Donald Tusk (left) with Bartosz Arlukowicz. Photo: PAPDonald Tusk has proposed a post of Secretary of State at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery to Bartosz Arlukowicz, a politician linked to the Democratic Left Alliance.
The announcement was made during a press conference, Tuesday morning, at which Donald Tusk said Arlukowicz would work in organising contacts between the government and state administration, as well as people “who feel excluded.”
“From the outset we have had a number of similar ideas,” Tusk said, adding that “we came to the same standpoint very quickly, as well as having a similar outlook on some issues.”
Even though Bartosz Arlukowicz is technically an independent MP, he started his 2007 parliamentary campaign from the Democratic Left Alliance electoral list.
During the press conference, Bartosz Arlukowicz reasoned his decision by influenced by the ongoing cooperation of the Democratic Left Alliance and major opposition Law and Justice in the Sejm lower parliamentary house.
“For many I have been forced to vote arm-in-arm with [Law and Justice leader] Jaroslaw Kaczynski on a number of various issues important for the [Polish] State,” Arlukowicz said.
“I think that now is the time to get on with positive and energetic work and concentrate on getting things done,” the leftist politician added.
Bartosz Arlukowicz said that if he receives such a proposition, he may well start from the Civic Platform electoral lists in autumn’s general election.
The statement goes against his comments in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita daily in January, when Arlukowicz said that he plans to stand for election again as part of the Democratic Left Alliance’s electoral list in the Baltic city of Szczecin, where the party’s leader Grzegorz Napieralski will also be hoping for re-election. (jb)
Source: PAP/TVP Info