The appointment was announced after Duda's previous top foreign policy adviser, Jakub Kumoch, said on Thursday he was stepping down, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
In a statement shared on Twitter, Kumoch said: "Today, at my own request, with President Duda’s consent and as agreed a few months ago, after a year and a half of very intensive work, I am stepping down as head of the president's International Policy Bureau.”
Kumoch said he was stepping down “for family reasons,” adding that Duda would soon entrust him with “a new, responsible and exceptionally interesting mission.”
At a ceremony in the presidential palace on Thursday, Duda officially accepted Kumoch’s resignation and decorated him with the Knight’s Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order, a major Polish state honour, “for outstanding work in the diplomatic service and for representing Poland abroad."
At the same time, Duda appointed Przydacz as his new foreign policy adviser and head of the International Policy Bureau, reporters were told.
Kumoch had been Duda’s top foreign policy aide since July 2021. Earlier, he served as Poland’s ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein (2016-2020) and Turkey (2020-2021).
Przydacz has left his role as a deputy foreign minister to become Duda’s new top foreign policy aide.
From 2015 to 2019, he served as deputy director of Duda’s Foreign Affairs Bureau.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, rp.pl, prezydent.pl