Minister Siemoniak expressed surprise at the president’s spokesman’s public comments on a confidential meeting about alleged special services involvement in the election campaign.
Confidential Meeting Details
During a private meeting at the Presidential Palace, which lasted nearly three hours, participants included President Karol Nawrocki, Vice-Premier and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister-coordinator of special services Tomasz Siemoniak, and heads of special services. The president received reports from all four service heads regarding the most important security matters.
Siemoniak’s Response
“There were moments of tougher conversation, differences of opinion,” Siemoniak stated, adding that “it was a normal conversation that should take place in a state.” He expressed surprise that the president’s spokesman spoke so much about the topic given the meeting’s confidentiality clause. “Absolutely, special services were not involved in the election campaign,” Siemoniak affirmed, stating that the president heard directly from service chiefs how the situations looked.
President’s Expectations
“President Nawrocki expects an explanation in the matter of suspected involvement of special services during the election campaign,” said presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz. The president emphasized his expectation of full explanations regarding all suspicions and assumptions about the involvement of special services in the electoral process, particularly in the context of disclosing information from presidential candidate security clearance files or other cases where information from special services reached journalists.
The Apartment Affair
The “disclosure of information” mentioned by Leśkiewicz referred, among other things, to reports about Nawrocki’s apartment in Gdańsk, whose previous owner was his acquaintance Jerzy Ż. PiS politicians suggested that information was passed to journalists by the services, which MSWiA firmly denied. Onet journalist Andrzej Stankiewicz, who first described the apartment affair, explained that all property documents are public in Poland, including land registers showing no mortgage on the apartment, which was acquired without a loan.