“If the changes after 1989 were limited to that, Poland would be Belarus. The only real depoliticization of these companies is their privatization,” wrote Leszek Balcerowicz on the X platform – for some an “authority”, for others “the father of Polish poverty”. Is he once again trying to say something that the current ruling coalition does not yet dare to say directly, but that has already been expressed many times by other liberal economists who are closer to the Civic Coalition than to PiS, such as Dr. Bogusław Grabowski?
Many liberal economic “authorities”, led by Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz, Ph.D. Bogusław Grabowski or the current Minister of Finance, Andrzej Domański, even many years after the political transformation that was painful for a large part of Poles, defends privatization or believes that it would be a good solution even today. Since these are largely economists closer to the Civic Coalition than to PiS, this may raise concerns that the current coalition, even if it does not say so directly today, was trying to distance itself from Dr. Grabowski.
Reflection on “depoliticization”
However, it seems that the ‘depoliticization’ of state-owned enterprises, which has long been proclaimed by the current governing coalition, Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz.
There is a lot of talk about ‘depoliticizing’ state-owned enterprises. But what does it mean? Replace their CEOs? If the changes after 1989 were limited to that, Poland would be Belarus
– wrote on the X platform.
The only real depoliticization of these companies is their privatization
– added.
Is Balcerowicz simply giving “timid suggestions” to the current coalition, or perhaps he does not understand that we have a very different reality today than in 1989? Or maybe both.
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Source: wPolityce