It’s nice that Donald Tusk has finally woken up and decided that toxic anti-pissism is not enough and that the Poles have to offer a program. It is a pity that it either promises what others have already promised, ie it borrows program slogans on a large scale, or it promises what others have long since introduced, namely the famous support for women returning to work. The funniest thing is that his party’s politicians follow him and say it’s all a hoax.
We offer PLN 1,500 per month for every mother who wants to return to work after maternity leave
– announced Donald Tusk a few days ago, promising the so-called “grandmother”.
Perhaps it is the long absence from the country that Donald Tusk is not quite sure of the support Polish families can count on. After all, we have RKO, or Family Care Capital. This is a benefit for parents of children from 12 to 36 months – a total of PLN 12,000. PLN for the second and each subsequent child. Whether the money is paid out for one or two years depends on the parents. If we add to this the funds from 500 plus or Dobry Start, mom’s 4 plus pension, the Toddler Plus program, it will come out more than Donald Tusk promised. But apparently the utter distaste for PiS makes it difficult for the PO leader to become familiar with the family support programs already underway. After all, just after returning to Poland from Brussels, Tusk said:
When I hear, “PiS is bad, but maybe it does some things right,” I get furious.
It is therefore not surprising that employees are afraid to tell Tusk what this administration has been doing in recent years. No one wants to risk an attack of anger.
But it really doesn’t matter what Donald Tusk promises, because we immediately hear from his close associates that it will be very different after the election anyway. Asked on TVN24 about the assessment of the proposal, which Tusk called “grandmothers”, MEP Janusz Lewandowski says:
Donald Tusk was expected to have a program beyond the sacramental removal of PiS from power, and this program is emerging. The charm of elections is that those who promise sweat and tears do not win. I believe Tusk’s promises are well kept. Of course, the actual state of public finances will have to be looked at later
said Lewadnowski.
When asked if it meant that the promises would become obsolete after the election, he merely repeated that they were well kept.
And he is not the first to admit that promises to himself and life to himself. Bogusław Grabowski, an economic expert from Platforma Obywatelska, suggested in the media a few weeks ago that to win the election you have to say what the voters want to hear, and then if you win, you have to back out without any doubts of those promises that are too expensive.
Therefore, the saying that no one will give you as much as Tusk promises is still valid. The only problem is that in recent years Poles have become accustomed to pre-election promises being kept. It is doubtful they would want to trust someone who, even among politicians, is known for not keeping his word.
Source: wPolityce