Yachts, saunas, mobile coffee makers – the net turned up erstwhile it found out how its activities – with backing from the National Reconstruction Plan – want to differentiate entrepreneurs from HoReCa sectors in the event of another economical shock. This was undoubtedly the coronavirus pandemic, and many actors in the manufacture are inactive affected.
Of course, money from KPO goes to many sectors and areas of social life. It's an injection of infrastructure, wellness care, schools, railways. For now, however, attention is focused on the HoReCa sectors. – any depict the boat as the main point of the KPO. That's not true. The digitalisation of Polish schools alone was PLN 5 billion, says MP Kinga Gajewska.
Controversy around KPO for HoReCa
With the money from the KPO, the owners of hotel, restaurant and catering companies were to add a second pillar of the business so that erstwhile the first for any reason ceases to function, the construction would not collapse. After all, there would be another origin of income that would aid to keep at least any of the jobs. So many assumptions.
In practice, it turned out that the green light from the regional operators of the programme had, for example, been requested to co-finance the extension of the pizzeria’s activities to solarium. Eventually, the money for the solarium did not flow due to the fact that the papers were withdrawn by the restaurant owner herself. But the yachts are.
The net has been swarming with entries criticizing the government for giving money away. There were besides pictures and genre scenes – entrepreneurs drinking drinks with a stake on a tropical island; of course for the money of all of us.
– It's economical illiteracy to say that erstwhile a hotel buys a yacht, it's to supply luxury to the owners. It's like saying that airlines buy airplanes so that the president can fly them on vacation," said economist Prof. Witold Orłowski in an interview with TVP Info. However, he besides stated that it was crucial to measure the proposals.
Irregularities in KPO. Proceedings of the prosecution and government
On Friday, the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, of its own motion, undertook verifications of irregularities in the grant from the KPO.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk besides announced an explanation. "Anyone who has made mistakes will endure (or has already suffered) consequences. Regardless of position and organization affiliation. And the fact that the PiS is lying and manipulating this case is no excuse. For no one," wrote the head of government on X.
At the beginning of the week, Tusk switched to the offensive and recalled that the founding of the KPO program for HoReC had been developed by the erstwhile team, and the chaotic haste accompanying the examination of applications was besides PiS' fault, which broke the regulation of law and thus blocked European money for Poland.
The editorial on the subject asked politicians of the civilian Coalition how they judged this confusion. any of them spoke under their name, others subject to anonymity.
National Reconstruction Plan. Scale
One of the Members of the Civic Coalition asks whether what is happening around the KPO is simply a scandal or a cap. He responds quickly: – For present the capiscus.
And then he justifies it.
– KPO is immense money for Poland. It is besides a large number of beneficiaries, with which nearly 800,000 contracts have been concluded. Unfortunately, with the gigantic scale of the project, there will be irregularities. There'll always be any smart guys and any people who make a mistake. Irregularities request to be explained and the consequences drawn, but at the same time 1 should not lose sight of the fact that it is simply a microscale against the background of the full National Reconstruction Plan – explains the political subject.
In advance of our question, Mr Zembaczyński admits that the accepted proposals besides include those threatening him. “I anticipate Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska – Nałęcz will verify all funds,” he says, referring to the head of the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy, the Polish 2050 politician.
However, like our erstwhile interviewer, she feels that proportions request to be kept. - The PiS is making a large deal. It is an absolute capisson – says Mr Zembaczyński. According to him, the Law and Justice are trying to "turn the logic" and to shift their negligence to the current power.
– HoReCa programming (funding rules – ed.) was invented by PiS. He besides took time to distribute funds to Poland, due to the fact that he blocked KPO. Finally, with the participation of the Law and Justice Departments, for example Beata Szydło's husband, the evaluation of applications in the regions governed by Law and Justice was held," Zembaczyński says.
In his opinion, the power should show people the mechanics of spending money from the National Reconstruction Plan so that the organization Jarosław Kaczyński could not break political capital in controversies, which it itself caused to a large extent.
In the Civic Coalition, there is no shortage of votes that in the KPO case the power one more time loses to the Law and Justice on the Internet. The consequence to the controversy is to be insufficient and came besides late. However, there are those who have no "mountain" to blame. – We live in a time erstwhile algorithms advance misinformation. It's easy to provoke outrage at something that will make sense. But the facts do not pierce so well – 1 individual convinces.
KPO or capiscon? Silence: Those are not good words
Member of the Civic Platform Janusz Cichoń urges that, in view of what is going on around the KPO for HoReC, neither the word "fare" nor the capon should be used. – These are not good words – he evaluates in a conversation with the subject. An experienced parliamentarian points out that the tourism manufacture was 1 of the most affected by the pandemic.
– Building resilience in tourism is not easy. The search for ideas for a "second leg" is much more complicated than it may seem. Diversification of activities is intended to keep jobs in a crisis situation and to figure out how to do it requires creativity. On the another hand, evaluation of applications should be accompanied by thoroughness, which, as it turned out, could have been a small more. Unfortunately, the time for examining the proposals was very short, and in specified circumstances it is hard to be precise," says Mr Cichoń.
A associate of the Civic Coalition Club stresses that the application of collective work is pointless, although it may benefit the opposition.
– I think the PiS is truly pumping the scandal. A review is surely needed to find whether there has been fraud, but individual cases cannot affect the full programme. In terms of the amount of substance that is KPO, specified situations can happen – says Janusz Cichoń.
What's with the KPO scandal? "Disgusting the European Union" and "hunting entrepreneurs"
According to our interlocutors, the attack on the power camp is only 1 and not the most crucial goal of the assault of the Law and Justice on the KPO.
"The Law and Justice is trying to disgust the European Union and the resources it brings. Jarosław Kaczyński's people cannot accept how much support the Commonwealth has due to the fact that they support isolationist politics. They want Poland to be a lonely island, and they barely hide. In an isolated country, much more can be afforded and all populists dream about it," says Mr Zembachinski.
This diagnosis is shared by more of our interlocutors, but besides indicates another goal of "pumping the scandal". The PiS was never for entrepreneurs. He gave them the fresh Deal and made life hard at all turn. Sometimes I get the feeling that the problems of this group of Law and Justice are actually happy – we hear from 1 of the Members. Witold Zembachinski goes even further. “PiS is hostile to entrepreneurs and seeks to share this hostility with society,” he says. "Employment Hunt" is simply a permanent motive that appears in the statements of members of the club KO.
Frydrych o PiS: The thief shouts "catch the thief!"
The MP Joanna Frydry represents Podkarpacie. This is simply a region governed by the Law and Justice. And it is in this region – the politician KO points out – that controversy around the HoReC grant accumulates.
– The biggest outrage is caused by the conclusions passed by the Rzeszów Regional improvement Agency, which served the Podkarpackie, Lesser Poland, Świętokrzyskie and Lublinie voivodships. RARR is subject to the government of the Podkarpackie state managed by the Law and Justice Office headed by Marshal Władysław Ortyl and Deputy Marshal Małgorzata Jarosińska- Jednak, formerly Minister and Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. It is besides outrageous that Edward Szydło, the husband of the erstwhile Prime Minister of the Law and Justice Government, was in the composition of the opinion committee.
Our interviewer emphasizes that she considers it a large accomplishment of Prime Minister Tusk and Coalition on October 15, that hundreds of billions of PLN from KPO went to Poland, which – she notes – could not accomplish PiS. – They were besides busy buying non-existent respirators from the arms dealer and the masked affair to take care of Poles – the parliamentarian estimates.
Similar sentiment is expressed by another our interlocutors, who have in head a number of vague cases singing for billions of zlotys, for which the Law and Justices did not even explain themselves, and now "raise the cry" erstwhile the power itself is taken for control in addition to the prosecutor's office.
The case needs clarification. As Prime Minister Tusk says, any gold that has been spent wrongfully will be returned. Making a scandal out of what is not yet explained by the Law and Justice is simply a situation in which the thief shouts "catching the thief!" - the MP Joanna Frydrych blooms.
