On the 15th month anniversary of the Smolensk catastrophe, after the funeral Mass in the Holy Trinity Church in Przemyśl, Marshal Marek Kuchciński attended a meeting with the residents of Przemyśl in the auditorium of the Higher School of Administration and Management.

Andrzej Matusiewicz, a candidate for the Senate, and Beata Kołcz, Barbara Krajewska and Stanisław Bajda, candidates for the Sejm, met with the residents.

Marshal Kuchciński reminded that in 1995, during the presidential campaign, in the same building of the former cinema 'Bałtyk', the late Lech Kaczyński, then a candidate for the post of the President of Poland, met with the inhabitants of Przemyśl. "Lech Kaczyński - this is the whole history of the fight for regaining the independence of Poland", said Marshal Kuchciński, recalling the patriotic activity of the tragically deceased President, starting from the 70's, as well as his connections with Przemyśl and Podkarpacie.

M. Kuchciński: "Today we have to set for ourselves the same goal, which was set and realized by President Lech Kaczyński: "to live normally in an honest Poland, with a sense of security that the Polish state takes care of us, and at the same time retaining the bond with the history of our nation and pride in its achievements, not only military but also economic, for example those made in interwar Poland.

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President Lech Kaczyński's key concept of solidarity in domestic politics meant concern for the common good, i.e. the even development of the country, rather than - as the current government does - favouring and concentrating development funds only in Warsaw and a few other largest cities. At that time, the Development of Eastern Poland Program was created, implemented by the government of Jarosław Kaczyński, under which many billions of zlotys were allocated for the most necessary investments, including infrastructure in neglected regions such as Podkarpacie. Unfortunately the current government has cancelled many of these planned investments, such as the two-lane road from the Lithuanian border to the Slovak border in the Podkarpacie region, or the expressway from the freeway junction in Radymno to the bypass in Przemyśl and to the border in Medyka with a branch to the then planned new road border crossing in Malhowice.

At the same time, continuing Marshal Piłsudski's geopolitical goal, Lech Kaczyński pursued this great vision: to unite the countries that had managed to break free from Soviet hegemony against Russia's resurgent imperial aspirations, and at the same time, in agreement with the Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks and Lithuanians, to create a force within the European Union that no one could impose policies incompatible with their interests. Because the European Union, contrary to what one reads and hears in the most popular media, is a grouping in which each state fights selfishly for its own interests.

The best example of this is the construction of the northern gas pipeline by Russia and Germany, bypassing Poland and thus depriving it of the financial benefits of transit, and at the same time marginalizing our ports in Swinoujscie and Szczecin, because it prevents the entry of large ships. The current prime minister and minister of foreign affairs think that it does not matter, while president Lech Kaczyński opposed this project, which is clearly harmful to the political and economic interests of Poland.

M. Kuchciński appealed to voters to choose October 9 as a chance to strengthen Poland's independence and to strongly support, among others, the young generation of Poles so that they can better develop themselves and our common homeland.

Among numerous voices of the inhabitants, the speech of the representative of "Solidarity" trade union from the Company Commission in the Regional Hospital in Przemysl was particularly impressive. He criticized the liquidation of the post of medical dispatcher in Przemysl undertaken by the present governmental authorities (in fact 5 posts of dispatchers serving 6 emergency teams which in turn serve 137 thousand inhabitants of the city and county of Przemysl).

The unions try in vain to find out from the authorities why Przemyśl was excluded from this plan and the posts of medical dispatchers were planned only in Krosno, Sanok, Rzeszow and Mielec. As a result of this change, to call the emergency service in Przemysl one will have to call for example Rzeszow, Krosno or Sanok. A social movement for saving the dispatch centre of the Emergency Medical Service in Przemysl was formed and Artur Zając, also on behalf of this movement, appealed to those present at the meeting for support.

Andrzej Matusiewicz, a lawyer (on behalf of himself and the Law and Justice party), one of the founders of the local government system in Poland, strongly supported the demand to keep the Ambulance Service dispatch center in Przemyśl, which would serve the better functioning of the state medical emergency service in this significant urban center and in the whole region of the former Przemyśl Province. This is all the more obvious as Krosno and Sanok are only 42 kilometers apart, and no town in the eastern frontier of the province has been designated as a dispatch centre.

As he informed, the City Council of Przemyśl and the Seym of the Podkarpackie Province passed a resolution unanimously supporting retaining the dispatch centre in Przemyśl. The resolutions with appropriate justification were sent to the Governor of Podkarpacie and to the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister, however, the local governments do not have any direct influence on the decisions of the government or the Governor.