Who is the new head of the Supreme Audit Office? Mariusz Haładyj elected by the Sejm almost unanimously
During Friday's votes, 421 deputies supported the candidacy of Haładyja, four were against, and six abstained. The absolute majority, necessary to choose the head of the Supreme Audit Office, was 216 votes. Now the Senate must express their consent to the decision of MPs.
According to our interlocutors, Mariusz Haładyj is passionate about road cycling. It's a demanding sport. It requires good condition, diligence and durability of the long -distancer. You need to be able to ride in the peloton, but also know when to accelerate and whose near catch to get to escape.
Mariusz Haładyj is just starting a new stage of his professional race as the president of the Supreme Audit Office and the successor of the six -year term in this position in this position of Marian Banas.
For Mariusz Haładyj, NIK is a well -known environment, because there he began his career in public administration.
– Mariusz as the president of the Supreme Audit Office is a sign that there is still a chance for Poland, a chance to break the polarization. Apolitical professional, a state -owner, worked in both the rule of Donald Tusk, Ewa Kopacz, Beata Szydło and Mateusz Morawiecki – notes us a friend of Haładyja, who came into contact with him while working in the government.
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State -owner
Our interlocutors describe Haładyj as a quiet, modest official who, thanks to diligence, professionalism and the fact that he has never threatened his bosses, for years he has been consistently climbing career levels. According to them, the position of the head of the Supreme Audit Office seems to be the peak of his professional aspirations – noise has no political ambitions.
The key to his nomination for the head of the Supreme Audit Office is many years of close cooperation with Maciej Berk, head of the permanent committee of the Council of Ministers and the closest associate of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Their cooperation strengthened in the second term of PO-PSL rule, when they worked together on the implementation of better legislation principles in Poland promoted by the EU.
It comes, among others for serious treatment of consulting bills. Together with the tag and noise, among the promoters of these changes was the current head of the Chancellery of the Sejm Jacek Cichocki and the then deputy head of the permanent committee of the Council of Ministers, and later the president of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection Adam Jasser. It was then that Haładij established strong relations with these prominent characters of the ruling camp today.
In the PiS government, Haładyja's subordinate in the development department was another close associate of Berka, today the head of the government legislation center Joanna Knapińska.
NIK controller
Mariusz Haładyj is a graduate of law at the Catholic University of Lublin and postgraduate studies in company law at the University of Warsaw. After graduation, he made a legal advisor application in Warsaw.
From 2002 he practiced at the law firm, and a year later he went to the Supreme Audit Office. He is still a vacation employee of this institution.
He did the controller application two decades ago and in 2003-2006 he reached the NIK from an inspector to a specialist in state control. He worked in the Department of the Economy, Treasury and Privatization, where he dealt with, among others controls regarding the restructuring of state -owned companies.
In 2006 he made an internship in a permanent representative office of the Republic of Poland at the European Union in Brussels in the Economic Contact Department.
He went to the Ministry of Finance from the Supreme Audit Office (2006-2008), where he also dealt with controlling public money and supervising tax inspections.
For many years deputy minister from the economy
Haładyj to the Ministry of Economy came in 2008 during the rule of the PO-PSL coalition. The ministry – until 2012 – was managed by the then president of PSL Waldemar Pawlak. He started as the head of the Expert Department, from 2009 he was the deputy director responsible for the faculties of economic and financial law. In 2012, he was promoted to the deputy minister of the economy, he performed this function until 2015, when the ministry was managed by Janusz Piechociński, who replaced Pawlak not only in the ministry, but also at the head of the PSL.
In an interview with Business Insider Polska Piechociński cannot do Haładyja. He emphasizes that he is distinguished by his competence and diligence.
– He worked with me for three years, he was delegated from NIK. He is an outstanding expert on economic law, a workaholic, he is also distinguished by the fact that he focuses on consultations and dialogue, including business. He is always well prepared, he can critically approach the issues he takes care of, but he can also defend his position – emphasizes Piechociński.
The former president of PSL adds that at that time noise was responsible for work on the so -called fourth deregulation act. – A year after the fourth deregulation, we were the highest in history in the then published by the World Bank Ranking Doing Business, it was also due to Haładyja – he recalls.
Resistant to political changes
In 2015, after the PiS victory in the election, the Ministry of Economy was transformed into a development department, whose management was taken by Mateusz Morawiecki. As the only member of the PO-PSL government, he maintained the position of deputy minister responsible for economic regulations. According to our interlocutors with Morawiecki, he had correct but not particularly close relationships. During this period – on the wave of the strategy for responsible development – he conducted many legislative initiatives, with the Business Constitution (on which he started work as a subordinate Piechociński) at the forefront.
During this period, he also forced a very important reform in the form of a new public procurement law.
During the PiS rule, Haładyj also carried out a proprietary reform of the Code of Administrative Procedure, a package of 100 amendments for companies, or the Act on the Successive Management Board facilitating the succession of sole proprietors. He also began work on the Act on the Founders by the Act on a simple joint -stock company.
However, he failed to implement an idea for the reform of the inspection system in Poland. It is, for example, a sanitary inspection, controlling the quality of food, commercial or environmental protection. He had the ambition to consolidate these entities so that they work more efficiently and efficiently.
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Head of state lawyers
Haładyja was appointed by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki as the president of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Poland at the beginning of 2019.
The prosecutor's office is in a simplified law firm. He represents them in court disputes in the country or in international arbitration. The game is often overlapped by the amounts of compensation going in billions of zlotys.
During the presidency of Mariusz Haładyj, the General Prosecutor's Office boasts several great successes in matters that seemed to be lost. It comes, among others for a dispute with the Abris investment fund about the bank he belonged to, which he sold under pressure from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. Despite the arbitration by the investor in Stockholm, the Polish side managed to reach the Swedish Supreme Court with this topic and win the case there. Recently, the prosecutor's prosecutor's arbitration in the Dutch court Leszek Czarnecki, whose banks were forcibly restructured because they were threatened with falling.
The prosecutor's office also represented the state, among others With collective lawsuits in pandemic, which concerned restrictions on conducting business activity during the so -called lockdown.
He is distinguished by apoliticality
Noise, originally associated with PSL, He has been standing on the side of the political dispute for years. In this respect, he is a man from the previous era, when the polarization in Poland was not as strong as today. It is very difficult to enter it in today's divisions, hence his choice as the head of the Supreme Audit Office is a swallow of hope for supporters of the end of the “Polish-Polish war”.
In the new role he will face the task of rebuilding the authority of the Supreme Audit Office, which under Marian Banasia gained the name of “Republic of Banasiowa”.
Haładyj forced new solutions everywhere – e.g. in the prosecutor's office he introduced a mechanism of amicable dispute resolution.
During a public interrogation in the Sejm in connection with the election of the President of the Supreme Audit Office, he proposed 10 priorities to improve the work of this institution. In his opinion, the Chamber in its controls should focus more on the effectiveness and rationality of the operation of controlled institutions, and not only on the formal legality of their actions. He also talked about the need to involve non -governmental organizations in planning control, improving communication with citizens or the use of artificial intelligence in the work of controllers.
According to our interlocutors He never makes changes, he is careful, he always wants the introduced solutions to be thought out, agreed with stakeholders, including the market. Therefore, a violent revolution should not be expected under his rule, but an evolutionary change in approach to more market.
Has a workaholic opinion
Business Insider Polska interlocutors point out that he sends the last emails to colleagues at 1am, and the first – at 6 am.
He is a very demanding boss, his employees often have to be ready to answer the most detailed questions. At the same time, it is very direct, it does not build a distance – he also contacts with substantive lower -level employees, and not only with directors. He can be cholera, but he is not memorable or vindictive. He values people like him involved in work. Hence, his closest associate, since working in the development department, is Luiza Modzelewska, currently vice president of the General Prosecutor's Office. He is very loyal to him and, according to our interlocutors, very ambitious, smart and effective. She also has the opinion of an extremely demanding boss.
Haładij ideologically is closer to conservatism, and economically – rather liberal. He has three children, his wife also works in administration. He knows English and Russian. He is an avid cyclist. He is passionate about basketball, especially the American NBA.
Authors: Sonia Sobczyk-Grygiel, Bartek Godusławski, Business Insider Polska journalists
