In an interview with Plus Minus, the deputy prime minister and defense minister said that after taking over as head of the ministry, he was often asked to break contracts signed by his predecessor. As PSL leaders emphasized, he did not do that. – We knew that if we violated such obligations, we would never be able to reform the military, – he said.
The Defense Ministry chief also said that former minister Antoni Macierevich canceled the Caracal helicopter contract because “I know better.” “We do not yet have a multi-role helicopter,” the deputy prime minister added.
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As Kosiniak-Kamish said, he chose the position of Secretary of Defense because of his focus on “prudent continuity.” “I felt that the department needed someone who could work with the various centers of power, including the president,” he added.
In his opinion, the PSL party brings pragmatism and considerations for security and a healthy economy to the current government. Additionally, the deputy prime minister said the prime minister had shown within the department that “law and justice can effectively hold people to account.”
“We are trying to analyze Antoni Macierevich's modus operandi,” the Defense Ministry chief said. This is a reference to the conclusions the ministry presented at the end of October from the report of a team investigating the work of the Smolensk Disaster Review Subcommittee, headed by Macielevich.
A few days later, the full report and 41 notices were sent to the National Prosecuting Authority. – I think I was the only one to achieve that in one year. He added that it is fully compatible with the Ministry of Defense's current operations.
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamisz: Poland must be ready to fight
During the conversation, the Secretary of Defense emphasized that Poland must be ready to fight. Furthermore, according to the Deputy Prime Minister, “We live in times where anything can happen.''
– We should remember this every day (…). This awareness must be spread as widely as possible in countries bordering the conflict, he said. – That is why we have military education in schools, we spend holidays with the military, and that is why we establish civil defense, – he said.
The Deputy Prime Minister, the Secretary of Defense and the PSL President were also asked whether claims that the PSL supports PiS-backed presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki should not be true. He is said to be the director of the Institute of National Memory.
Kosiniak-Kamisz said this was “an argument that Poland needs an institute of national memory.” He added that the institute was established thanks to party votes. “We worked with the Right and Freedom Coalition to overturn President Alexander Kwasniewski's veto on this issue,” he said. – We have never supported the liquidation of the Institute of National Memory. And we won't, he added.
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