Andrzej Duda on CPAC: I believe that Poles will choose freedom and honesty, not cynicism and bastard
I deeply believe that in the election Poles will choose freedom and honesty, not cynicism and bastard – said President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday in Jasionka. He also added that from the beginning of his presidency he has been doing everything to strengthen ties with the United States.
Duda was one of the speakers during the CPAC conference taking place on Tuesday in the Jasionka in Podrzeszów. According to the president, this place has recently had a special dimension for Polish-American relations. “This is a place where until recently the United States Army soldiers were accommodated until recently, who kept the care of Poland here, and they kept over what was happening in Ukraine,” he emphasized.
According to Duda, building an alliance with the USA is the greatest guarantee of security and the duty of Polish authorities. “It was the US who helped end World War I, the US won a great extent in World War II,” he pointed out. “From the very beginning of my presidency, I do everything to strengthen ties with the United States. I think this is the duty of every President of the Republic of Poland,” he said.
In his opinion, the need for cooperation with the USA results from our historical experience. “The affairs of our part of Europe, its history, its painful cards President (USA) Donald Trump knows and understand. I believe that with him our relations with the USA will develop,” he added.
Duda expressed gratitude to the Americans that during the conflict in Ukraine they strengthened their presence in Poland. He also reminded that the American base in Redzikowo operates in Poland.
“I am glad that we can safely talk about the fact that in recent years we have cemented an alliance with the United States in various ways, by building this alliance in the formula of strengthening military ties, through the presence of American soldiers, through the presence of American military infrastructure in Poland,” said the president.
In this context, he also mentioned shopping, including American tanks Abrams, Patriot and Himars rockets for “tens of billions of dollars”.
In Duda's opinion, the duty of every Polish president is to strengthen the alliance with the US, which is why he added – he has already met President Trump several times and was at previous CPAC conferences.
In Duda's opinion, it is also necessary for the first nuclear power plant in Westinghouse to be built in Poland. “This is necessary to provide us with energy security, but it is also necessary to strengthen the strategic alliance with the United States. I call everyone, and in particular I call on the government, the current Polish authorities, to make it implemented,” the president appealed.
Referring to the ending presidential campaign, he said that the candidate “the conservative option, the patriotic option is in a brutal, cruel, even bandit way, often attacked by many multiple slander.” “But I believe it deeply that despite (this) everything that happens, that Poles do not agree to it, to such treatment, such behavior, such an immensity of lie in the media. In the elections, Poles will choose freedom, honesty, not cynicism and tearing,” he said.
Duda reminded in Jasionka that in two months he finished his term, but he stipulated that he hopes that he would continue to serve Poland “in various ways”.
He also expressed the hope that similar conferences of conservative communities from the USA and Poland will take place cyclically. “Long live a conservative thought, let Poland live, Long live an alliance with the United States,” Duda ended his speech.
CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) is an annual conference taking place in the past in the US, in which conservative politicians and activists from around the world are involved from the 1970s. In recent years, CPAC has also been organized in other countries, including in Hungary, or like this year in Poland.
A group of people who kept the flags of Palestine and the transparent “CPAC is responsible for genocide” protested in front of the facility in which the conference took place for several hours. (PAP)
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