“Prime Minister Donald Tusk gave the green light to efforts to bring the NBP president before a special tribunal that could suspend him and ultimately remove him from office,” the American agency Bloomberg reports unofficially.
Poland’s government is preparing to take action against central bank governor Adam Glapiński as his campaign to oust allies of the previous government from state institutions gathers pace.
– reports Bloomberg.
When Bloomberg writes about the “special tribunal,” he most likely means the State Tribunal. According to Bloomberg, Tusk believes that if Prof. Adam Glapiński appears before the Court of Justice, the current president of the NBP will be suspended and then forced to resign from office.
What would be the arguments for Prof. Adam Glapiński before the State Tribunal? According to the US agency, there are two issues – the first is the alleged lack of political neutrality before the elections, and the second is the government’s deception regarding last year’s central bank financial results – instead of the declared profit of PLN 6 billion, it turned out to be a loss of PLN 20 billion.
Cessation of investigation into Tusk’s words against the NBP president
The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Radom has stopped the investigation into the words of Donald Tusk to the head of the National Bank of Poland, Adam Glapiński, delivered in the summer of 2022 at the PO Convention in Radom, Agnieszka Borkowska , spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office, told PAP.
The decision to stop the investigation is not final. Parties who have already received the decision can appeal against it to the court
– noted the spokeswoman.
The investigation related to Donald Tusk’s statements during the Civic Platform’s ‘Future Convention’, which took place in Radom at the beginning of July 2022. The National Bank of Poland has submitted a report on this. The PO chairman said, among other things: about the general price increase, he criticized the head of the National Bank of Poland. Tusk then said, among other things: Glapiński is “incompetent and indecent in what he does; it is also illegal.” The head of PO announced that he would “expel” Glapiński from the National Bank of Poland after the then opposition won the elections.
After a year and a half of investigation, Radom prosecutors concluded that Tusk had committed no crime by uttering these words. They viewed the PO leader’s words as “critical formulations that, although harsh, are not intended to humiliate.” According to the Public Prosecution Service, “the general expression of critical views regarding the activities of the Monetary Policy Council or the actions of the President cannot be equated with the expression of any threat that could influence the activities of this body.”
The questioned fragments of Donald Tusk’s speech, even if subjectively unpleasant or harmful from Adam Glapiński’s perspective, were not intended to humiliate him, and the entire statement is political criticism.
— written to justify the decision to discontinue the procedure.
In the opinion of the investigators, Tusk’s statement about “eliminating” Glapiński from the NBP did not meet the criteria of a crime specified in Art. 128 of the Criminal Code, which talks about the forced removal of a constitutional body of the Republic of Poland.
Apart from a single statement, no actions have been taken that would directly aim at the forcible removal – which is important – of a constitutional authority of the state, nor have any actions been taken in this direction.
– Borkowska explained.
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