Czarzasty to Nawrocki: Don't take money from the Polish army

On Tuesday, Speaker of the Sejm Włodzimierz Czarzasty appealed to President Karol Nawrocki to sign the act implementing the SAFE rearmament program. Put away bad advisers, put away evil whispers; I'll do it for my part. Don't take money from the Polish army, he said.

Last Friday, the Sejm accepted four Senate amendments to the act implementing the EU SAFE armament loan program. The amendments include, among others: repayment of loans from outside the Ministry of National Defense budget and anti-corruption protection of the project. The act reached the desk of President Karol Nawrocki.

On Tuesday, Czarzasty published a recording with an appeal to the president on the X platform. – Mr. President, I propose peace between us, at least for a moment, because the matter is important. Let's talk like a president with the Speaker of the Sejm, he said.

– I appeal to you, sign SAFE. You see what is happening in Iran. You see what is happening in Venezuela. You see what is happening in Ukraine all the time. Poland must be strong. The Polish army must be strong. Poland must be strong in the European Union. Poland must be strong in NATO. We must establish – regardless of the difficulties – the best possible relations with the United States, added the Marshal of the Sejm.

– Reject bad advisors, reject evil whispers. I'll do it for my part. Please don't take money from the Polish army. I appeal to you to do it in the name of the country where you are the president and I am the Speaker of the Sejm – concluded Czarzasty.

On Monday, during the European Congress of Local Governments in Mikołajki, President Nawrocki was asked in a conversation with Dorota Gawryluk, among others: for the SAFE Act. He emphasized that he had not made a decision on this matter yet. – I became the president of Poland so that the European Union would not become one country with a voivodeship called Poland. So all these centralization tendencies at the legal and legislative level will affect the Presidential Palace – he emphasized. He added that relationships with the closest and proven allies are very important. But, he noted, “in a world of emerging wars, the only ones we can count on are the soldiers of the Polish Army.”

– When it comes to SAFE, I have to ask myself a public question about a certain communication strategy around this program. Today we live in the belief that without SAFE it is impossible to build Polish immunity – said Nawrocki. – This is such deep political engineering by those currently in power that the entire nation lives in such emotions that Poland cannot be defended without the SAFE program. So I ask myself how it was possible to buy South Korean K2 tanks, Himars, and to arm the Republic of Poland without the SAFE program – added the president then.

As Nawrocki assessed, “Donald Tusk's government destroyed Polish public finances and today it is trying to catch up with this situation.” In his opinion, “without SAFE, the Polish armed forces would simply build up if public finances were managed well.”

Poland is the largest beneficiary of the EU SAFE program – it can obtain approximately EUR 43.7 billion, or almost PLN 200 billion. According to the government's declaration, 89 percent funds from SAFE are to go to Polish arms companies. In its application for money from SAFE, the Polish Ministry of National Defense included a total of 139 projects for the implementation of which the money is to be allocated. They include the most important products of the Polish defense industry, such as Piorun anti-aircraft launchers, Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles and Krab gun howitzers. (PAP)

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