Sejm elects Glapiński as new NBP governor

With 284 MPs voting for, 124 against and 34 abstaining, the lower chamber of parliament has chosen presidential candidate Adam Glapiński as the new president of the central bank NBP.  He will replace Marek Belka, whose six year tenure ends this month. Glapiński is a central bank board member and a former member of the Monetary Policy Council (RPP). He also worked as an advisor to late president Lech Kaczyński. In his latest public speech he claimed that if he becomes the president of the central bank he will protect bank's independence. He was also in favor of incorporating the financial watchdog KNF into the structures of the NBP. In March, Belka told private radio broadcaster TOK FM that Glapiński would be a good president of the bank after him. "I hope he will continue the present policy. I sincerely wish ... him this," Belka said.