Polish experts say president’s office should disclose staff pay, paper reports

Poland’s presidential chancellery should release employee salary data, transparency experts told daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, which reported Tuesday that the office argues such questions are not public information.

Poland’s presidential chancellery argues that employee salary data are not public information.

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DGP said the Presidential Chancellery (KPRP) treated a citizen’s request for pay details—covering Chief of Staff Zbigniew Bogucki and the heads of the International Policy Bureau Marcin Przydacz and the National Security Bureau Sławomir Cenckiewicz—as information “ad personam.”

Krzysztof Izdebski of the NGO Stefan Batory Foundation’s Forum Idei told the paper that administrative courts have long established that remuneration of individuals holding senior public functions constitutes public information and must be disclosed.

He called the chancellery’s stance “completely incomprehensible” and not in the institution’s interest.

A similar view was expressed to DGP by Szymon Osowski, head of NGO Watchdog Polska, who also said the data should be made available.

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Source: PAP, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna