“The presidential bill concerning the protection of Polish rural areas has been stripped of an important preamble that would have served as an additional legal instrument and argument in the hands of the governing authorities, if they truly wished to prevent the EU-Mercosur agreement, harmful to Poland’s food security, from entering into force,” wrote on X the head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Zbigniew Bogucki.
On Monday, President Karol Nawrocki announced that he had signed ten bills into law. One of them was the “Act on the Protection of the Polish Countryside,” which prohibits the sale of Polish land into foreign hands. The act originated from the president’s initiative.
“This is a project I initiated already on the fourth day of my presidency during a meeting with farmers in Krąpiel. Thanks to my legislative initiative, and with the support of almost the entire parliament, a solution has been adopted that prohibits the sell-off of Polish land into foreign hands for ten years,”
Nawrocki emphasized.
Later in the afternoon, the head of the Presidential Chancellery, Zbigniew Bogucki, commented on the matter. He stressed that the initiative had already been submitted on the fifth day after the president was sworn in. It therefore took the parliamentary majority more than 200 days to process it.
“Had parliament also worked on the remaining fifteen presidential initiatives, we would, among other things, be implementing the major Central Communication Port (CPK) project rather than its substitute, we would be paying electricity prices lower by 33%, we would have zero personal income tax (PIT) for families with children, and there would be order in the justice system,”
he stated.
He also pointed out that the presidential draft had been “stripped of an important preamble that would have served as an additional legal instrument and legal argument in the hands of those in power, if they genuinely wanted the EU-Mercosur agreement, harmful to Poland’s food security, not to enter into force.”
“Why the December 13 coalition did not want this provision and whose interests it represents, I leave to your judgment…,”
he concluded.
The preamble proposed by the President read:
“In a sense of special responsibility for the future of Polish agriculture and the food security of citizens, recognizing the deepening economic difficulties in Europe and the growing threats resulting from the inflow of agricultural products from outside the borders of the European Union, convinced that Polish agriculture based on family farms requires real protection and support, guided by the shared political and social will to defend domestic agricultural production as the foundation of the independence, security, and prosperity of the Republic of Poland, acknowledging that it is the duty of public authorities to undertake consistent and systemic actions aimed at the lasting strengthening of domestic agriculture and the defense of the interests of Polish farmers, accepting that this Act constitutes one of the elements of implementing this policy and a tool for protecting Polish agricultural production as a whole, the following Act is hereby adopted.”