
During the Independence Day celebrations in Szczecin, Prime Minister Donald Tusk extended an invitation to President Karol Nawrocki, which prompted a reaction from the head of his cabinet.
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The statements were made in the context of the celebration of the National Independence Day and the ongoing political dispute around the Constitutional Tribunal.
Donald Tusk unexpectedly turned to President Karol Nawrocki during the celebration of the National Independence Day in Szczecin.
Mr. President, we were supposed to meet. I've been waiting for this invitation for a while, but from the bottom of my heart, without waiting any longer, I want to invite you, your wife, your family, your children, to my house in Sopot, he said. He noted that he would like to share the wafer with the president before Christmas Eve.
During the Independence Day celebrations, the President did not directly refer to Donald Tusk's invitation. The Prime Minister's words were commented on by the head of his cabinet.
Paweł Naszaernaker said that Donald Tusk always plays the role of someone he is not. "Yesterday a democrat, today a dove of peace," he noted. "He talks about unity, but on each subsequent national holiday he runs away from a joint state gesture with President Nawrocki. It was enough to stay in Warsaw. It was enough to lay a wreath together in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," he said.
Karol Nawrocki, performing at pl. Piłsudski in Warsaw, referred to systemic issues and the conflict around the Constitutional Tribunal; he said that "the system of the Polish state and the Constitution of the Republic of Poland are inviolable." The constitutional bodies of the Polish state should be outside of political disputes, he declared. He added that the issue of state security must be excluded from the political dispute. It, my dear compatriots, belongs to everyone, regardless of their political views and what they think about some politicians and other politicians, said the president.

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