Poland's National Remembrance Institute to get new head
PR dla Zagranicy
Agnieszka Łaszczuk
18.07.2016 08:21
A new president for Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) is to be elected on Monday, after a public hearing.
The HQ of IPN in Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
A recently appointed 10-member commitee will question the candidates in the presence of reporters, and later elect one of them by an absolute majority of votes.
Four historians have announced their candidacy: Marek Chrzanowski, Zbigniew Romek, Jarosław Szarek and Paweł Ukielski.
The new president will have to be cleared by the lower chamber of Parliament, and then the Senate.
The IPN was set up in the late 1990s to investigate past crimes against the Polish nation.
A new bill on the Institute of National Remembrance, prepared by the governing Law and Justice party, entered into force in June.
The current IPN President is historian Łukasz Kamiński. (ał/pk)
Source: PAP