“President Lech Kaczyński has dismissed Radosław Sikorski from the Polish National Security Council,” informed Marcin Niesiołowski from the President’s Office Press Bureau, Tuesday.

Sikorski, a previous defense minister in the Law and Justice government, announced last week that he was switching parties in the election coming up on October 21 and will be standing for the government’s arch rivals Civic Platform.

Sikorski had remained on the National Security Council, however.

He will now occupy the first place of the Bydgoszcz ballot for Civic Platform.