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Sikorski announces resignation as Polish Parliament speaker

Xinhua, June 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz announced that Radoslaw Sikorski, the Speaker of the Lower Chamber of Polish Parliament, declared that he would resign from the office.

Kopacz said, "I had a very difficult discussion with Radoslaw Sikorski. A very difficult, because I know how important it is to maintain equal division between political factions among the legislative and executive power in Poland. Sikorski declared that he would resign from his office."

Kopacz, acting in the name of the Civic Platform party, also apologized the CP supporters for all they could heard in the recordings of the top-level politicians, including Radoslaw Sikorski, who were eavesdropped in one of Warsaw's restaurants in 2014. The recordings were made public the same year.

The investigation files analysing the eavesdropping scandal were also leaked to the media. As a result of the leaks, Kopacz said that she would not sign the 2014 report prepared by the Public Prosecutor General, Andrzej Seremet.

Kopacz also announced that all ministers and vice-ministers, who were eavesdropped and whose talks were made public, had resigned from their posts. Enditem