“I am part of the Law and Justice (PiS) community. I am not ashamed of being a Law and Justice politician. On the contrary, I am proud to be a Law and Justice politician,” declared Zbigniew Bogucki, who is set to become the head of President Karol Nawrocki’s office.
Karol Nawrocki to Be Sworn In as President Tomorrow
The inauguration of President-elect Karol Nawrocki is scheduled for tomorrow. Zbigniew Bogucki, MP from PiS, will become the head of his office, while Adam Andruszkiewicz, also a PiS MP, will serve as his deputy. The head of the President’s Cabinet will be PiS MP Paweł Szefernaker, who led Nawrocki’s election campaign. Szefernaker’s deputy will be Jarosław Dębowski, the former director of the IPN president’s office, and the spokesperson for the Presidential Office will be Rafał Leśkiewicz, with whom Nawrocki previously collaborated at the IPN.
Bogucki gave an interview today in which he was asked why he did not resign from party membership despite beginning work at the Presidential Office.
“This is a political party and a political community that received the support of 7.6 million people in the last parliamentary elections. It is a political community that governed Poland very well. I am part of the Law and Justice community. I am not ashamed of being a Law and Justice politician. On the contrary, I am proud to be a Law and Justice politician,” said the PiS MP.
The politician emphasized that “the president was supported by the largest political group, the political camp that is Law and Justice – of course, he was a civic candidate, never held a party card, and that is the best guarantee.”
“The president doesn’t have the party card, so I can calmly keep mine,” he added.
“We are not going to be ashamed of Law and Justice“
He also pointed out that “we are not going to be ashamed of Law and Justice, we will not yield to those who still have those eight stars etched somewhere in their social media or in their heads.”
“We want to work for Poland, and there is absolutely no obstacle in the fact that we are and will continue to be members of Law and Justice,” he stated.
Referring to future relations between PiS and the president, he stressed: “I think there won’t be a conflict, because both the president and the Law and Justice community have one goal: the good of Poland.”
President Nawrocki’s First Legislative Initiative
Bogucki also spoke about President Nawrocki’s first legislative initiative.
“It will be a bill concerning the CPK. It’s already ready. I reviewed it again just yesterday, and the president knows it very well. It’s a project of Polish ambition. It’s also a project of Polish security, because we sometimes forget that beyond cargo, passenger transport, and so on, it is also a matter of logistics, for example, for the armed forces. They didn’t want this project, only Poles forced them into it. Poles, saying yes to CPK from various political backgrounds – not only from Law and Justice or those connected with Karol Nawrocki – said yes to CPK. They forced this government to do something. And they’re doing it out of obligation. But a slave does not make a good worker. They’re doing it because they have to, not because they want to,” he explained.