NEWS

20/08/2025

10:18

"Time to Shed the Shorts and Don Suits": Sawicki on the President's Recent Conduct

Michał Olech

Well, I'd say the Chancellery supposedly has some experienced people and some new ones. As Prime Minister Donald Tusk aptly put it yesterday: "first cats over the fence" – they're still learning the ropes. The Chancellery is still learning. It seems to me that when one takes on the most important office in the state, the office of the head of state, it's not a time for learning, but a time for professional action, and that professionalism is lacking. Because if, just to provoke, for fun, one tries to flood the Sejm with draft laws for which there are no prepared presumed regulatory effects and financing, well, then we have to clearly state that we're playing a game of cat and mouse. That is, the cat chases the mouse in such a way as not to catch it – stated Marek Sawicki in the program "24 Pytania" on PR24, when asked about the recent activities of the president and his chancellery.

So it's high time for the President's Chancellery to engage in serious politics and serious matters. It should truly treat the state seriously, and not play at harassing those currently in power and preparing a place for its political circles in two years' time, because it will simply lose by doing so […] So, Mr. President, if you want to be, so to speak, a heavyweight contender, a statesman, then certain matters are simply inappropriate to pursue – he continued.

I, however, attribute all of this to the holiday season. And frankly, the newly forming office, the forming chancellery of the President, has forgotten that holding office is not a holiday, that it's time to take off the shorts and put on suits and treat matters seriously – concluded Marek Sawicki.


Michał Olech