Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said officer promotion requests for two intelligence services would be resubmitted to the president.
He made the remarks after a nearly three-hour closed-door security briefing at the presidential palace in Warsaw.
Kosiniak-Kamysz said the government would send the promotion applications again to the President's Office, adding: “We can look more optimistically at the president’s goodwill in this matter.”
The dispute centers on officer nominations in two agencies: the Internal Security Agency (ABW), Poland’s main domestic security and counterintelligence service, and the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), which protects the armed forces from espionage and other internal threats.
The president has not signed the nominations since early November, arguing that he had not received key information about state security and complaining that meetings with intelligence chiefs were canceled by the government’s leadership.
Kosiniak-Kamysz said he expected Nawrocki to accept most of the submitted nominations, while stressing that the final decision on each individual rests with the president.
He described Thursday’s talks as “long, substantive and productive,” and said the government was ready to fully brief the head of state on the development of Poland’s security services, both civilian and military.
Tomasz Siemoniak, the government minister responsible for coordinating Poland’s security services, said he hoped the meeting would close what he called an unnecessary conflict in the political dispute.
He said the briefing included a review of threats and priorities for each service, and that the heads of the agencies answered questions from the president and his team.
Siemoniak said differences of opinion emerged, but the exchange remained polite, and he highlighted cooperation with allied partners, including US intelligence services.
Kosiniak-Kamysz said such meetings would be held regularly, at least every six months or more often if needed.
He added that presidential representatives already take part in weekly meetings of a government committee for national security, alongside the heads of the security services.
Presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz told reporters that Nawrocki had received briefings from security service chiefs on key national security issues, "primarily the identification of threats to the security of the state and its citizens."
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Source: IAR, PAP