We have adopted a resolution based on which: minister Finance will become the Polish state’s representative in financial institutions, including the World Bank – which would mean the dismissal of Jacek Kurski. He no longer represents the Republic of Poland in financial institutions – Tusk said during a press conference.

Poland’s representative in these institutions is the minister responsible for public finances, namely Minister Domański. We will appoint a replacement in due course. I can only assure you that it is someone who has no knowledge of banking, economics, […] who is not the boss campaign election of any political party – added the Prime Minister.

Kurski lost his position after one year

In December 2022, National Bank Poland (NBP) informed this Jacek Kurski rHe began working as alternative executive director at the Swiss-Polish World Bank Group Constituent Assembly in Washington.

After the Prime Minister’s press conference bank Central informs that the representation of the interests of the Republic of Poland in international banking institutions, incl World Bank, is the exclusive competence of the President of the NBP.

“The Legal Department of the NBP informs that the representation of the interests of the Republic of Poland in international banking institutions, including the World Bank and the EBRD, is the exclusive competence of the President of the NBP. These issues are clearly regulated Act of 29 August 1997 concerning the National Bank of Poland – art. 11 section 3: ‘The President of the NBP represents the interests of the Republic of Poland in international banking institutions and, unless the Council of Ministers decides otherwise, in international financial institutions.’ This means that the Council of Ministers only has the authority to appoint representatives of the Republic of Poland to international institutions that have the status of financial institutions. With the adoption of the Polish National Bank Law, the 1986 Council of Ministers resolution, which provided for the nomination of candidates for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, lost its main rationale in terms of its subject matter. affairs. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers and orders of the Prime Minister are not sources of generally accepted law. This regulation is internal and only applies to organizational units under the body that issued the law (Article 93(1) of the Constitution). Therefore, they cannot refer to the National Bank of Poland,” we read in the central bank statement.