PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński said he knew nothing about Mateusz Morawiecki’s alleged pressure on the head of the Italian government regarding the new ambassador to Rome. “I am convinced that it is fake; our opponents use lies all the time,” he added.
According to “Gazeta Wyborcza”, former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pressured Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to refuse to accept the new Polish ambassador to Rome, Ryszard Schnepf. In an interview on Thursday on TVN24, the head of the Foreign Ministry, Radosław Sikorski, confirmed that, as far as he knows, the “GW” reports are true.
““The lie is the basic instrument”
When asked about the issue at a press conference, the PiS president said that “he at least does not confirm anything like that and knows nothing about it.”
I am convinced that this is fake. It is just that our opponents are constantly using lies in such a disgusting and ordinary way. Nowadays lies are the basic instrument of governance in this area of social consciousness
– said Kaczynski.
The conflict between the Foreign Ministry and the president over ambassadors has been going on since March this year. Then the Foreign Ministry announced that Minister Radosław Sikorski had decided that more than fifty ambassadors would end their mission, and that several candidates who had been submitted for approval to the previous leadership of the ministry would be withdrawn. At the same time, the Foreign Ministry expressed hope “for joint cooperation of the country’s leading authorities in this matter.”
Wholesale recall of ambassadors
According to the law, the ambassador is appointed and dismissed by the president. The head of the president’s office, Marcin Mastalerek, stated at the time that Andrzej Duda did not agree with the large-scale recall of ambassadors without specific reasons or reasons.
In early June, the president said in an interview for Telewizja Republika that staffing of diplomatic missions is currently “being carried out using methods that come directly from the worst known services – this is what is being done with many Polish diplomats today, and has been for a long time.” According to Andrzej Duda, this has been happening since Radosław Sikorski was head of the Foreign Ministry. Duda also announced that as long as he remains in office, he will not sign the nomination of Bogdan Klich as ambassador to the US. He stressed that his signature would not be on the nomination of Ryszard Schnepf or other members of the Conference of Ambassadors of the Republic of Poland.
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Source: wPolityce
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