The president of PiS called him “disloyal”, the president called him a friend. Marcin Mastalerek has been shining more than his senior in recent days. It annoys the PiS environment. Some believe it allows the president to remove landmines. They say that he is smart and very ambitious, with a specific plan. – Currently, it has no political weight. It was as if he was saying: I have a president, don't hesitate to use it. The question is how much Andrzej Duda will be able to protect him. Because, in spite of everything, Mastalerek is in conflict with Kaczynski and his immediate environment – says Dr. Miroslav Ochkoś, a specialist in political marketing.
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“The tail wags the dog. Mastalerek's hyperactivity can seriously harm Duda”; “Mysterious like Marcin Mastalerek. Who is Duda's closest collaborator?” ; “The president's friend, the president's cross” scream the headlines of the articles in which journalists draw profiles. Marcin Mastalerek.
The 40-year-old politician entered the media once again. This time as the head of the political cabinet Andrzej Duda. changed Pavel Shrotwho became a PiS deputy.
Mastalerek immediately began to shine in the media. And he once again insulted PiS politicians when he announced on Radio Zet after the parliamentary elections that “President Kaczynski should resign from politics.”
Then some concluded: Andrzej Duda will try to “free himself from the bonds of PiS”. Others simply say that Mastalerek has too much influence on the president's policies. He is hyperactive. His brilliance may surpass that of Andrzej Duda.
An important PiS politician requests anonymity and assesses Mastalerek's activities as follows: – This is a childhood disease of a newly created official with access to the media. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but in this position you are expressing the views of your boss, not presenting yourself as a star.
A strong vice president
Wislav GalazkaThe expert of political image and media communication evaluates the new head of the presidential administration: – Mastalerek is effective when it comes to communication. His speech is undoubtedly better than Andrzej Duda's. He is a more talented, pro-PiS politician with a higher IQ level.
– What Duda can't or doesn't want to say, Mastalerek says. Minister Mastalerek is better at politics than President Duda, says Dr. Miroslav Ochkoś, political marketing specialist. However, he believes that Mastalerek misjudged him to be playing beyond his abilities. – So far, this has not had any positive effect. His reaction to the president's veto of a budget-related bill was quite juvenile. Later it turned out that Tusk took advantage of this. This is the difference between the first league and a contender for the first league – says Ochkosh.
Mastalerek quickly earned the nickname “Vice President”. – It should be noted that during the time of Andrzej Duda, a strong “Vice President”, the head of the President's Cabinet, appeared. Marcin Mastalerek. Mr. Mastalerek has a great influence on the president's policy, said Seim speaker Shimon recently. Love it.
It was Ochkosh who called Mastalerek “Vice President” for the first time. – At least I don't abuse it. Marcin Mastalerek acts as if he is the president, not in the American system, but in an equal system. Mr. Mastalerek's political ambitions are written on his forehead, Ochkosh tells us.
For Mr. Marcin Mastalerek, this is a second chance, maybe even the last. If he does well in this triple jump and finally bounces back from Andrzej Duda, he can jump high in politics. I think his ambition for the next 10-15 years is to be the prime minister.
Sam Mastalerek on TVN24: – I am the state secretary, the minister. Do you know how strong my position is? It depends on the mood of the president.
It was created by Brudzinski
Mastalerek's ambitions were always high. He set his sights high and had to plan his entire political career in advance and divide it into stages: adviser, deputy, promotion in party structures. Mastalerek is 84 years old. In 2003, he studied international relations at the University of Szczecin and joined the PiS youth wing.
As he said in an interview given to “Dziennik”, his entry into politics was supported by Joachim Brudinsky, who noticed him in the PiS youth wing. When Mastalerek was in his fourth year of study, a PiS politician offered him a job at the party's headquarters on Novogrodzka Street. He did not hesitate.
Mastalerek fulfills the previously established plan: in 2010 he becomes the chairman of the PiS advisory club in the Lodz assembly, and a year later he becomes a PiS deputy. According to Brudzinski's advice, he is running from Sieradze (getting 8,509 votes).
Duda-Mastalerek duet
Mastalerek's career in PiS is growing rapidly. He is less than 30 years old and becomes the deputy spokesperson of the party. When in 2014, due to the so-called Madrid scandal, Adam Hoffman loses his position, Mastalerek replaces him as PiS speaker. It is closer to the ear of President Kaczynski.
He also starts cooperation with PiS MP Andrzej Duda. In the autumn of 2023, when Mastalerek was appointed as the head of the political cabinet, the president recalled: – On November 27, 2013, almost exactly 10 years ago, I was informed of the decision of the PiS political committee that I would take the job. The position of the speaker of PiS and the parliamentary club. It was a surprise for me then, it was a dynamic situation and I took this position. At the same time, Jaroslaw Kaczynski informed me that you will help me. We barely knew each other then. We knew each other as colleagues on the benches of the Parliament, but we never worked closely together. Andrzej Duda then says that after some time he discovered that Mastalerek is still a political child. But also: – I realized very quickly that I was dealing with a man who had the greatest responsibility for this (the work – ed.). This made a big impression on me. In 2015, Mastalerek was one of the main organizers of Andrzej Duda's winning presidential campaign. They are friends. Mastalerek claims that it was he who convinced the president to elect the deputy of Krakow.
Either Kaczynski or Mastalerek
Despite the huge success, Mastalerek does not participate in the parliamentary elections. “Almost at the last moment, Kaczynski took him off the list. Before that, at the meeting of the party authorities, the president had to say: 'Either me or Marcin Mastalerek.' , – writes Dominika Wielowieska in “Gazeta Wyborcza”. What did Mastalerek have to do to get under the skin of Jaroslaw Kaczynski? Various stories are circulating. One of them: Mastalerek, during dinner in a restaurant, did not answer the phone of the president of PiS, who called him about election advertising .One more thing: Beata Szydlo, whom Mastalerek supposedly “invented” as the future prime minister, started to struggle after taking this position.
Kaczynski was worried and began to investigate who was behind it, who rebelled against Beata. The main roles in Duda's staff were played by political marketers Anna Plakvich and Piotr Macchuk, as well as Mastalerek. The president understood that he was trying to encourage the future prime minister to show independence. Therefore, Kaczynski preferred to get rid of Mastalerek, to get rid of the future government, because Szydlo should be completely subordinated to Novogrodzka, and the president did not want someone to build an alternative center in his camp.
Out of politics, but with Duda
It was Beata Szydło who, after being expelled from PiS, Mastalerk had to employ in PKN Orlen. In 2016, he became the director of corporate communications of this company. But not for long. He quickly established his own consulting company. Two years later, he became the vice-president of Extraclass. Although Mastalerek was officially out of politics, he was still close to President Andrzej Duda. Behind the scenes, he is said to have recommended vetoing, for example, judicial bills. And he certainly helped in the second presidential campaign. Mastalerek told Michalo Kolanko: – A big and expensive congress was organized in February, but there was no message. nothing. Then I gave a TV interview and said. PiS increasingly said that a wave was coming that could take the president. There were rumors that there was a pandemic, nothing could be done, the other side was having its moment, trends and social mood were unfavorable. That's why I called the president and said: you are a good president, you deserve to be re-elected, but things are going badly. I want to help. And the president decided that my help was needed.
friend
2020 year. Election evening in Pultusk. Andrzej Duda celebrates his victory in the survey. First, the most important members of PiS applaud the common success: Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, his predecessor Beata Szydlo. The President thanks them and also mentions their staff, including: Joachim Brudzinski. But he addresses special words to Marcin Mastalerk: – I want to thank my friend Marcin Mastalerk, he is no longer an active politician, but he came to save our homeland and helped us in our daily personal work, strategy study, further preparation. actions with us.
The next day there was a reaction from Novogrodzka. On Website X (then still Twitter), Brudzinski mentions “the real heroes of the campaign” and thanks them “with all my heart.” Skips mastalerka. He is appreciated by Andrzej Duda. In September 2020, he appointed Mastalerek as his political adviser. And three years later, the head of the political cabinet.
Several PiS politicians do not want to talk about Mastalerk at all.
One of them answers anonymously and diplomatically: – I will not comment on the behavior of Mr. Mastalerek, because the value of my statement would be negative for the president.
An important PiS politician believes that Mastalerek does not know what he is doing: – He seems to be having fun with his new role. And he puts his own fun ahead of his principal's interests. That's how I see his statements when he comes out in the morning and says what the president will say in his evening speech. This is an important position, but an official one. A person in such a position earns respect by his actions, but also by the extent to which he reflects the will of his superior. We hear a lot about the effect she has on her boss… It's clear that she tries too hard to shine with her own light rather than the light that is reflected.