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Rostowski says he jumped, not pushed

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Peter Gentle 23.11.2013 12:03
Following the reshuffle this week, Jacek Rostowski has said that he was not sacked as Poland's finance minister but thought it was the right time to leave his post after six years in the job.

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Jan Vincent Rostowsdki (right) with PM Tusk in parliament, Friday: photo - Leszek Szymanski

"Some time ago I spoke with the prime minister and said that I thought it was time to go," Rostowski told the TVN24 broadcaster.

"I told him that when its time for a reshuffle that I wanted to leave," he said, though he admitted that he did not when Donald Tusk would announce the wide-ranging change in ministers.

Rostowski, who led the finance ministry since Civic Platform's first general election victory in 2007, said that he had recommended his successor, macro-economist Mateusz Szczurek to Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Jacek Rostowski said that Szczurek, who was chief economist for the central and eastern European region for ING Bank, fully supported his controversial policy to transfer to the state many assets held by private pension funds, in an attempt to slash public debt.

"Nobody would accept the position [of finance minister] if they did not support one of the government's flagship policies," Rostowski said on Friday evening. (pg)

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