“Isn’t it the case that the debt will be so large that the European Commission (KE) will come and say: ‘Poland must cut spending on this, on that – otherwise, there will be sanctions.’ Suddenly it will turn out that state-owned companies must be sold, that Poland must withdraw from many development projects, such as CPK or the nuclear power plant, that taxes must be raised on citizens, that 800+ must be limited for Poles, because public finances need to be ‘healed,'” wondered Sebastian Kaleta, Law and Justice (PiS) MP, on TV Republika.
On Thursday, the government adopted the draft state budget for next year. It assumes revenues of approx. PLN 647 billion, expenditures of approx. PLN 918.9 billion, and a budget deficit in 2026 of approx. PLN 271.7 billion, or 6.5% of GDP. The ratio of national public debt to GDP at the end of the year is to amount to 53.8%. Meanwhile, debt-to-GDP in the EU framework will stand at 66.8% at the end of 2026.
“This government has been driving Poland’s public finances into a wall the whole time. Over just two years of their rule, they are indebting us by nearly PLN 700 billion. Do we see the effects of this rule? Such money is pouring out, such is the deficit. I have serious doubts about how Minister Domański manages this budget, because the budgetary results on the revenue side are underdelivered, and these deficit forecasts may also not be met, since the President has stated that certain tax increases the government is considering in the budget bill will not gain his approval,” assessed PiS MP Sebastian Kaleta on TV Republika.
He added that “the government mainly hides behind arms purchases.”
“Yet we see time and again that some contract is canceled or delayed. We don’t see new contracts on the horizon, we don’t have full implementation of the purchases made by the previous government, and in parliament we will fight hard to ensure this budget reflects the real state of public finances,” he pointed out. He recalled that under PiS, the deficit was much lower, as was the debt-to-GDP ratio.
“They are indebting us at lightning speed. I have this theory – I hope it won’t turn out to be true, but unfortunately, there are theories my political circle has put forward about relations with the EU that later proved correct. Isn’t it the case that the debt will be so large that the European Commission (KE) will come and say: ‘Poland must cut spending on this, on that – otherwise, there will be sanctions.’ Suddenly it will turn out that state-owned companies must be sold, that Poland must withdraw from many development projects, such as CPK or the nuclear power plant, that taxes must be raised on citizens, that 800 Plus must be limited for Poles, because public finances need to be ‘healed,'” Kaleta wondered.