Mieszko Pawlak will replace Marcin Przydacz as head of the Presidential Office of International Policy. Andrzej Duda will appoint him as deputy foreign minister on Monday, PAP has learned from the president’s chancellery.
The current head of the International Policy Bureau, Marcin Przydacz, won a parliamentary seat from the PiS list in the Sieradz constituency (No. 11). He will sit on the parliamentary benches for the first time in his political career.
Przydacz’s position will be filled by his current deputy and director of the International Policy Office, Mieszko Pawlak.
Appointment as head of the International Policy Bureau
Andrzej Duda will appoint Mieszko Pawlak as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the International Policy Bureau at noon on Monday.
According to the President’s Chancellery, Mieszko Pawlak is a political scientist and philosopher by training; studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
He has been associated with the presidential palace since the beginning of Andrzej Duda’s term of office. In the years 2015–2017 he worked at the Presidential Office of Foreign Affairs. In the period 2017–2021 he served as Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland, in subsequent years as Director of the National Security Office and as Advisor to the Head of the National Security Office. From 2023 he will lead the International Policy Office.
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Source: wPolityce