Michał Kobosko made the declaration in an interview with public broadcaster Polish Radio on Friday.
Kobosko, who is deputy head of the centre-right Poland 2050 party, was referring to media speculation that the pro-European Union opposition parties preparing to take power in Poland could privatise the state-run multi-utility Orlen Group, the PAP news agency reported.
Kobosko said that "given the current military threats and the fuel crisis," selling "strategic companies such as Orlen" to private investors "is out of the question."
The opposition politician added that state-run companies "must be run effectively" and "freed from party-political influences."
Kobosko said that Orlen "manipulated fuel prices at the pump" and "bought up local newspapers" for political reasons under Poland's conservative government.
"That won't happen in the future," he declared.
Kobosko's Poland 2050 and the liberal Civic Coalition (KO) recently submitted a bill to freeze the prices of electricity, gas and heat for households and public-sector consumers until June, the PAP news agency reported.
Kobosko told Polish Radio that parliament would "process the bill very fast" to ensure that "the costs of living won't rise from January."
Polish MPs are likely to elect Civic Coalition leader Donald Tusk as the country's new prime minister on December 11, to head a Cabinet made up of four pro-EU opposition groups, including Poland 2050, the parliamentary Speaker in Warsaw said on Wednesday.
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Source: IAR, PAP, wnp.pl