The President conducts his own policy and in many or in most situations it is in harmony with what the government is doing, because there is a convergence, most of all about the programs,” Krzysztof Łapiński, spokesman for President Andrzej Duda, sais in “Jeden na jeden”.
Łapiński was asked about relations between President Andrzej Duda and PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński. The President's spokesman said that a ”good meeting, lasting one and a half hours” between the President and the PiS chairman took place recently.
“Convergence of programs”
“There is no problem when it comes to relations between the President and the leader of the United Right,” claimed Łapiński. “If the opposition expects the President to go against his political camp, to go against the current government at every turn, and preferably at the bidding of the opposition, then it will be disappointed. This will not happen. The President has not assumed his office to fight the government every day at the request of the opposition,” said the President's spokesman. Łapiński stressed that “the President conducts his own policy and in many or in most situations it is in harmony with what the government is doing, because there is a convergence, most of all on the programs.”
In his opinion, despite speculation about the alleged influence of the chairman of PiS on the draft National Council of the Judiciary and Supreme Court bills, “the new bills are one hundred percent President Duda's.”
Asked if the current relations between the President and the chairman of PiS can be described in two words: “peace and love”, Łapiński replied, “of course, they can.” “There is the President, who pursues his own program within his constitutional powers, and there is the government, which also pursues its own program,” he declared. “The opposition has a problem, because it has been a long time since we saw such an opposition, which even the media pay less and less attention to,” he added.
“Everyone” should listen to what Romaszewska is saying
Łapiński also quoted Zofia Romaszewska, advisor to President Andrzej Duda, who told RMF FM that if Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro persists in doing nothing to change the court system, “he should be fired.”
According to Łapiński, Romaszewska's voice carries weight and “her every word and sentence should be listened to with great respect and should give everyone food for thought.”
“It is always worthwhile to listen to what a person of such merit has to say,” he claimed. Asked if Zbigniew Ziobro should do the same, he replied: “I think everyone should.”
Juźwik's case
Łapiński also commented on the dismissal of Colonel Czesław Juźwik from the department of civilian control over the military at the National Security Bureau, following a disclosure of Juźwik's service in the Internal Military Service (military counterintelligence under the Communist regime) in 1983-90.
“The matter was quickly resolved,” Łapiński said. “Minister Paweł Soloch [head of the National Security Bureau - ed.] asked the Minister of National Defence, special services coordinator, to turn over any information about the Bureau's employees, which might in any way put in question the legitimacy of their employment there. No such information was forthcoming,” he added. “To avoid doubts of this kind, Minister Soloch will screen all employees of the National Defence Bureau,” Łapiński announced.
“It would be well,” he added, if everyone acted as Minister Soloch did and “resolved the matter quickly” in such a situation.
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