Only what is obvious. “In a situation like this, it doesn't make much sense.”
At At 3:00 p.m., a meeting of the National Security Council convened by President Karol Nawrocki will be held at the Presidential Palace. Marshal of the Sejm Włodzimierz Czarzasty sent a letter to the president with an appeal to exclude Grzegorz Braun's Confederation of the Crown of Poland from the National Security Council meeting. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, Marcin Kierwiński, appealed to Karol Nawrocki for the same.
The extreme right-wing group of Grzegorz Braun - who recently said that he "loves the smell of Russian gas in the morning" - has pro-Russian views, which is why the government considered it impossible to discuss the issues of Poland's security or cooperation with Ukraine. However, the president did not exclude representatives of Korona Braun from today's National Security Council meeting.
When asked about this issue on TVP Info, government spokesman Adam Szłapka said in the morning that Prime Minister Donald Tusk would nevertheless appear at the National Security Council meeting.
Of course, the Prime Minister will participate in the National Security Council. President Karol Nawrocki decided that he wanted, in fact, several dozen people in the room. This includes people who openly speak out in a pro-Russian way, such as representatives of Mr. Braun. He won't be there because he is an MEP, but the chairman of the Korona Polska group will probably be there. This means that the entire discussion will take place in such a way that only information that is public will appear - said Adam Szłapka.
In such a situation, it makes little sense, because if the president wants to exchange classified information, he should organize it in such a formula that there would be no such problem - emphasized the government spokesman.
He added, however, that the president has all the information produced by the government, necessary for its functioning, secret or top secret.
The president will "receive with dignity", "give a hand"
In turn, on TVN24, the president's spokesman, Rafał Leśkiewicz, announced that despite the tensions regarding the Constitutional Tribunal, Karol Nawrocki "will receive the incumbent prime minister with dignity" at the National Security Council because "the president respects the rules of democracy." He also said that "the president will shake the prime minister's hand in greeting."
Why should Grzegorz Braun's representatives be excluded?
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Grzegorz Braun has been consistently calling for completely cutting off Ukraine from all aid - Polish and European.
There are numerous other controversies associated with Grzegorz Braun. On December 12, 2023, he extinguished Hanukkah candles in the Sejm with a fire extinguisher. One person was injured during this incident. It was a doctor, Magdalena Gudzińska-Adamczyk, M.D., who tried to stop the MP and block his way. In April 2025, Braun broke into the hospital in Oleśnica, where - according to the prosecutor's allegations - he illegally deprived the doctor Gizela Jagielska of her liberty, pushed and held her, and also insulted and slandered her in connection with the performance of her professional duties.
On May 6, 2025, MEP Grzegorz Braun burned the European Union flag in Katowice. On June 11, 2025, he destroyed the "Rainbow Opole" exhibition in the Sejm dedicated to the rights and history of LGBT+ people. On July 10, also in 2025, he called the gas chambers in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau a "fake".
What topics are to be discussed at the National Security Council?
At today's meeting, the participants are to talk - according to the announcement - about broadly understood issues of Poland's security, the construction of a permanent US military base in our country, as well as the stalemate situation related to the Constitutional Tribunal.
The National Security Council consists of: the speakers of the Sejm and Senate, the prime minister, the ministers of defense, foreign affairs, interior affairs and administration, the coordinator of the secret services, representatives of parliamentary clubs and groups, the head of the National Security Bureau and the head of the presidential office.
