Beata Rutkiewicz is the Pomeranian Voivodean who was appointed to this position by Donald Tusk in 2023. Previously, she was vice president of Wejherowo. Radosław Król is a PSL activist and as of 2023 the voivode of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. What do they have in common? The fact that… they appointed each other to supervisory boards.
During the election campaign, the ‘December 13 coalition’ repeatedly attacked PiS and accused the then ruling party of, among other things, nepotism. She herself announced a ‘new quality’ in politics. And then, almost immediately after the formation of the government, she started removing PiS nominees from companies and institutions.
It turns out that the two voivodes appointed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2023… after a few weeks no longer served on the supervisory boards of the Environmental Protection Fund in Gdańsk and Olsztyn.
Beata Rutkiewicz – non-partisan Voivode of Pomerania – appointed Radosław Król – Voivode of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and PSL activist – as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Environmental Protection Fund in Gdańsk. The king appointed Rutkiewicz to the board of the fund in Olsztyn – reports “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
Coincidence or contract?
The decision of the voivodes appointed by Donald Tusk on December 20, 2023 caused an uproar among some Pomeranian PO activists. There is speculation that Rutkiewicz and Król have struck an unusual deal. In addition, there are rules that prohibit voivodes from serving on supervisory boards of companies. However, the legal prohibition does not apply to provincial funds, as regional public financial institutions.
“GW” reports that the voivodes did not answer the question of whether the mutual nominations were a coincidence or whether there was an agreement between them. However, it is certain that both no longer hold their positions on the supervisory board.
Rutkiewicz’s place was taken by Jarosław Matłach, the star of PSL’s Szczytno. The place of the king was replaced by the rector of the University of Gdańsk, Prof. Ph.D. Piotr Stepnowski.
““Urgent need for personnel changes”
Natalia Glińska-Jackowska, spokeswoman for the Voivodeship Office in Gdańsk, explains in a press release to “GW” that the candidacy of the UG rector was “considered almost from the beginning of accepting the position of voivode”, and Beata Rutkiewicz was making efforts to “confirm this opinion.
How could it happen that another candidate was ultimately chosen?
Due to the urgent need to implement personnel changes in the WFOŚiGW councils at the voivodeship level, another candidate was selected. Such action was not isolated at national level. The request to dismiss the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship from the supervisory board of the WFOŚiGW in Gdańsk was submitted to the ministry on January 23, just 19 days after his appointment.
– said Glińska-Jackowska.
“The voivodes were jealous
Mayors of PO cities already have their own intergovernmental council exchange program. The voivodes were jealous
– Michał Woś, a Member of Parliament of Sovereign Poland, commented on Platform X.
Pomeranian Voivodeship Beata Rutkiewicz appointed Radosław Król, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Environmental Protection Fund in Gdańsk. The king sent Rutkiewicz to the council in Olsztyn. Bravo! (but in the end it didn’t work out, you are without advice)
When the former Deputy Minister of Justice wrote about the “intergovernmental exchange of boards”, he most likely had in mind the President of Wrocław, Jacek Sutryk, who – as the media reported in October 2022 – sat on the supervisory boards of municipal companies . in Tychy and Gliwice. The presidents and vice-presidents of these cities: Andrzej Dziuba (in 2023 he was no longer mayor of Tychy, because he participated in the parliamentary elections and entered the Senate) and Mariusz Śpiewok (vice-president of Gliwice), were in companies in Wrocław.
This is just two months into Tusk’s coalition government. Are there and will there be more cases like this?
aja/Wyborcza.pl, X, tuwroclaw.com
Source: wPolityce