Press conference by Krzysztof Bosak and Bartholomew Pejo, February 7, 2024.
Krzysztof Bosak:
– present is another day erstwhile the Confederacy is the only political force here in the Sejm that there is simply a continuation of the policy of the PiS government and now the Government of Platform and Left, in these pathological manifestations. Where no standards are observed, where there is no concern for citizens' interests.
Suddenly, without any consultation, a bill extending all social privileges for people with Ukrainian passports was put on the agenda.
Let us remind you, the Polish state did not separate who is an immigrant, who is simply a refugee, who deserves aid and to what extent. It's just equalized all people with Ukrainian passports in law with Polish citizens. It was a bad practice of the regulation of the Law and Justice, which at the minute the government of the Left, Poland 2050, PSL and Civic Coalition has extended.
We have a four-month extension project.. Why 4 months? I don't know. How much is this gonna cost? I don't know. What 4 months? I don't know. Why are no reports submitted for the implementation of this law, although they were to be all 12 months> I don't know. But we know that by June all social privileges must be extended. That there would be no consultation. There won't be time for debate. There won't be time to analyze. The draft is already in session.
It is simply a denial of all promises of a fresh coalition! It is besides a denial of the promises of the talker of the Sejm to change the way this home is treated. It wasn't expected to be like this.
Again, as Dobromir Sosnier erstwhile said, the Sejm is an emergency legislative emergency for the government. In government, they'll think of something, wake up at the last minute, send us a vote.
We are the only country in the European Union that has done specified a thing that, on the basis of the rule that individual has a abroad passport of a peculiar country, it gives him all the privileges that Poles deserve.
In this bill we have an extension of course 800+, which collects 200 000 Ukrainian children. Let us remind you that the interpelled questions indicate that the Polish State does not have a camera to verify whether these children are inactive in Poland. ZUS asked for the refund of the benefits for fraud. The effectiveness in this respect was very low. These are the things we've been asking. The government of the Law and Justice Party, who distributed the taxpayer's money to the right and left, and the government of the Platform decided not to be inferiorOh, my God!
This is besides care provision, care allowance, peculiar care allowance, 1000+ for the birth of a child, nursery service, school expedition, household care capital. And of course free access to the full Polish wellness system, even if individual does not pay wellness insurance contributions in Poland. besides access to the Polish educational system, besides if 1 does not have even a basic cognition of the Polish language. The planet is on its head! It's not normal.
Why should we vote in accelerated mode? The Confederacy is the only force that had the courage to vote against these rules in the erstwhile Sejm. But the reporters shut down our cameras. erstwhile we first said, “Help yes, privileges no.” And present we besides have the courage to say, this is simply a silly bill.
We want to see the settlement of the erstwhile bill first and we want to know what next! We cannot extend all social advantages on the catch-cap from March to June without knowing at all what strategy this is, and why, in fact, as the Polish State, the only country in the European Union, we do something like this. We criticise this continuation of the pathology of the Moravian government, which the Tusk government continues.(...)
