Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday, Poland’s National Independence Day, invited President Karol Nawrocki to a pre-Christmas meeting at his home in Sopot. “I want to invite you, Mr. President, together with your wife, with your family, with your children; let’s talk,” he said.
On Wednesday, during the christening ceremony for the new ferry “Bursztyn Unity” in Szczecin, the head of government addressed the president, saying: “Mr. President, we were supposed to meet, and I waited a bit for that invitation, but from the heart, then, without waiting any longer, I want to invite you, together with your wife, with your family, with your children, to my home in Sopot.”
“Let’s share the opłatek (Christmas wafer) before Christmas Eve, let’s talk. My apartment is not big, but there will be room for the two of us in the kitchen at the table, and we will talk the way people used to say, as one Pole to another,” Tusk said.
He stressed that Poland is worth a conversation between the prime minister and the president, that it “is worth the solidarity of Polish women and men.” “Let’s not waste this great effort, let’s not waste this miracle that has happened to us, again in our history. Let’s not waste these wonderful moments when foreigners from all over the world come here and say, ‘It’s impossible — this is the most wonderful place,'” he said.
“We can’t waste this. Let’s be together in difficult moments and in moments of our national happiness. Poland has not yet perished, so long as we live (a line from the national anthem). It has not perished and never will,” the prime minister said. (PAP)
