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At the hands of the Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz submitted the resignation of ministers Democratic Left Alliance deputy, Andrzej Biernat, Wladyslaw Karpinski and deputy ministers Rafał Baniak, Stanislaw Gawłowski, Thomas Tomczykiewicz from the position of coordinator of special services Jacek Cichocki resigned as chief advisors Prime Minister Jacek Rostowski. With features speaker of Parliament resigned Radoslaw Sikorski. Ewa Kopacz also announced that it will not sign the report of the Attorney General for 2014. And will refer the request to dismiss Andrzej Seremet. Who are the politicians who cross themselves with the positions and what is their relationship with tape scandal?
On Wednesday afternoon, Ewa Kopacz announced at a press conference on a range resignation of the government. Among those who submitted resignation, there were Democratic Left Alliance deputy minister of health, sports and tourism – Andrzej Biernat, treasury – Wlodzimierz Karpinski and deputy ministers: Rafał Baniak, Stanislaw Gawłowski, Thomas Tomczykiewicz. Also resigned from the post of chief advisors prime minister Jacek Rostowski, Coordinator of Special Services Jacek Cichocki, as well as the Speaker of the Sejm Foreign Minister.
The head of government also stated that it would not sign the annual report of the Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet.
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Decisions have a relationship with with the publication on the internet of materials from the investigation of the so-called. the phone hacking scandal.
A spokeswoman for the government of Civic Platform deputy informed that a successor ministers who resigned are already and Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz will announce their names in next week.
According to her, the choice of a new Speaker of the Parliament will probably only at the next sitting of the Sejm – now the next meeting is scheduled for June 23-25.
Health Minister
Democratic Left Alliance deputy, he served as health minister from November 2011. The Civic Platform he joined only in 2013. Previously, drove to the Parliament of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Left and Democrats lists. He was also associated with the Labour Union.
The opposition has repeatedly called for the resignation of Arlukowicz in view of the situation in the health sector. Each time, however, the minister managed to keep the position.
Democratic Left Alliance deputy is one of the persons whose conversations were to be recorded in Warsaw restaurants. As he wrote the weekly “Wprost”, Health Minister often met in the VIP lounge in the “Owl and friends’ with Stanislaw Gawłowski and Tomasz Tomczykiewicz. The investigation into the scandal tape does not have the status of victim.
Sports Minister
Andrzej Biernat was appointed Minister of Sports and Tourism in the government Ewa Kopacz in September 2014. Envoy Civic Platform was in 2005.
Since December 2008,. is the Chairman of the PO in the Lodz region, and since November 2014. is the Secretary General of the OP.
In February of 2015. Biernat asset declarations aroused the interest of the CBA. It was a luxury car brand Land Rover. Officers checked where the minister took measures on such an expensive purchase.
Biernat was to be recorded by waiters in one of Warsaw’s restaurant, but do not have the status of victim in the investigation. Miano register, among others, his conversation with the businessman Jan Kulczyk.
Minister of the Treasury
Wlodzimierz Karpinski from Lublin, was born in Pulawy. He is 53 years old. Policy came from a local business. In 1994-2002, he was Vice President of Pulawy. To the Sejm hit in 2005. Since 2011, he was secretary of state in the Ministry of Administration and Digitization.
The Minister of the Treasury was from 2013. In this position he was replaced by Mikołaj Budzanowski, who had to leave after the scandal of the memorandum of gas.
Karpinski resign in March called for Law and Justice after the Supreme Chamber of Control published a critical report concerning the construction of a gas terminal in Swinoujscie. The project has not been opened or the end of June last year, as originally intended, nor by the end of 2014, which enshrined in the annex to the contract.
Karpinski explained at the time that the delay stems from market crash building. The former minister would then have been withheld due to the NIK report on negotiations with the contractor terminal. He declared that this year the Polish arrives first tanker from Qatar.
Karpinski was also one of the protagonists of the so-called. tape scandal. The overheard conversations with Karpinski also attended by the head of PKN Orlen Jacek Krawiec and Deputy Treasury Minister Zdzislaw Gawlik.
Karpinski was then to speak about John Bury send PSL staffing issues in the context of PGE and the Parliamentary Treasury Committee, is a member of Bury. – I have a problem Bury it, that I can remove *** C cosmos [...] – he had to say Karpinski.
Deputy Treasury
Rafał Baniak comes from Galicia, was born in Myslenice. It is one of the youngest deputies, but with the greatest experience in public administration. He is 39 years old. He began his career in the government of the Democratic Left Alliance: in 2002-2003 he served as advisor to the minister of labor and social policy, and in the years 2003-2004 collaborated with Jerzy Hausner – eg as counsel.
He served as deputy minister in the Ministry of the Treasury since 2007. Earlier, the government of Donald Tusk, was Deputy Minister of Economy, as well as undersecretary of state in the ministry of social policy.
Also implicated in the scandal tape. During the informal meeting of Deputy Minister of the Treasury with lobbyist Peter Wawrzynowicz (he worked for Jan Kulczyk) – which revealed TV republic – had come to propose corruption and transfer of financial gain. Irregularities, which now checks the prosecutor’s office, had a concern the privatization of Ciech SA.
Deputy Minister Baniak referred to this information in a statement: “Driven accusations against me, suggesting the adoption by the material benefit me in connection with the privatization of Ciech SA, presented in the TV program of the Republic on 11 February 2014., are completely unfounded and have no basis in fact, and as a result – is defamatory and violate my personal interests. “
Deputy Minister of Environment
Stanislaw Gawłowski comes from the Opole region, he was born in the Bank. He is 46 years old. He holds a doctorate in economics in the field of management studies.
The politics involved since the 80s – worked in the anti-communist opposition. He began his career in local government as deputy mayor Darlowa (now West), then Deputy Mayor of Koszalin. To the Sejm came in 2005 (with district Koszalin). After the elections in November 2007 he was involved in the Ministry of the Environment, where he worked as secretary of state.
Deputy Minister of Economy
Thomas Tomczykiewicz comes from Silesia, was born in Pless. He is 53 years old.
The politics involved in the 90s as a local government. Since 1998 he was the mayor of Pszczyny. Today is the head of the PO structures in the region. He was active in the Union of Real Politics, Real Politics Stronnictwie, the Conservative People’s Stronnictwie. Since 2001, it operates in the Civic Platform. Since 2001 he has been a parliamentary seat. He was deputy chairman of a commission of inquiry to investigate the circumstances of the death of Barbara Blida. Since 2011 he has been secretary of state in the Ministry of Economy.
Coordinator. Special Services
Jacek Cichocki was responsible for coordinating the activities of the Internal Security Agency, the Intelligence Agency, the Military Counterintelligence Service, Service Military Intelligence and the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau in September 2014. Previously, these powers belonged to the interior minister.
During his career, including Cichocki directed the Ministry of the Interior in 2011. In February of 2013. was appointed chief of staff Donald Tusk.
As said on Wednesday Ewa Kopacz, Cichocki “accepted responsibility for the inadequate operation of services in recent years and resigned from office “.
Prime Minister’s chief advisor
Jacek Rostowski was born in London, but in a Polish family. He has 64 years. His father, Roman Rostowski was a secretary and translator Thomas Arciszewskiego, the prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. He has dual citizenship: Polish and British. He was educated in the UK.
In Poland emerged after the political changes: collaborated with prof. Leszek Balcerowicz, as well as the Polish National Bank. In 2007-2013 he was finance minister in the government of Donald Tusk. At the beginning he was appointed head of Policy Advisers of the Prime Minister.
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Jacek Rostowski, today dismissed chief advisors Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, was overheard talking with Radoslaw Sikorski. Their conversation revealed the weekly “Wprost”.
On the recordings that during dinner at the restaurant “Amber Room” at the Palace Sobańskich Sikorski assessed that the Polish alliance with the United States is “worthless and even harmful because the world offers Poland a false sense of security. “
-” Bullshit complete. Skonfliktujemy with Germany, with Russia, and we thought that everything is great, because we did stick to the Americans. Nerds. Total Computer nerds – said on tapes former head of diplomacy. Sikorski also said that “in Poland we have a shallow pride and low self-esteem. This murzyńskość. “
The Finance Minister had stated on record that he did not like the fact that Danuta Hubner received first place on the list of PO in Warsaw in elections to the European Parliament. – It was an outrageous idea with the old komuszką – Rostowski said on the tapes. Rostowski after the disclosure of recordings publicly apologized MEP Danuta Hubner.
Marshal of the Sejm
Radoslaw Sikorski was appointed marshal in September 2014. Donald Tusk’s government, he served as foreign minister for nearly seven years – the longest in the last 25 years. He has been credited as one of the most distinctive foreign ministers in the EU. With the government went after the Health Minister Donald Tusk replaced as Prime Minister.
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In November of 2014. Justice requested the cancellation Sikorski and Marshal function, to no avail, because the parliament rejected the request. The immediate reason for the dismissal of the application PiS Sikorski was his statement to the US website Politico, which concluded that in 2008. in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Tusk was talking about the division of Ukraine. Sikorski admitted later that during the visit Polish government delegation in Russia there has been no bilateral talks Tusk-Putin. He said that in this case memory failed him.
Sikorski in his career he also served as defense minister in the PiS government, was also deputy defense minister in the government of Jan Olszewski and foreign affairs in the government of Jerzy Buzek.
Several times he was a candidate for positions in Polish international organizations. In 2009. He was a candidate for NATO secretary-general, but his candidacy collapsed, among others, because of disagreements between the government and the then President Lech Kaczynski. Last year he was a candidate for the EU High Representative. Foreign and Defence Policy in case Tusk has not been the chairman of the European Council. But they pushed through the second solution.
According to some opinion Sikorski chances to take the EU could function also decrease because of disclosure in June last year by “Wprost” recordings of his conversations with the former. Minister of Finance Jacek Rostowski. In an interview Foreign Minister, among others, critical of the UK premiere of David Cameron, accusing him of incompetence in European affairs and assessed that “the Polish-American alliance is worthless,” and “even harmful, because it gives Poland a false sense of security.”
Attorney General
The Attorney General was appointed attorney general in 2010.
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On Wednesday represented in parliament to disclose information relating to the investigation file on the so-called. the phone hacking scandal.
In the afternoon, Ewa Kopacz announced that it will not sign the report of the Attorney General for 2014.
– For two days the public is alive thanks to illegal wiretaps. It has a negative effect on the functions of the state – said the head of government.
She also said that “the only effect of long-term over the annual investigation conducted by the prosecutor’s office is a giant leak investigation file.”
– It undermines in particular confidence in such an institution, which is a public trust institution, which is the prosecutor’s office – assessed.
Prosecutor General once a year is required to submit an annual activity report to the head of government hands. If it is rejected, the Prime Minister may ask the Parliament with a request for the dismissal of the prosecutor general. What is needed is for the majority of 2/3 of the votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory number of deputies.
The government spokesman Civic Platform deputy submitted that the Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz will send to the Parliament a proposal for the dismissal of Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet.
As it said is a very complicated procedure that requires time and different opinions. – Mrs. Prime Minister has already started this process – the government spokesman stressed.
– For now, the Prime Minister Kopacz must wait for the opinion of the minister of justice, he needs to prepare a request for cancellation Seremet, then the (National) Council of Public Prosecution has two months to comment on application. It takes quite a long time – Civic Platform deputy noted
This is not the first controversy surrounding the actions prosecutor’s office in the phone hacking scandal. When in June 2014. Prosecutors in the company ABW officers entered the editorial office of the weekly “Wprost”, who described the recording, Attorney General estimated that the prosecutor’s actions were not an attack on freedom of the media. He assured that the prosecution did not seek to determine the informant editorial ws. Wiretaps, but demanded release media with recordings. The prosecution, searching the editors of “Wprost”, she could not act differently, for example by adopting copies of recordings – then the attorney general argued.
Author: kg // plw, tr / Source: tvn24.pl, tvn24bis.pl, PAP
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