Belka continues to de-politcise the senior state posts

The Secretary of State for International Affairs Tadeusz Iwiński resigned yesterday, becoming another Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) member who left the government. According to Rzeczpospolita, Iwiński was supposed to resign several weeks ago as part of Belka's clear out of Miller's political appointees from the PM's Office. However, Belka agreed to Iwiński's request to remain at the post until the summit in Brussels which took place in the middle of June. Tadeusz Iwiński was Miller's main adviser in international affairs and his dismissal is part of Belka's earlier pledge to free the state posts from party politics and to sack all secretaries of state who simultaneously are Sejm deputies. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.K.