A candidate for President of the NBP Adam Glapiński is an economist, two-time minister, one of the closest collaborators of the Kaczynski brothers at the time of the Agreement Center, as well as economic adviser to President Lech Kaczynski. This is his giving has been a member of the Monetary Policy Council.
February 29, 2016 President Andrzej Duda at the request of the NBP President Marek Belka appointed him a member of the board of the Polish National Bank. Glapiński harmoniously worked with Belka from the beginning to sit in the MPC. This was received by the markets as a kind of “anointing” by Belka his successor. Glapiński reciprocated support for Belka’s candidacy for President of the EBRD.The Monetary Policy Council has called for a six-year term Glapiński in February 2010, President Lech Kaczynski. As a member of the MPC was regarded rather as a “dove” (a supporter of mild interest rate policy), although he did not belong to the extreme representatives of any of the factions. In 2012, in conditions of rising inflation, was a supporter of raising the foot.
“It was a strong signal that the Council will not tolerate excessive inflation. On the other hand, due to the uncertainty of the situation both internationally, external and internal, in my opinion, should return to the position + wait and see +. Without excluding increases. certainly there is no question of rate cuts in the coming months, “- he said then about the MPC’s decision to increase interest.
Then, when inflation fell, was a supporter of reduction. “I think that interest rates should remain unchanged until the end of this year. At the beginning of next year, you might consider a possible reduction” – he said in 2014. However, he voted against the last has cut rates – by 50 basis points – in March 2015.
During the sit MPC widely he presented his economic views during the debate economists, organized by the Law and Justice in 2012. He said then, among others, the need to “unify, simplify, credible tax bill.” He commented on the fact that in the course of this debate came up with ideas to various taxes. “From the point of view of an economist, taxes in general should not be. Taxes are not economic in the sense that they are good at something effect. Ideally, taxes were not there. Taxes result from the operation of the state, that are needed funds for various expenses, “- he said.
In February 2009, along with Ryszard Bugaj, he was an economic adviser to President Lech Kaczynski. This appointment – in just a couple of Bugaj – showed economic views Glapiński. He presented rather as a supporter of the free market, which happens not always współbrzmiało of economic views prevailing in the PiS. Glapiński at the same time he was also always opposed the rapid Polish entering the euro zone.
Future – since June. – NBP president was born on April 9, 1950 in Warsaw, where in 1968. Graduated from the prestigious High School. Stefan Batory. He studied at the Faculty of Economic and Social School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (currently Warsaw School of Economics). He graduated in 1972. In the same year he held an internship at the Banque de France in Paris. He received his doctorate and, in 2004. Habilitation at SGH. In 2013, he received the title of Professor of Economics, alma mater head of the Department of Political Economy and History of Economic Thought.
In the 80s, he worked in the underground “S”, and martial law was co-underground Solidarity SGPiS. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the Warsaw Branch of the Association of Democratic Center, a member of the Citizens’ Committee in Warsaw and Electoral Staff “S” in Warsaw cafe “Surprise.”
In 1990 he co-founded the Center Alliance and the Warsaw branch of the Liberal Democratic Congress (KLD). As an activist, PC, where he was vice president, came to the Sejm of the first term in 1991. In the same year he became a portfolio of minister of construction and spatial planning in the government of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. In 1997. As a candidate of the Movement for Reconstruction Polish came to the Senate. Soon, however, he left the ROP and went into setting up the Solidarity Electoral Action Christian National.
In addition to a career-parliamentary government in 1993-2001 he headed the Institute of Economics and Political Freedom, was also a member of the Chapter Award “Poland Now” International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (since 2002.) And the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (since 2007.).
He was chairman of the supervisory board: the Export Development Bank SA, Centralwings and KGHM Polish Copper SA In 2007-2008 he was chairman of the board, CEO Polkomtel SA
If it was not Adam Glapiński, recent history of Polish would look very different. In 1991-92 he was minister for economic cooperation with foreign countries in the government of Jan Olszewski. When after a failed mission Waldemar Pawlak was created the summer of 1992 the government of Hanna Suchocka, initially took him to support some of the same groups that supported the study Olszewski (including ZChN and Center Alliance) and the Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress.
However, the leaders of the UD does not want to agree to the new government Glapiński, as a representative of PC, remained as head MWGzZ. Then the PC leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski withdrew from the talks on the creation of the office Suchocka. As a result, his party was in the opposition, which had a significant impact on the vote by the Parliament in 1993 in a vote of no confidence in the government, and thus the solution to the Sejm by the President Lech Walesa oases SLD and PSL victory in early elections.
At the time Glapiński as head MWGzZ introduced concessions on fuel trading. “Temporarily” concession fuel company received the Horn, which was the subject of an investigation of the prosecution, and UOP stopped in connection with this case the director of the office PC. Representatives of the party replied that the whole thing is one of the elements of the campaign against their environment from the government Suchocka and control the special services of the resort Presidential, a phenomenon that a few years later was called “surveillance right”.
Glapiński not spared the criticism of the ruling – was one of the heroes published in 1993 a book Jacek Kurski and Piotr Semko “Left in June”, revealing scenes of the appeal of the government of Jan Olszewski, which is also a kind of contemporary political manifesto environments that after years were in the PiS.
Last Name Glapiński appeared also in 2001, when TVP gave a two-part material “drama in three acts” designed to discredit the Kaczynski brothers and their environment. Lech Kaczynski was then becoming more and more popular justice minister, and his brother Jaroslaw created a new group – the Law and Justice.
In the material appeared charged with the financing of the 1991 PC with money Foreign Debt Service Fund, and it put the main character of the film – Cliff Pineiro, raised in Poland, a businessman of Cuban origin. He was, according to his own relationship was in 1991 make friends with Glapińskim, then minister of spatial planning and construction in the government of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, to help him financially to buy designer suits, but mainly transmitted through it money for the campaign PC. Money, he argued Pineiro, from FOZZ.
Glapiński, who was then a senator AWS, denied everything, like the Kaczynski brothers. Pineiro, sought arrest warrant, reported after the broadcast of the program to the prosecutor’s office and after a few years in the first instance was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison for swindling money from companies associated with FOZZ. The whole thing also mentioned a report from the liquidation of the WSI in 2007 as a provocation organized by the military services against the Kaczynski brothers and their environment.
Peter Śmiłowicz
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