“The government wants to take away PLN 70 million, which was intended to serve the truth and memory. Is the memory of our history really that difficult for this government?” – asks PiS member Piotr Müller. This is how the opposition politician commented on Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s announcements about cutting funding for – strangely enough – those institutions to which the December 13 coalition had not presented its nominees. In this specific case, the MEP was of course talking about the Institute for National Remembrance.
While “populism” has recently become something that Polish, European and global liberals and leftists scare their children with (often using the term in the wrong sense and applying it to everything they disagree with), Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his government in Poland He is climbing to the heights of populism. He has already used the case of a child tortured by his mother’s common-law partner to attack his political opponents, but even earlier he, like his party colleagues, was deeply concerned. for children suffering from cancer We know how this concern ended after the current government took power and introduced ‘strong people’ into the public media.
Yesterday, Donald Tusk decided to make use of ‘little patients’ again in a populist manner. He informed about one of the elements of next year’s budget, namely cuts to the institutions. Strangely enough, these are the areas where the December 13 coalition has not yet succeeded in installing Gorgosz or Korneluk.
When we talk about healthcare today, I would like to inform you that in next year’s budget we are proposing cuts to the President’s Office, Mrs Przyłębska’s Tribunal, the Institute of National Remembrance and the National Broadcasting Council. Small patients are waiting for this money
– he wrote on the X platform. The Prime Minister received contextual information under this message, which on social media, loosely translated, means that it is not quite as the author of the message suggests.
“What is stopping the government from investigating history?”
Piotr Müller, PiS member of the European Parliament, commented on Tusk’s accession, and specifically on the cut in funding for the Institute of National Remembrance.
PLN 70 million less for the Institute of National Remembrance. What prevents the government from researching and popularizing Polish history? The IPN is about discovering the truth about our past, remembering heroes and fighting the distortion of Polish history. Every zloty invested in this mission is an investment in patriotism and awareness of future generations. Today the government wants to take away PLN 70 million, which was intended to serve the truth and memory. Is the memory of our history really that difficult for this government?
– he says in a recording published on the X website.
Donald Tusk’s government wants to reduce the IPN budget by almost 70 million PLN ❌ Are patriotism , research into our history and the truth about Poland an obstacle for the current government? The Institute of National Remembrance is a bastion of the struggle for national memory: it issues publications , researches our past and popularizes history. Is the memory of our history really that difficult for this government?
– writes Müller Müller.
Maybe we should be happy that they wanted to liquidate it a few years ago, and yet “only” cut the funding, although in practice it still ends the same way.
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Source: wPolityce