According to Tusk, during the ceremony marking Poland's presidency in the Council of the European Union, Nawrocki, alongside a group of activists, participated in a protest under the slogan Polexit (the hypothetical exit of Poland from the EU. – "GORDON").
"The question is simple and deadly serious: do you want a president who will build a safe and strong Europe, or one who, along with [the illegitimate president of the aggressor state RF Vladimir] Putin and his allies, will destroy it?" – Tusk wrote.
When together with President Trzaskowski and Marshal Hołownia we inaugurated the Polish presidency, K. Nawrocki was demonstrating with a group of activists under the slogan Polexit. The question is simple and deadly serious: do you want a president building a safe and strong Europe, or one who,...
— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) January 4, 2025Nawrocki responded to Tusk on social media X, claiming that he supports Poland in a united Europe but opposes ideas that are "harmful to the country." He considers the migration pact, the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur countries (an economic union of states in South America), and the "green" course as such harmful ideas.
"Yesterday I was among Polish farmers whom your subordinates reassured before the Sejm last year. As for Putin – I don’t know him, but from photographs, I suspect he is your friend. So tell him that I am not afraid of his searches either," Nawrocki wrote.
I am for Poland in a united Europe. A strong Poland, which has suffered from the political machinations of our placed political friends, i.e., the migration pact, the agreement with Mercosur, or the green deal. Yesterday I was among Polish farmers whose subordinate services pacified under...
— Karol Nawrocki (@NawrockiKn) January 4, 2025The Polish newspaper Wiadomości suggested that Nawrocki was referring to a joint photograph of Tusk and Putin taken in 2010 in Smolensk, Russia, at the site of the crash of the Polish government Tu-154M, which carried then-President Lech Kaczyński with his wife and 86 members of the government delegation – all of whom perished.
Another joint photograph of Tusk and Putin, often mentioned by representatives of Poland's right-wing forces, was taken on the pier in the Polish city of Sopot in 2009. At that time, Putin was the Prime Minister of Russia and visited Poland to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, the publication notes.
According to Tusk, this conversation lasted only a few minutes, the newspaper quoted.
The announcement of the rally organized by the Union of Agricultural Organizations of Poland noted that one of the issues that farmers will protest against is the import of grain from Ukraine.
Previously, Nawrocki, commenting on the exhumation of the victims of the Volhynia tragedy, referred to Galicia as "Little Poland".