A group of MPs from Donald Tusk’s government have filed a preliminary request to have the president of the National Bank of Poland brought before the State Tribunal. Law and Justice politicians discussed this issue during the press conference. As they warned, this could be a way for the current Prime Minister to fulfill his obligations to Brussels and introduce the euro in Poland. “It is about the implementation of a certain political plan with which Donald Tusk came to Poland and is trying to implement. (…) The attack on President Glapiński and on the NBP is aimed at removing the last fuse, namely the NBP, before the introduction of the euro in Poland,” said PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek.
On Tuesday, a group of parliamentarians from the ruling coalition filed a preliminary request to summon NBP President Adam Glapiński to the State Tribunal. The motion was signed by 191 MPs. The issue of the central bank governor was raised by PiS politicians during the press conference. They explained, among other things, what consequences this could have. As they have noted, Donald Tusk’s people are not interested in Prof. Glapiński’s alleged settlement of his actions, but in enabling themselves to implement important changes in Poland.
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Application against the President of the National Bank of Poland
This whole issue is not really about Professor Glapiński, about replacing the President of the National Bank of Poland, but is actually about the implementation of a certain political plan with which Donald Tusk came to Poland and is trying to implement it. And the current management of the National Bank of Poland is in this direction. The attack on President Glapiński, the National Bank of Poland, is precisely aimed at removing the last fuse, namely the National Bank of Poland, before the introduction of the euro in Poland.
– explained Bochenek.
As Krzysztof Szczucki noted, the NBP performs “very important functions.”
It is responsible for Polish money and therefore the Polish Constitution, Polish law and also European law guarantee the Central Bank a very high level of independence.
– he pointed out.
At the same time, the Constitution provides for the possibility of holding the President of the National Bank of Poland constitutionally liable before the State Tribunal. However, it does not specifically specify what kind of parliamentary majority there must be that can make such a decision. These matters are governed by the State Tribunal Act. This law established that the majority needed to remove the President of the National Bank of Poland before the State Tribunal was an absolute majority. This meant that the majority needed to form a government, we can call it the government majority, could actually paralyze the functioning of the National Bank of Poland, and it was possible to depose the President of the National Bank and to have him suspended.
– said the PiS MP, adding that “this solution seemed contrary to both the Constitution and European law.”
Therefore, we, PiS parliamentarians, submitted an appropriate request to the Constitutional Tribunal, which was recognized and on January 11 this year, the Constitutional Tribunal admitted that the Law on the State Tribunal violates the principle of independence of the National Bank of Poland, and that the majority necessary to remove the indictment from the president of this bank and thus suspend it must be at least 3/5
– said Szczucki.
He recalled that PiS parliamentarians had submitted a draft law amending the law on the State Tribunal “in January.” As he said, “This bill has not been considered to this day.”
Marshal Hołownia claimed that he had no freezer in his office, but only after a month did he send the bill to the Constitutional Responsibility Committee for the first reading, and the first reading has not taken place to this day. This is the reality of parliamentary work. This also means that the request to indict the President of the NBP before the State Tribunal cannot be considered, and today the currently ruling coalition of liquidators has submitted just such a request to depose Adam Glapiński and hold him constitutionally liable to set.
– he pointed out.
Szczucki also said that PiS MPs had submitted another request to the Constitutional Court on March 6.
This time we question the provisions regarding the operating principles and procedures for the Constitutional Accountability Commission. We believe that this committee should not have the power to investigate the case of the President of the National Bank of Poland, because it also undermines his independence. A body independent of the current political majority should be appointed to investigate these matters
– said the PiS MP.
Activities of Prof. Glapiński
Motion to Prof. Glapiński’s case at the Court of Justice includes eight charges. These include: alleged violation of the Constitution and the National Bank of Poland Act by purchasing assets in 2020-2021. He is accused, among other things, of allegedly “initiating, accepting and implementing actions in 2021-2023 that were contrary to established assumptions about monetary policy.” The attack on the NBP president was reported during the PiS conference.
Accusations leveled against the President of the National Bank of Poland, Prof. Adam Glapiński are in fact compliments to him for carrying out his constitutional and legal duties responsibly and that thanks to his actions Poland has been able to overcome the COVID crisis and the subsequent economic challenges that we have faced and continue to weather well. economic and financial situation. Thanks to him, inflation in Poland dropped significantly. The December 13 coalition’s actions against the NBP president are nothing more than political chutzpah, political games designed to divert attention from Donald Tusk’s incompetence at the expense of state institutions.
– said Szczucki.
There are 8 points that, according to the applicants, actually form the basis for this application. I would like to draw attention to 3 of them. It is alleged that the NBP financed the budget deficit, which is prohibited in the Constitution. This is a false accusation. What the National Bank of Poland did was so-called quantitative easing. This is a practice that has been used, for example, by the European Central Bank for fifteen years
– explained Zbigniew Kuźmiuk.
The second objection concerns the issue of the president first showing the profit and then the loss at the end of the year. Since the president has built up a foreign exchange reserve of 170 billion euros, it is clear that if the zloty strengthens, these reserves, converted at a strong exchange rate, will simply result in a loss, so the president had no choice but to present this paper loss . . The third of these allegations concerns the NBP president’s cooperation with the government majority. In recent years we have had to deal with two situations that do not occur every day. It was COVID and its effects on the economy and Russian aggression against Ukraine
– noted the PiS MP.
As he specified, “the first was related to the economic collapse of the entire world.” He explained that “it was possible to come out of this unscathed thanks to the cooperation of the central bank with the government majority.”
And the second is escaping inflation. Here too, the central bank’s policy was appropriate and the cooperation with the government majority, which did not add money because raising interest rates would be pointless. This accusation about cooperation between the monetary authority and the budgetary authority is therefore a huge misunderstanding. In fact, it was the duty of the central bank to ensure that this cooperation continued
– Kuźmiuk emphasized.
Tusk’s plan for the eurozone
He explained that the current actions against the NBP President are related to the policies of the current Prime Minister, who has a debt to service in the EU.
What we are preparing for is a specific report on the commitment that Donald Tusk made in Brussels. Well, in return for his help in winning the elections in Poland, he most likely committed to at least introducing us to this system during his rule. The RM2 system is the vestibule of the eurozone. And in my opinion, this whole operation has a hidden purpose. Suspension of the President, appointment of a person who, together with the Minister of Finance, will submit such a request to the European Central Bank
– said the PiS politician.
Kuźmiuk explained that Tusk may aim to introduce Poland into the eurozone.
Because the grounds for appealing against the president to the State Tribunal are so weak, the question arises as to what this is all about. Most likely, the intention is to introduce us to the Eurozone, and in particular RM2. This requires the signature of the NBP President and the Minister of Finance
– he pointed out.
The government majority consists of the Minister of Finance, while the President of the National Bank of Poland, Professor Glapiński, has repeatedly said that entry into the eurozone will not take place during his term of office.
– he remembered.
As he explained, “the entry into RM2 is the entry into the Eurozone.”
Then the economy adapts and bears the costs. We as a society bear the costs, and entrepreneurs bear the costs. Our neighbor Slovakia, a country with a similar economic structure, joined the eurozone in 2009. At the time, when the Slovaks entered the eurozone, they were clearly richer than the Poles. Data for 2022 shows that Poland scores significantly higher than Slovakia with its own currency in terms of GDP per capita, as measured by the purchasing power of money. This shows that our own currency is extremely favorable to the trailing countries, allowing us to overtake the most developed European countries.
– Kuźmiuk emphasized.
Waldemar Buda pointed out that Poles have recently been exposed to price increases and are not receiving the promised reductions.
Recently we have experienced a series of events that have hit the Poles very hard. First of all, there is an increase in VAT on food, we have an announcement of the release of energy prices, we have an unfulfilled fuel promise of 5.19 PLN, we all know how much it costs today. Withdrawal from the introduction of the tax-free amount of PLN 60,000
– he mentioned.
As he noted, “If Poland were to join the eurozone, Poles’ purchasing power would decline.”
This has been the case in every country that has joined the eurozone over the past fifteen to seventeen years. You can’t chase the sunset when you’re in this zone. It is obvious. This stops our development momentum
– said Buda.
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Source: wPolityce
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