Dariusz Wieczorek of the left was kind enough to say that the hundred details of the Civic Coalition, that is to say, the ironclad set of election promises that had to be fulfilled during the first hundred days of the government, were a metaphor with which no one in their right mind would accept must be attached. The Minister of Science is a rock ‘n’ roll guy (particularly a rock ‘n’ roll drummer), so he has a relaxed approach to life. But we have to assume that governing a country of 40 million people is a little more serious than keeping the rhythm with a snare drum and hi-hat. And campaign commitments to voters should be taken seriously, too. Otherwise, they have every right to feel cheated.
And that is also true in this case. We cannot ignore this statement by Wieczorek about 100 special features of Radio Plus:
I treat it as a metaphor because in reality we all know that some things won’t be possible.
If it’s not possible, why promise? Because promising twice is the same as keeping your word once?
In the new issue of the weekly magazine “Sieci” I look at how the December 13 Coalition manages to keep its word regarding specific number 68. It said:
At companies with shares in the Ministry of Finance, we dismiss all members of the supervisory board and the board of directors. We will carry out new recruitment in transparent competitions in which competences will be decisive, and not family and party connections.
Even a high school graduate from the near future who will go through Barbara Nowacka’s neutered educational system can understand this sentence in only one way: that it is an announcement of the dismissal of all supervisory boards and boards of directors of state-owned enterprises and the announcement of competitions for positions on supervisory boards and boards of directors.
In the meantime, the supervisory boards are already largely filled and we have had ZERO competitions for places on them.
It was enough to make political decisions by ministers (sometimes on state assets, sometimes on climate or defense), for which the ground was prepared by the business council operating in the Prime Minister’s Chancellery. Donald Tusk placed his trusted soldier in charge: Grzegorz Karpiński, who served as Deputy Minister of Sports and Internal Affairs and Administration in the previous Platform (and PSL) governments.
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The Council needed only six weeks in the new year to positively assess 199 candidates for supervisory positions at companies. Effect? They are extremely partisan, although it must be admitted that parities were mostly maintained and the sinecures went to the nominees of all the parties that formed the coalition. The exception to this is Poland 2050 by Szymon Hołownia, who created a media spectacle by dismissing his man (he co-created the structures of Hołownia’s formation) from the Orlen supervisory board. We hear nothing about the dismissal of the rest.
Mr Michał Gniatkowski – he was a candidate for the Sejm of the Polish 2050 lists, but did not get in, so as a consolation he got a job at Enea – stated that he did not intend to withdraw from his new job, but preferred to stop the party activities. Apparently, a full-time job at the Mazovian Marshal’s Office with Adam Struzik and the Siedlce Provincial Hospital Board of Trustees is not enough for this master craftsman.
People from Poland 2050 can also be found in the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska added three activists and one to the board of directors of the ten-member council), the National Food Group, the National Real Estate Resource and PGE (here we have an energetic PL activist 2050 Andrzej Sadkowski, whose last post on the X platform contains a celebratory image from October 9 with the slogan: “Fat cats, pack your litter boxes!”).
Post-communists from the SLD (phew, New Left!) brought out figures such as prof. Marian Noga (educated in the Polish People’s Republic by the communist military counterintelligence service, PhD from Leningrad State University, a strong supporter of extending the retirement age), Mirosław Sobczyk (many years ago councilor of Szczecin, publisher of Leszek Miller’s book ), or Ireneusz Sitarski. The latter is currently an acting member of the board of directors of Orlen, an activist of the association Ordynacka – the source of Włodzimierz Czarzasty’s staff, who once headed this body, but today it is managed by… the aforementioned Dariusz Wieczorek. Sitarski oversaw privatizations in Leszek Miller’s government, and more than a decade earlier worked in President Wojciech Jaruzelski’s office.
PSL not only attacked institutions such as the Polish Hunting Association (remember the party member Eugeniusz Grzeszczak? Today he heads the PZŁ as a national hunter nominated by Minister Hennig-Kloska) or agricultural agencies such as ARiMR, but also took care of the nominees in SSP, for example the Polish Armaments Group.
There is also a long list of names whose fates (read: colleagues with ministerial portfolios) have not yet indicated which sections they will be thrown into. In this group we find figures like Beata Bieniek-Wiera (plenipotentiary of Rafał Baniak, former Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance in the governments of Tusk and Kopacz, arrested and charged together with Włodzimierz Karpiński – in Baniak’s case the charges are VAT crimes and money laundering – hero of the moral scandal in the restaurants Sowa and Friends and Amber Room), Rafał Wiechecki (formerly LPR’s Minister of Maritime Economy, today the defender of Senator Stanisław Gawłowski accused of seven crimes in the so-called melioration scandal), Rafał Zahorski (plenipotentiary of West Pomeranian Marshal Olgierd Geblewicz for maritime economy), Paweł Bartoszewski (PO activist, another protege of Geblewicz), Karolina Ryder (an employee of the office of PSL MP Jarosław Rzepa ) and Mariusz Mandat (PSL activist).
I highly recommend the new issue of “Sieci” which has much more detail on the ongoing major corporate robberies.
This roller runs smoothly and quickly. And the TKM principle (now, f…, we!) has probably never been applied so rigorously.
Source: wPolityce