Prime Minister and his people against the circle of the President of the Republic of Poland? And in the field of foreign policy? Unfortunately, such clashes are nothing new. Witold Waszczykowski has presented a document from years ago. At that time, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also Radosław Sikorski.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump met at the White House with the President of Ukraine. Afterwards, both spoke with European leaders who had come to Washington, among whom there were no representatives of the Polish government. However, they began creating their own narrative, shifting the responsibility for their absence onto President Karol Nawrocki. Yesterday, the Prime Minister personally struck at the head of state.
“Poland, abroad, requires unified action and cooperation among all state institutions, and cooperation requires mutual patience and understanding; let’s give the President and his office some time,”
Donald Tusk wrote on X.
Relations between Donald Tusk’s government and the Polish President on matters of international policy are tense once again. And this is nothing new. On social media, a memory surfaced from 16 years ago, showing how, at the time, efforts were made to withhold information from people in the circle of President Lech Kaczyński.
“Employees of the Presidential Chancellery had their security clearances revoked, were denied diplomatic passports, were not allowed to take part in important meetings, and their access to diplomatic cables was restricted,”
wrote former Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, publishing a 2009 document.
“Tusk’s team has experience in fighting presidents,”
commented the PiS politician.
The document from 16 years ago states that by decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ leadership, with Radosław Sikorski, just as today, serving as foreign minister, the external distribution lists for cypher telegrams sent to Poland from foreign missions were restricted. Cypher telegrams were no longer circulated to addressees outside the ministry and were to be replaced by notes instead. Decisions on who could be granted access to the cypher telegrams were also to be made by directors of individual MFA departments.