he head of Krakow's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics has resigned after covertly recorded material implicated her husband in an attempt to pay a media outlet for favourable press.
MP Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, who has resigned from her post as head of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022. Photo: PAP/Stanislaw Rozpedzik
Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, an MP in Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Platform party, insisted, however, that she had not known about her husband's conversations last week with the editor of local web site lovekrakow.pl.
“I am sorry about the situation, but it did not arise from any direct guilt on my behalf,” she claimed.
“For the sake of the Krakow 2022 Winter Olympics project, I have taken the decision to resign as chairman of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022,” she added.
Marczulajtis-Walczak, a former Olympic snowboarder, commented that she had been in Turkey for a conference when her husband held talks on the matter.
She added that her husband, Andrzej Walczak, was never a member of the committee, and so was not authorised to take part in any negotiations concerning the campaign.
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he head of Krakow's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics has resigned after covertly recorded material implicated her husband in an attempt to pay a media outlet for favourable press.
MP Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, who has resigned from her post as head of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022. Photo: PAP/Stanislaw Rozpedzik
Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, an MP in Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Platform party, insisted, however, that she had not known about her husband's conversations last week with the editor of local web site lovekrakow.pl.
“I am sorry about the situation, but it did not arise from any direct guilt on my behalf,” she claimed.
“For the sake of the Krakow 2022 Winter Olympics project, I have taken the decision to resign as chairman of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022,” she added.
Marczulajtis-Walczak, a former Olympic snowboarder, commented that she had been in Turkey for a conference when her husband held talks on the matter.
She added that her husband, Andrzej Walczak, was never a member of the committee, and so was not authorised to take part in any negotiations concerning the campaign.
- See more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/168203,Krakow-Winter-Olympics-bid-chief-resigns-after-media-sting#sthash.SVANK1qs.dpuf
he head of Krakow's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics has resigned after covertly recorded material implicated her husband in an attempt to pay a media outlet for favourable press.
MP Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, who has resigned from her post as head of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022. Photo: PAP/Stanislaw Rozpedzik
Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, an MP in Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Platform party, insisted, however, that she had not known about her husband's conversations last week with the editor of local web site lovekrakow.pl.
“I am sorry about the situation, but it did not arise from any direct guilt on my behalf,” she claimed.
“For the sake of the Krakow 2022 Winter Olympics project, I have taken the decision to resign as chairman of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022,” she added.
Marczulajtis-Walczak, a former Olympic snowboarder, commented that she had been in Turkey for a conference when her husband held talks on the matter.
She added that her husband, Andrzej Walczak, was never a member of the committee, and so was not authorised to take part in any negotiations concerning the campaign.
- See more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/168203,Krakow-Winter-Olympics-bid-chief-resigns-after-media-sting#sthash.SVANK1qs.dpuf
he head of Krakow's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics has resigned after covertly recorded material implicated her husband in an attempt to pay a media outlet for favourable press.
MP Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, who has resigned from her post as head of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022. Photo: PAP/Stanislaw Rozpedzik
Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, an MP in Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Platform party, insisted, however, that she had not known about her husband's conversations last week with the editor of local web site lovekrakow.pl.
“I am sorry about the situation, but it did not arise from any direct guilt on my behalf,” she claimed.
“For the sake of the Krakow 2022 Winter Olympics project, I have taken the decision to resign as chairman of the Krakow Competition Committee 2022,” she added.
Marczulajtis-Walczak, a former Olympic snowboarder, commented that she had been in Turkey for a conference when her husband held talks on the matter.
She added that her husband, Andrzej Walczak, was never a member of the committee, and so was not authorised to take part in any negotiations concerning the campaign.
- See more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/168203,Krakow-Winter-Olympics-bid-chief-resigns-after-media-sting#sthash.SVANK1qs.dpuf
The head of Krakow's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics has resigned "after covertly recorded material implicated her husband in an attempt to pay a media outlet for favourable press," according to POLSKIE RADIO. Jagna Marczulajtis-Walczak, an MP in PM Tusk's Civic Platform party, insisted, however, that "she had not known about her husband's conversations last week with the editor of local website lovekrakow.pl." Marczulajtis-Walczak, a former Olympic snowboarder, commented that "she had been in Turkey for a conference when her husband held talks on the matter." She added that her husband, Andrzej Walczak, "was never a member of the committee, and so was not authorised to take part in any negotiations" concerning the campaign (
POLSKIE RADIO, 4/14). The AP reported Polish organizers of Krakow's candidacy for the 2022 Winter Olympics "will meet Thursday to decide on their next steps" following Marczulajtis-Walczak's resignation. Krakow is one of five cities bidding for the 2022 Games, along with Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing; Lviv, Ukraine; and Oslo (
AP, 4/14).
