Maciej Nowicki. Photo: Environment Ministry

Maciej Nowicki has handed his resignation to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has accepted it.

 

Nowicki explained that his resignation is a result of an agreement with the Prime Minister. “I agreed to fulfill certain tasks, not to serve a full term as a Minister of Environment,” said Nowicki.

The minister assured that he managed to successfully carry out the task assigned to him two years ago. “The Prime Minister has told me that I completed my job not 100, but 200 percent,” said Nowicki and revealed that Donald Tusk called him the best Minister of Environment.

Media, however, speculate that a sudden and rather unexpected decision to resign was caused by a conflict between Professor Nowicki and Stanislaw Gawlowski, Civic Platform MP, who is said to replace the Minister of Environment.

Professor Maciej Nowicki held the post of the Minister of Environment in Donald Tusk’s cabinet from 16 November 2007 and in Jan Krzysztof Bielecki’s cabinet from 1989 to 1991. Nowicki was a researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Warsaw University of Technology.

In 1992, Nowicki established the Eco-Fund Foundation. He was also a deputy chairman of the UN commission on Sustainable Development and advisor to the Secretary General of the OECD (mg/jb)