The leader of the nationalist conservative party in power in Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who was deputy prime minister in charge of security, announced that he was leaving the government in an interview published on Tuesday June 21 by the PAP agency.
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 73, is generally considered the man who has de facto led Poland since the first victory of his Law and Justice party in the 2015 legislative elections, and his departure from the government will not change anything.
“
I filed my resignation request with the Prime Minister and it was accepted.
As far as I know, the president signed it too
,” the politician said.
His post in government will be given to Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski explained that he had accomplished the plan he had given himself and affirmed that, even if this plan did not foresee war in Ukraine, in the end “
the most important decisions were taken
”.
"
We want to arm ourselves enough so that any attack on our country would be totally unreasonable
."
The leader of the conservative peasant party (PSL, opposition), Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, estimated on Tuesday on the private television channel TVN24 that "
in reality, Jaroslaw Kaczynski is the leader of the camp in power and, whether he is vice- Prime Minister or President of Law and Justice, what matters is that he is the one who makes the decisions.
He is the key person
”.