More than a year and a half after the submission of the bill on the actions of state authorities in situations of threats to national security, the special parliamentary subcommittee has still not begun its work. Andrzej Śliwka points to a lack of political will and emphasizes that the document is ready for debate. The issue concerns key matters, including the command system, informing the authorities, and the responsibility of state structures.
On 11 July 2024, the Sejm’s National Defense Committee established a special subcommittee to examine the bill submitted by the President of the Republic of Poland concerning the actions of state authorities in the event of an external threat to national security.
As Andrzej Śliwka stresses, the bill is important and correct in its general direction, but it requires substantive debate and legislative work. In the MP’s opinion, “the politicians of KO, PSL, Poland 2050, and the Left are apparently afraid of this debate.”
The bill addresses significant issues:
- reform of the command and control system,
- rules for informing the country’s top officials about threats and involving them in the national defense system,
- the responsibility of state structures in crisis situations.
Śliwka has repeatedly appealed to representatives of the ruling coalition to begin work on the President’s bill—without success. The chair of the subcommittee, MP Szewiński (KO), has not convened a single meeting, explaining this by the alleged lack of a position from the Ministry of National Defense. Meanwhile, as Śliwka points out, Deputy Ministers of Defense Paweł Bejda, Cezary Tomczyk, and Paweł Zalewski regularly reply that “the Ministry’s position will be ready any moment now.”
“Week after week, month after month passes. There is still no position. And it is becoming increasingly clear that the issue is not the absence of a document. It is the absence of political will to deal with state security seriously, rather than only in media appearances,”
Śliwka comments.
The MP notes that after more than 1.5 years, the governing parties have effectively frozen the matter: the bill was sent to a subcommittee that has not met even once in a substantive manner and has not begun real work on the proposal.
The case is further underscored by the fact that the bill was worked on by General Dariusz Łukawski, former adviser and head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), and as of November 2025, Director of the Defense Strategy and Planning Department at the Ministry of National Defense. Śliwka expresses hope that the general will persuade politicians to resume the debate on “the most important issues concerning national security.”