Half of Polish diplomatic missions without ambassadors. What is the government planning?

According to RMF FM journalist Kacper Wróblewski, in China and Romania the branches will certainly be managed by chargé d'affaires - formally full representatives, but with a lower protocol rank. This is what is happening in over 50 countries after Radosław Sikorski first recalled over 50 ambassadors in 2024 and then appointed their successors, who were not accepted by President Andrzej Duda and now Karol Nawrocki.

“It is not the president's role to force ambassadors to resign.”

At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that it was the president himself who encouraged the ambassadors to resign in recent days. Regarding the ambassadors, I have to correct my earlier statement, because I thought that it was Mr. President's staff that encouraged the ambassadors to resign from their posts and to abandon their mission. It turned out that the president did it himself. It is not the president's role to force Polish ambassadors to resign - said Radosław Sikorski yesterday.

When asked where he got the information on this subject, Sikorski replied: "we have this knowledge at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." These words concerned ambassadors Kumoch and Soloch. They were mentioned even before the information about Szczerski's resignation was announced.

The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs publicly lies and blames his incompetence and incompetence on his colleagues in the government of the President of the Republic of Poland - Marcin Przydacz, head of the International Policy Office of the KPRP, commented sarcastically on Sikorski's statement.

The third ambassador resigns

After these words, information appeared that Ambassador Krzysztof Szczerski asked the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to shorten his diplomatic mission to the UN. "Minister Sikorski agreed to this request. Ambassador Szczerski will finish the mission this month," said Maciej Wewiór, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Monday.

"Another Polish Ambassador resigns. This time it is Prof. K. Szczerski - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the UN. After the Polish ambassadors in China and Romania, he is the third high-ranking diplomat who does not want to endorse the lawlessness of Donald Tusk's government with his person. The context is obvious," Przydacz wrote in a comment.

Crisis in the Constitutional Tribunal

Jakub Kumoch and Paweł Soloch announced that their decision was a reaction to the situation regarding the Constitutional Tribunal.

The crisis at the Tribunal occurred after the announcement on Friday of a break in the activities of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and the Vice-President, Bartłomiej Sochański. Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, elected by the current Sejm, was considered the person in charge of the Tribunal's work. Then, tensions and demonstrations broke out in front of the Constitutional Tribunal's headquarters, and the police appeared on site.