The resignations have provoked questions about the state of Poland’s military under the current conservative government at a time of war in neighbouring Ukraine
Poland's Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak, right, talks to conscripted tank crews during a military exercise at the Rinkaby firing range outside Kristianstad, Sweden, on May 6.Two senior Polish military officers resigned over an apparent spat with the defence minister just days before the country holds a general election, with their replacements due to be announced on Tuesday, authorities said.
Polish media have long reported on growing tensions between the two commanders and Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. Poland will hold an election on Sunday, with voters deciding whether the incumbent conservative and euroskeptic government should stay in office for another four years in an unprecedented third term, or whether the pro-European opposition should take power.“It is a symbolic decision.
According to media reports, the minister had recently kept Piotrowski out of the loop on operational decisions like stepping up defences on the border with Belarus or the evacuation of Poles from Israel after the weekend Hamas attack.
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