Time to decide if science minister should go, Polish PM says
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said the time has come to decide on the future of the science minister after a scandal involving the ministry disclosing a whistleblower's identity.
"Time to decide on the matter of (Science and Higher Education - PAP) Minister Dariusz Wieczorek," Tusk wrote on the X platform on Monday. "I'll talk about it with the leader of The New Left."
Wieczorek is a member of The New Left, a junior partner in the centrist ruling coalition led by Tusk.
The Wirtualna Polska website wrote last week that Wieczorek's ministry had disclosed the identity of a whistleblower at the University of Szczecin who wished to remain anonymous. Wieczorek said later that the person was not under the whistleblower protection rules, but the whistleblower subsequently faced a backlash from the university authorities.
On Monday, Wirtualna Polska revealed a new embarrassing fact about Wieczorek. According to the website, the minister had failed to report two of his assets in his official parliamentary financial disclosure. (PAP)
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