Prime Minister Donald Tusk decided on Wednesday to dismiss, among other things, Andrzej Przylenski as director of the Institut de République. Personally, he is the husband of the extremely controversial president of the Constitutional Tribunal, Yulia Przylbska, who has supported PiS for years.
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As CIR reported on Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk On Wednesday, he fired Michal Kot as director of the Generation Institute and Konrad Vnek as director of the War Loss Institute. Jan Karski and Andrzej Przylenski from the position of director of the Institute of the Republic.
Tusk fired Yulia Przylbska's husband
The latter was appointed as director Institute of the Republic In February of last year. In January 2022, he completed his diplomatic mission in Berlin, where he was the Polish ambassador.
In late December 2023, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Jan Grabiec, informed the PAP that Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed the council members: Institute of War Losses, Institute of the Republic, Institute of Central Europe, Institute of Generation and Institute of the West.
– Such decisions were made and concern not only the board members of this institution, but also other institutions created by PiS and whose activities have been severely criticized in recent years due to financial abuse, on the one hand, and, on the one hand, on the other hand, the appointment of managers, As well as supervisory functions in these institutions by people directly from the PiS environment or by people closely related to them – Grabiec explained this decision to the PAP, as quoted by the portal Onet.
Let's remember that By statute, the Institute of the Republic was established After that, former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and opposition politicians argued Employing Pzhilensky there maybe”An example of political influence“.
De Republica is an institution whose purpose is to promote and popularize Polish science. Its website states: “Our main tasks include the support, promotion and promotion of domestic research in the field of humanities and social sciences, including the implementation of various types of projects related to the idea of statehood and its activities.” De Republica organizes, among others: press conferences, and also founded a publishing house of the same name. The institute, as clearly stated, “reports directly to the Prime Minister”.
Did Andrzej Przylenski work for security in the past?
At the beginning of March 2017, the Institute of National Remembrance released the file of a secret employee of the SB, nicknamed “Wolfgang”. The documents showed that it was Andrzej Przylenbski. However, the Institute of National Memory did not confirm that Przylenski cooperated with the Security Service.
Before that, a note was circulated: “In accordance with patriotic duty and wanting to contribute to the maintenance of law and order and the triumph of truth in the Polish People's Republic, I agree to provide assistance to the security service.” I will keep this fact a complete secret. I carefully and reliably inform the security service about interesting events and facts.” “I take the pseudonym Wolfgang.” According to the agreements “Gazeta Wyborcza” Przylenski should have been recognized by the intelligence service as an attractive “Germanology worker”.
However, according to the Institute of National Remembrance, Przylbski, despite the signature, never entered into real cooperation. He also emphasized that he did not cooperate with the services of the Polish People's Republic.