RPP states support for central bank head
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The National Bank of Poland’s Monetary Policy Council (RPP) issued a statement on Tuesday stressing that it has a very high opinion of the work of its president, Marek Belka.
“The Monetary Policy Council regrets that the utterances made by the NBP President and recorded by way of unlawful eavesdropping may create the impression that the Chairman of the Monetary Policy Council played a part in the political-electoral cycle. Such involvement would be unacceptable,” the statement read.
Belka was recorded during a conversation with Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz discussing the dismissal of then Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski and changes to the law on the NBP. He made critical statements about the RPP, especially about one of its members, Jerzy Hausner.
Hausner was not present at the sitting on Tuesday.
