“Thanks for being honest.” Tusk responds to Nawrocki regarding Braun and Russia

Donald Tusk referred to Karol Nawrocki's interview for "Rzeczpospolita". The president said, among other things: about the threat from Russia, the international situation and the place of Grzegorz Braun's Confederation of the Polish Crown on the Polish political scene.

Karol Nawrocki said in an interview that Russia "has always been and is a threat." At the same time, he emphasized, without mentioning the escalation of Russian provocations in NATO countries, that - in his opinion - the level of this threat had not changed significantly in the last six months.

The president was also critical of Donald Tusk's statements on security, describing them as "the distribution of fear." During the conversation, it was also said that the prime minister is an anti-American politician.

"Mr. Karol Nawrocki stated that he does not see an increase in the threat from Russia. He also does not see a problem with the presence of Braun and his pro-Russian party in Polish politics. Thank you for your honesty," the Prime Minister wrote on the X platform.

Karol Nawrocki about Grzegorz Braun's party

The president was also asked about Grzegorz Braun's Confederation of the Polish Crown, which has been accused of being pro-Russian. Nawrocki said that the group has parliamentary representation and the support of some voters, therefore "it should be treated as present in Polish politics."

The president has never publicly or officially criticized the actions of Grzegorz Braun, for example the protest he organized under the slogan "Stop the Ukrainization of Poland". This event was used by Russian propaganda. On October 7, MEP Grzegorz Braun and representatives of the Confederation of the Crown of Poland appeared in Lubmin, Germany, together with AfD politicians. Together they called on the German government to resume the Nord Stream project and announced a return to the policy of economic cooperation with Russia. At the end of his speech, Grzegorz Braun paraphrased a quote from the movie "Apocalypse Now", saying that he "loves the smell of Russian gas in the morning." Questions can also be asked about Braun being inspired by the policies of Putin and his United Russia party. One of the hypothetical examples could be, among others: that this year, in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the electoral lists of the United Russia party included both active military personnel and veterans of the war in Ukraine. Grzegorz Braun announced that representatives of the uniformed services will be placed 5th on the electoral lists in each of the 41 districts in next year's parliamentary elections in our country.