2024-12-16 14:51 update: 2024-12-16, 14:54
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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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