The presidential camp responded to the Prime Minister's effort to attribute the blame to Karol Nawrock for rising prices at stations. Rafał Leśkiewicz sent the rulers back to the “hospital VIP lounge”, recalling the scandal at the Warsaw confederate Hospital. Behind political spite stands a real dispute over veto taxation on fuel giants.
From CPN to ‘CKN’
Donald Tusk decided to identify the president as guilty of the situation with the distributors. On social media, the Prime Minister utilized the shortcut game: the erstwhile mark CPN developed as “Prices of Paliw Lower”, and the current state of affairs christened as “CKN”, or “Price of Karol Nawrocki”. The chief of government called on drivers to remember erstwhile they were refueling.
The answer came quickly. Rafał Leśkiewicz, the president's spokesman, recaptured the ball by ruling “a minute of respite” in 1 of their infirmary “VIP salons”. In 1 sentence, the presidential camp diverted attention from fuel prices to a scandal that had been charging the civilian Coalition for weeks.
What was that truly about?
The point of conflict is simply a bill that Karol Nawrocki refused to sign. The regulation assumed a taxation on surplus profits of fuel producers and importers, reaching 60 percent according to government assumptions, and the proceeds were to finance the station price simplification scheme, advertised under the slogan referring to the erstwhile CPN.
The president did not block the provisions definitively, but referred them to the Constitutional Court under preventive control. As a main allegation, he pointed out a breach of the rule that the law did not act retroactively (lex retro non agit): the bill was to enter into force in August, but the tribute included gross counted as early as March.
Giant taxation versus "backright"
The dispute so concerns more than the distributor account. It is besides about the limits of the fiscal power of the state. The government claims that taxation of over-normative corporate profits is fair and feasible. The President's camp responds that the retroactively imposed tribute undermines trust in the law and may fall before a constitutional court. Until the Court settles the case, the simplification mechanics remains on paper.
Government: ‘You could have had cheaper’
In the government's narrative, it was the president who blocked the solution by which fuel could be cheaper, and the work for the advanced bill now falls on the Presidential Palace. The background is uncomfortable for both sides. After the earlier taxation cuts had expired, prices had risen significantly, and diesel began to approach the border of PLN 8 per litre. For rulers, costly stations are an image problem. For the President's camp, it's an chance to remind you who's truly in charge.
Alousia to the ‘Vip room’
Leskiewicz's Ripost was not random. He refers to the public case of the Warsaw South Hospital, where politicians and activists associated with the Civic Coalition were to be admitted outside the queue, in a separate space referred to as the “VIP lounge”. The Prime Minister himself announced the consequences: if the law is broken, the prosecution is to be dealt with, and if only good customs were violated, political work would fall. The presidential spokesperson recalled this communicative to answer the allegations of "Nawrock's prices" with a question about the standards of power itself.
A dispute at the top, cost at the bottom
The exchange of blows shows a mechanics in which a real economical issue, namely who, and how, is to taxation the profits of fuel companies, is to be brought to bid on malice. However, the consequence is crucial for the driver, not the accuracy of the abbreviations. As long as the bill waits for the Court's ruling and the parties pass the blame, the price on the station remains where it was. The distributor's bill is paid by the same driver, regardless of whose ripost will prove more reasonable.
Source: To Things
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