President Andrzej Duda appointed Mieszko Pawlak as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Head of the International Policy Office in the Presidential Chancellery; will replace Marcin Przydacz in this position.
The outgoing head of the International Policy Bureau, Marcin Przydacz, and the president’s adviser, Paweł Sałek, won a parliamentary seat on the PiS ticket. Both will sit on the parliamentary benches for the first time in their political careers.
President Andrzej Duda dismissed Marcin Przydacz from the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the International Policy Office, and Paweł Sałek from the position of his advisor.
At the same time, the president appointed Mieszko Pawlak as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the International Policy Bureau.
The president honored the outgoing minister and adviser for “outstanding achievements in state and public service” with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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