“The recent flood disaster has left people in need in many countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Bavaria is therefore helping Lower Silesia with a large aid supply, including issues for which the Munich authorities have been criticized in the past. The speech includes: about mop covers,” writes the Munich newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
According to the newspaper, Polish flood victims will receive 500 pillows and duvets, 1,000 pillowcases and duvets, 500 sheets, 200 mattresses and 20,000 mop covers. The goods are worth around 155,000 euros and will be transferred to the Lower Silesian Voivodeship “free of charge,” as the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs claims.
All items come from the inventory of the central warehouse in Bavaria, created during the Covid-19 pandemic, and are currently not needed
– we read in “SZ”. Not only are they unnecessary, but Bavarian Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger was heavily criticized for purchasing them in 2020, especially mop covers. He was accused of “not coping with the pandemic,” as I attacked it with mops, and also with mops without sticks.
More than 90 thousand covers were bought by Aiwanger at that time. What is left now goes to Poland. The Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs is pleased because the mops “were useful after all”.
They turned out to be needed. We have many other things in stock that we can use in a crisis
-he noted. I do indeed wonder what else is not needed in German warehouses.
-JJW, sueddeutsche.de
Source: wPolityce