President-elect Bronislaw Komorowski has indicated that he prefers to stay in his own flat rather than move into the Presidential Palace (right) in Warsaw, leaving the security services with a bit of a headache.

Since 1994, heads of state live and work Presidential Palace in the centre of Warsaw. Bronislaw Komorowski, however, is though to be not very enthusiastic about moving into the palace on Krakowskie Przedmiescie, one of Warsaw’s main thoroughfares. He would prefer to stay at his home near the Parliament buildings and work at the Belvedere Palace, towards the south of the city, which used to be the residence of Poland’s heads of state.

There are no regulations to force Komorowski to move into the Presidential Palace. “It’s just a custom to accommodate the highest official in the country at the palace. It is also more comfortable for the president’s security staff,” Miroslaw Gawor from the Government Protection Bureau told the TVN 24 news station.

“If Komorowski decides to live in his flat, he will give police and security services a serious headache and his neighbours will eventually curse him for staying there because their street will be blocked every time he arrives or leaves,” says Jerzy Dziewulski who protected former president Aleksander Kwasniewski. (pg/mg)