On Tuesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he “will never use the abbreviation CPK.“ Today, Dariusz Klimczak, the Minister of Infrastructure, stated directly that the name of the project will be changed.
“From the very beginning, I was against calling this project (CPK) that way, especially since we are not centralizing Poland,” said Klimczak on the illegally taken-over TVP Info. “We are working on the entire network. If a line from Warsaw to Łódź, from Łódź to Poznań or to Wrocław is being built, we are also trying to ensure that other lines are developed, and that the high-speed railway continues,” he added.
“The name CPK will be changed because the project itself has been changed, its parameters have been improved, it is more functional, and it is not centralized,“ emphasized the minister. “What the new airport will be called and what the project itself will be named is a separate issue. I do not deny that I am thinking and working on it, because the current name has been discredited,“ he said. He also pointed out that the Minister of Infrastructure is not the government’s plenipotentiary for Central Communication Port (CPK).
On Monday, WP reported that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in December 2023 approved the sale of a 160-hectare plot to the vice-president of a private company – Dawtona. The sale took place despite the opposition of the Central Communication Port (CPK) authorities, for whose construction the plot was crucial, since the high-speed railway line from Warsaw to CPK was supposed to run through this land in Zabłotnia near Grodzisk Mazowiecki.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, referring to this case, said that he “will never use the abbreviation CPK” because today “everyone in Poland“ interprets the abbreviation CPK as ‘cały PiS kradnie‘ (‘the whole PiS steals’).He added that the then-Minister of Agriculture approved the sale of the plot on October 19, 2023, and that the entire process and key formalities were completed within 24 hours, between November 30 and December 1, 2023.
However, Law and Justice (PiS) politicians revealed a series of further omissions related to the plot in Zabłotnia, including inconsistencies in statements from the National Agricultural Support Centre (KOWR), which until a few days ago maintained that it was impossible to repurchase the property (although the contract clearly stated otherwise).
Law and Justice (PiS) claims that the case may be used by the government to block the construction of CPK.
“This pseudo-scandal was meant to allow Tusk to fulfill his dream of abandoning CPK. The contract includes the right to repurchase the plot at the same price, which means the state’s interest has been secured. Donald Tusk has no excuse! He must build CPK. He should stop lying and stop blocking Poland’s development,” said Law and Justice (PiS) MPs.