poland A and Poland B. And that won't change in my next 5 years.

“Plan 21” and my programme is “no” for illegal migration, “yes” for Polish gold, “no” for the euro. As president of Poland, I will not let the retirement age of women and men to rise. I say, ladies and gentlemen, that is all, although I am aware that the election run has given a chance to get to know Plan 21, so I will not list all 21 points. But I want to emphasise that I firmly believe that my presidency will reconstruct religion in the promises made. For 5 years all hour, all day, all week with all decision, I will fulfil my obligations to my constituents and to those who participated in the elections.


Ladies and gentlemen!

I stand before you aware of the large task and the large work that stands before me. But I stand here, in the Polish Sejm, conscious of the divisions in Polish political life, in Polish social life. I want to make it clear that I will not make my decisions according to these divisions and according to political divisions, but against these divisions, always making a decision that refers to the voice of the Polish people, not to political or organization emotions. These have not been curious in me for 42 years and will not be curious in me as president of Poland. In my decisions, I will be the voice of a nation faithful to my program. This – ladies and gentlemen – I warrant everyone.

So I will be the voice of those who want sovereign Poland, Poland, which is in the European Union, but Poland, which is not the European Union, is only Poland – and will stay Poland. Both in discussions with the Polish government, in my decisions and internationally, I will, of course, support relations within the European Union, but I will never agree that the European Union should take over Poland's competences, especially in matters that are not enshrined in the European treaties, and those should not change. Yes, I will be the voice of citizens who want sovereignty.
I will be the voice of those who want Poland to be safe. And Poland's safety begins with all private soldier – with his equipment, his consciousness, his fortitude of spirit and his heart. I will be the voice of Polish soldiers and Polish officers. I will support – Prime Minister, Minister – all efforts to modernise the Polish army, I will strive for the Polish army to be NATO's top force in the European Union.

I will besides be natural – I address our partners from the United States – he supported Polish most crucial alliances, with this bilateral alliance with the United States. But I will besides take care of Poland's position in the North Atlantic Alliance. As president Elekt, I have already taken the problem of entering into relations with the Secretary General of NATO. But I besides recognise – my fellow Members – that Poland should be the leader in building a strategy of immune work of the east flank of NATO. And I dream that the Bucharest 9 in the long word will become the Bucharest Eleven, together with the Scandinavian countries. Yes, we – as Poles – in Central Europe, in east Europe are liable for building the strength of the east flank of NATO. And that should besides be the global geopolitical direction of my presidency.


Dear Members of the National Assembly!

I will besides be the voice of those Poles who want average Poland – Poland bound to its values, Poland with a good Polish school, with Polish literature and with Polish readings in the Polish school. As a individual who has been active in education and national memory for respective years, I will do everything to guarantee that a good Polish school educates subsequent generations of Poles, and that Polish pupils leaving school actually felt pride in being a Pole.



Ladies and gentlemen!

It is simply a good time to invitation all of you to another edition of the National Reading. It is an initiative initiated by president Bronisław Komorowski, and with specified large success and with energy continued and developed by president Andrzej Duda. National Reading – of course – will besides be in the present Presidential Palace. Yes, if you gotta read Polish readings, it will besides be done by the president of Poland and invited people.

This is an excellent moment, dear ladies and gentlemen, to thank president Andrzej Duda for 10 years of office as president of Poland with so many successes. I besides thank the president for helping him to take the office of president to the present president in specified a democratic, civilized, beautiful, appropriate way. I think that we would all be able to learn this culture of institutions of the most crucial office of the Polish state from the President. Very much for that, Mr. President, thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen!

I will besides be the voice of those Poles who want Polish prosperity. For the last 35 years – as a national community – we have achieved large economical success and economical success. For the sake of clarity: frequently against politicians, sometimes with the aid of politicians, but always thanks to large Polish entrepreneurs and very hard-working Polish workers who worked hard for the economical and economical success of the Polish country for 35 years, paying a very advanced price for this – the price of emigration, the price of work exceedingly. But in these 35 years Poland has achieved economical success and economical success. Unfortunately, during these 35 years [for] many years, circumstantial social groups or circumstantial regions of Poland were excluded from this success. This – of course – must be improved.

But I want to make it clear, ladies and gentlemen, that after these 35 years – and economists know it, you know, Parliamentarians in this Chamber – something has changed in geopolitics and in global economics. present we request large plans, large investments, we request to awaken the aspirations of the Polish people, due to the fact that we can no longer be the auxiliary farm of our western neighbours or the full European Union. We must, ladies and gentlemen, look for this economical path, which will become a form of economical competitiveness, an economical 1 that is besides thrown towards Western Europe.

Yes, we request large and breakthrough investment projects. I have already mentioned this, but I will mention the CPK on a regular basis, and next day I will take the initiative of the bill to return to the conventional form of the Central Communication Port and find their economical flywheel for the next decades that we can develop.
Therefore, I am sad to see what is happening present around breakthrough investment projects in the Polish country. due to the fact that we could actually divide them into completely blocked ones, into the truncated ones and into those – at best – delayed ones. This is simply a very worrying scenario, and erstwhile we look at the avalanche-growing debt and debt of the Polish state, as well as the nonsubjective demographic problem in our country and the problem with housing, it is, unfortunately, present Poland is on a very bad way to improvement and we request to be aware of this. Something needs to be changed.

Therefore, Mr Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to warmly invitation you present to the Cabinet Council, which will be held in August. I would like to talk to the Polish government about improvement investments, about the most crucial investments ahead of us, as well as about the state of public finances. I feel obliged, Prime Minister – as president of Poland – to have full information about the state of Poland.


Ladies and gentlemen!

I believe profoundly – and I look at the left part of the Polish parliament – I profoundly believe that in matters of housing, improvement investments, issues of Polish public finances we are able to scope a political agreement. Yeah, it's not a substance of political emotion. This is the issue of housing for the people they request – including municipal housing. This is simply a question of the future of our children and subsequent generations of Poles. And I truly hope profoundly for the cooperation of all political circles around those issues that we should not look for a policy on. And I will besides pay peculiar attention to these issues in the Chancellery of the president of the Republic.



Ladies and gentlemen!

I besides hope that we will be able to communicate on issues of social groups that request peculiar care of the Polish state. I'm reasoning about seniors, I'm reasoning about young people, in which the code of our future is written. These groups will be devoted to peculiar presidential councils at the Presidential Palace, which will search solutions for seniors and young people. But the strength and possible of the state is besides measured by how it responds to the matters of the most deprived. I so besides believe in the over-political agreement around people with disabilities and the laws that are being prepared for them.



Ladies and gentlemen!

Poland must return to the regulation of law. present Poland is not in the way of the regulation of law. due to the fact that it is hard to call a law-abiding state in which it does not function and does not function legally elected National Prosecutor, in which Article 7 of the Constitution says that the authorities of state must act on the basis and within the limits of the law – it is, unfortunately, regularly broken.

Therefore, I am standing before you present to appeal to the full political class, but besides to tell the Polish judges and the Minister of Justice that – honourable Members – the judges are here to issue judgments on behalf of the Republic of Poland, and the judiciary is 1 of 3 authorities in the Polish democratic system. Polish government – if I am not mistaken – arises in this Chamber, in the Polish Parliament by the will of elected voters, and in the Polish legislature and must gain the acceptance of the president of Poland elected in general and direct elections. And the judges, dear Members – we must all realize this – are not gods, they are meant to service the Republic of Poland and Polish citizens.
I am only saying this due to the fact that I will not advance or nominate those judges who agree to the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland. And I will promote, advance and nominate those judges who have the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland in accordance with the constitution and laws adopted by the Polish Parliament and signed by the president respect – so I imagine the legal order of the Polish State. And the legal safety of Polish citizens who are waiting for just judgments and constitutional order of the Polish State is much more crucial to me – Dear State – than complacency of 1 of the social classes in Poland. I want to make that clear.

In order to solve the problem of the state strategy at the Presidential Palace, I will appoint a Council for the Repair of the State System. Yes – ladies and gentlemen – inactive cannot be and Poles want to repair the state system. I invitation – of course – representatives of all political groups to this Council, I invitation academics, those people to whom concern for the Polish state and our legal strategy is close. And I believe that the Presidential Palace will become a place of dialogue, a place of discussion about the consistent repair of the strategy of the Republic of Poland.

Here we are – Sir Prime Minister, Mr President, Dear Members of the National Assembly – besides a task for our future. specified a task which already requires the activity of the president of the Republic and all political parties. I look back to the 1997 constitution that I am and will be the guardian and the constitution that is in force.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, after nearly 30 years, we are in a completely fresh social situation, a geopolitical situation. Over the past 30 years, so many competency disputes have occurred, and in fresh years the Polish constitution has been so regularly violated that we, as a political class, request to start working on solutions to a fresh fundamental law that will be ready to adopt – I hope and believe – in 2030.

Yes, the Presidential Palace will become, dear Members, not only the place of functioning of the Constitutional Council, but besides the place where we will open, I hope, a national, honest discussion on how the constitution of 2030 will look, due to the fact that present citizens request clear, clear principles of cooperation between politicians, safeguarding the interests of sovereignty, the safety of the Polish state. And we gotta do this now, from 2025, to be ready by 2030 at the latest. This – I have a deep conviction – besides requires us to sovereigns today, to look again at the basic law, which will be 30 years later.

As you know, for many years I have served the Polish state in various institutions, but I am very briefly in the political world. I am in the political planet little than most of you. So let me say, ladies and gentlemen, at the very end – possibly with political naivety – that I believe that we will be able to communicate on issues essential to Poland and to exclude them from political dispute. improvement issues, housing issues, issues of Polish safety are about which I believe that a cross-party, over-political consensus can be built.

In fact, as a national community, we have a beautiful experience of working on a peculiar work, which at the time had the name Independence, from different perspectives and from different – not little than present – political emotions. This is simply a lesson of Polish fathers of independency from 1918, which, erstwhile we read present – ladies and gentlemen – we know how different they were. But they can frequently be read as 1 challenge of attachment to the common thought of independency and freedom of Poland.

The late president Lech Kaczyński erstwhile said it was worth being a Pole. We must prove one more time to the full Poland and the planet that it is worth to be Polish, and that is what the fathers of our independency teach us. due to the fact that it is so hard to disagree with Roman Dmowski, who said that we are Poles and we have Polish responsibilities. surely no 1 in this chamber has any uncertainty that we are Poles and have Polish responsibilities? Józef Piłsudski said that independency is not given to us erstwhile and for all – present we feel it more than ever, due to the fact that there is simply a war going on behind our east border, and Poland must last forever, as Vincenty Witos said. They are speaking from another perspectives in a kind of 1 voice, dear Members.
Social sensitivity we can learn from Wojciech Korfanty, who reminded us – he reminded us! – that the main function of the state is to serve. We are here to service Polish citizens and service people. And I – as president – am not from anything else, but from serving. Ignacy Daszyński said – Dear State – that this is why we must service the society, work hard and perceive to society. Yes, we must perceive to the public. The top virtuoso of the full pool of independency fathers – besides our large father of independency – Ignacy Paderewski with the right grace added that 1 must fight those who push the nation to fall and to detest.

God bless Poland! Long live Poland! Thank you.