“We will play according to the way the opponent allows. If the opponent wants to fight, we will fight. I think the Office of the President, the entire administration of Karol Nawrocki, is quite well prepared to enter into this dispute. I would also like to say that we are not the ones imposing the conditions of war,” said Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau, on the program High Voltage on TV Republika.
Tusk’s Threats Toward President Nawrocki
Prime Minister Donald Tusk was recently asked how he envisioned cooperation with the new president, Karol Nawrocki. The politician stated that he “had the pleasure, and at times it was a very serious challenge, to work with many presidents practically since the beginning of the Third Polish Republic.” He noted that as prime minister, he had so far worked with three presidents, and Karol Nawrocki would be the fourth. He also issued a warning.
“Wherever the new president wants to help, I will welcome his readiness to cooperate with open arms. Wherever he wants to obstruct, he will see what the constitutional rule means, namely, who governs the country, and on this matter I will be very consistent, and, if necessary, also ruthless,”
said Tusk.
Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau, commented on the prime minister’s words on the High Voltage program on TV Republika.
“We will play the way the opponent allows. If the opponent wants to fight, we will fight. I think the Office of the President, the entire administration of Karol Nawrocki, is quite well prepared to enter into this dispute or battle. I would also like to say that we are not imposing the conditions of war; these conditions are being imposed on us by the government side. We are seeking agreement, especially in areas concerning security, where it will be possible to meet halfway. The last days, or even hours, have shown that even in these matters some disturbances may arise,”
he said.
When asked how the president and his team would respond to government actions, he replied:
“It’s too early to say what path will be chosen. We will try to effectively defend ourselves and circumvent this reckless policy of the ultras gathered around the Chancellery of the Prime Minister or around Prime Minister Donald Tusk himself, who, on the issue of security, which he himself says should unite us, is trying to destroy the elementary agreement between the head of state and the government that should exist.”
“We agree that there is a Russian threat, that there is migratory pressure, that it is necessary to modernize the army and tighten border security. In all these areas and many others, President Karol Nawrocki is willing to cooperate, and he has said so. Karol Nawrocki did not come here to fight with the government, but to get things done, the things he spoke about during the election campaign, to implement his “Plan 21.” War or conflict arises as a result of opposition to allowing the president to carry out his program,”
he declared.
Attack on Prof. Cenckiewicz: “I’m Not Saying It’s Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz Doing This”
Prof. Cenckiewicz also spoke about an attack against himself. Let us recall: on August 5, the spokesperson for the Minister Coordinator of Special Services, Jacek Dobrzyński, announced that “the Chancellery of the Prime Minister has filed cassation appeals to the Supreme Administrative Court against the judgments of the Provincial Administrative Court of June 17 this year concerning the revocation of security clearances for access to classified information for Mr. Sławomir Cenckiewicz.”
Believing that filing the cassation appeal was sufficient, Dobrzyński stated that, according to the Classified Information Protection Act, “Mr. Sławomir Cenckiewicz does not have access to classified information.”
Attorney Bartosz Lewandowski quickly reacted to this claim, pointing out that “Professor Cenckiewicz does have access to classified information.”
“You need to do a better legal analysis,”
the lawyer addressed the December 13 coalition.
Prof. Cenckiewicz emphasized that such attacks are mainly carried out by “the center gathered around Prime Minister Tusk, which apparently does not want good cooperation with the president.”
“I’m not saying that Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz is doing this. […] There is resistance even over how the administration of President Nawrocki should be structured. This is a complete misunderstanding. I am grateful for all the voices coming from Marshal Hołownia and his party, as well as from the Polish People’s Party and Kosiniak-Kamysz, and many other politicians, saying that the president chooses his own collaborators, which should be the standard. We are in a situation where obvious statements become some kind of exception on the Polish political scene,”
he declared.