““Operation ‘destroy Orlen’ has begun and we can see it clearly after the published report for the first half of the year, which shows very worrying trends in our national champion,” PiS MP Michał Moskal said during a joint conference with former Minister of Agriculture Anna Gembicka. Opposition MPs conducted a parliamentary inspection of the company.
At a conference in front of Orlen’s headquarters, opposition politicians asked about the reasons for the company’s latest disastrous financial results. Due to the huge losses, former Minister of Agriculture, MP Anna Gembicka, and MP Michał Moskal conducted an inspection in Orlen.
The Civic Coalition promised that state financial corporations would no longer be managed by political appointees, but by independent experts and market managers. Civic Coalition market managers turned out to be simply a bunch of losers who lead our national champions to complete destruction.
– said MP Michał Moskal.
Therefore, we would like to ask why Orlen Group’s net profit in the first half of the year decreased by PLN 12 billion 729 million year-on-year, resulting in a net loss in the second quarter of this year of PLN 34 million.
– he added.
The parliamentarian then asked, among other things, whether the new management plans to reduce resources for investments and whether the acquisitions will continue.
What will the investments and acquisitions planned by the Orlen Group and carried out in previous years look like, will the allocated funds for investments be reduced, what about the planned acquisitions, will they be continued and why is the Group, as in previous years, currently not presenting information on the levies paid to the state budget and what profits have been generated, for example, from the synergy effect and from acquisitions carried out in recent years?
– asked an opposition politician.
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Moskal: Operation “Destroy Orlen” has begun
Operation “Destroy Orlen” has begun and we can clearly see this in the report published for the first half of the year, which shows very disturbing trends in our national champion.
– emphasizes Michał Moskal.
This is a decrease in turnover of PLN 43 billion and a decrease in net profit of PLN 12.7 billion. These financial results are devastating
– he added.
As Moskal explained, together with MP Anna Gembicka, he launched a parliamentary inspection in Orlen, with the aim of investigating “what happened during half a year of running this company by the new management that made the company, which was a national champion, generate incredible revenues and also revenues for the state budget, which protected the Poles, are brought to this state in such a short time.
We come with a number of specific questions on issues that are of great concern today and which indicate that Orlen is simply governed by a group of losers.
– he said.
Questions about firing managers
Due to the bad situation at Orlen, we would also like to ask questions about retail sales, because everything indicates that even though the company’s results are incomparably worse than in previous years, profits from retail sales, i.e. what directly burdens the wallets of Poles, in the first half of the year they increased, so this raises the question about Donald Tusk’s certain promise about fuel for 5.19
– emphasizes Michał Moskal.
Where is the fuel for 5.19 and where are these high profits from Orlen Group’s retail sales coming from?
– asked the parliamentarian.
The politician noted that another problem is the “situation regarding the management staff”, and more specifically, the recent dismissal of more than a thousand people from the company.
Very often, it was excellent managers who made it possible for the Orlen Group to generate huge profits year after year and pay huge levies to the state budget in recent years. These people were simply thrown away. What was the cost of these dismissals? How much was the cost of severance pay paid? What was the cost of the paid conditions in connection with the agreements that the parties had concluded with these people? How many people from this senior and middle management were dismissed because they did not work? How much salary did the Orlen Group pay for managers who did not work because the new management simply decided to get rid of them?
– Michał Moskal kept asking.
Orlen’s profits have fallen dramatically, so more questions arise. Did all these newly hired managers set goals? Because those who have worked so far had set goals and implemented them for the benefit of Poland
– he judged.
But we also have reports that are absolutely disturbing about a certain moral state of the current management, because we hear that a man who was previously dismissed for alcohol abuse was working as one of the directors in the main branch of PGNiG. So we would also like to ask a question: how many employees who were previously dismissed from the Orlen Group under Article 52 of the Labor Code have returned to work since February of this year, because it seems that such a situation may not be an individual situation. .
– the PiS politician added.
There will be no port in Świnoujście?
Michał Moskal sees the reasons for the company’s poor results in the paralysis of decision-making after the resignation of former President Daniel Obajtek in February this year.
For months no decision has been made, for example about the investment in the installation port in Świnoujście, and today we hear from the new management that there may not be an installation port in Świnoujście, but there will be an installation port on Bornholm near the Danes’ place.
– pointed to the parliamentarian.
In the context of the paralysis of decision-making, the politician also asked about gas contracts.
Isn’t it a coincidence that the poor results of the Orlen Group stem precisely from the fact that no gas contracts were signed for months, that the company did not make decisions for months when it was time to do so, and made decisions that led to skyrocketing costs in the company, and that these costs were then passed on to ordinary citizens in fuel prices?
– Michał Moskal wondered.
The MP pointed out that in recent years Orlen had not only been a patron of sports, but had also “allocated huge funds for culture, for health care, for athletes in Poland, for all those social needs that were possible thanks to the fact that Orlen simply generated profit and was our national treasure.”
What funds were allocated in the first half of the year in the form of donations by the Orlen Foundation and how much was allocated to sports sponsorship? And what amount is planned in this regard by the end of this year, because today we already hear reports from the past few days that the Orlen Foundation is withdrawing from the contract for investments in the hospital in Ryki. We hear reports that Orlen Oil may withdraw from the Lublin motor company that it sponsors. The question is whether this will also apply to the Orlen team, whether it will apply to all athletes in Poland, whether Orlen will completely close its activities in the field of culture, sports, health and whether this company will still be a national champion or will it limit its possibilities in this way to an economy that is simply cut into pieces and sold piece by piece?
he asked.
Gembicka: Either they are a bunch of amateurs or saboteurs
Civic Platform presented its plans for Orlen back in 2022 and wrote on its official profile about Orlen’s scandalously high profits. If someone has such an attitude that it is scandalous for him that a state-owned company makes a profit, then I think this speaks for itself. We also heard last year the statements of the chief economist of this political camp, Mr. Petru, who may be wrong about PLN 48 billion when preparing draft laws, who then said that these “pseudo-strategic” state finances should earn their money privatized
– recalls Anna Gembicka, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
We remember that the first bill submitted by this political camp was aimed at Orlen. The wind farm law, which led to a 6% drop in Orlen shares. Moreover, directors who ignored the alarm signals of entrepreneurs who said that VAT mafia was rampant in Poland during the previous governments of Platform and PSL, returned to the Ministry of Finance.
– the PiS MP noted.
These people simply tolerated the functioning of the VAT mafia, and let’s be honest, this also affects the situation of Orlen, because one of the reasons for the good results of Orlen in our time was also the fact that the system was tightened, that we fought against the VAT mafia. due
– she added.
It is also worth recalling Donald Tusk’s famous statement about fuel after 5:19. When Donald Tusk said this, the price of a barrel of oil was about $120. Now it is about $79-77
– emphasizes Gembicka.
So what? And after 5:19 we still have no fuel. All this shows that what is being done by the government and the Sejm, but of course also by the board of Orlen, is not accidental. And here we have only two options. Either they are a bunch of amateurs, or they are a bunch of saboteurs
– she concluded.
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Source: wPolityce
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