On Tuesday, what the new government has been saying for a long time happened: Jozef Kubitsa said goodbye to the position of director of state forests. To implement this, an extraordinary session of the Silesian Council was called. His consent to dismissal is required by law. The Law on Provincial Self-Government stipulates that “termination of the employment relationship with a councilor requires the prior consent of the assembly of the voivodeship of which the councilor is a member”.
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Josef Kubica is no longer the director of state forests
On Tuesday Councilors of the Silesian Assembly passed a resolution to remove Jozef Kubica from office. From the post of Director of State Forests. The decision was announced by Silesian activists Civil coalition.
This information was confirmed by the head of the Ministry of Climate and Environment Protection.
Many people expected a real change in Polish forests. Yesterday we stopped and restricted access to the first 10 locations, Today, the current general director of LP, Josef Kubica, was actually fired – said Paulina Hennig Kloska.
The successor of Yosef Kubica is known
He then emphasized that expectations for the new management of state forests are primarily related to “the need for real social control over what happens in our forests.”
I highly appreciate not only the achievements of Mr. Witold Kos, but also his attitude towards forests, not only state forests, but also Polish forests,” said Donald Tusk.
Critical assessments of the power of Joseph Kubica
State forests have come under constant criticism in recent years. Although they claim on their website that the number of forests in Poland is constantly increasing (“the country's forest cover has increased from 21% in 1945 to 29.6% now”, we read), money.pl. We continued to report large-scale cuts in our country.
All this happened under the leadership of Josef Kubica, who in May 2020 became the Director of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Katowice, and in April 2021 – the Director General of State Forests. He is an associate forester Sovereign Poland, because he is an activist of this party. That's why activists influenza They painted faces on cut trees Zbigniew Ziobro.
Civil coalition in December 2022 The prosecutor's office was informed about the possibility of committing crimes in the state forests. The idea was to control the amount spent under the Forest Fund grant and to promote wood architecture and wood as a natural raw material. At that time, the politicians also demanded the dismissal of Yosef Kubica.
Joseph Kubica bought the property for almost nothing
The Supreme Audit Office also had a number of comments regarding this type of sales. In 2023, the Supreme Audit Office found that state forests were selling valuable real estate for next to nothing. “Mostly formally correct, but not always completely economical” – explained to NIK the procedure for renting and managing residential real estate at the disposal of LPs. In 2015-2022, state forests sold almost 2.5 thousand. Real estate in the amount of PLN 46.4 million, despite the fact that their market value exceeded PLN 351 million.
NIK mentioned among others: a retired forester on the case. “During the year, he bought seven properties in seven different forest areas with a total value of PLN 914.5 thousand, for which he paid approximately PLN 71,000. He then entered into pre-sale agreements with the same person for all seven, as well as contracts for four. Transferring ownership from them”, – described in the chamber. A notification was sent to the Prosecutor's Office on the mentioned case.
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