“Many support centers have collapsed, and thousands of crime victims have been left out in the cold,” wrote Zbigniew Ziobro in response to the Prime Minister regarding the Justice Fund. He stressed that hundreds of millions of złoty accumulated in the account have been frozen.
“We do not finance Wirtualna Polska from the Justice Fund” – Donald Tusk replied yesterday to Wirtualna Polska journalist Szymon Jadczak.
Zbigniew Ziobro responded to the Prime Minister’s post. “You also did not finance organizations that had been helping victims of violence for years from the Justice Fund. You cut off their funding, accumulating 600 million PLN in the Fund’s account, because Żurek, busy prosecuting the opposition, did not want to allocate these resources to those in need” – we read.
He pointed out that “many support centers have collapsed, and thousands of crime victims have been left out in the cold”.
“And the promotional campaigns of the Justice Fund in the media were your idea – established under a regulation you issued in February 2014. So it is also your damn responsibility. Unlike the hefty millions of public money you have spent over the past two years on advertisements in TVN, Agora, and RASP, as well as other media outlets serving you” – the politician concluded.
The exchange between the journalist and the Prime Minister began with a publication by the jawnylublin.pl website. A local journalist described the story of suburban councilor Magdalena Szczygieł-Mitrus, a member of the club of Mayor Krzysztof Żuk, who, one month after leaving the Polska 2050 Party (Polska 2050) and joining Centrum Polska, received a position on the supervisory board of the Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Lublin.
The reports were picked up by a journalist from Wirtualna Polska. “How is Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO) different from Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS)?” – wrote Szymon Jadczak, unexpectedly receiving a reply from the Prime Minister.
Both Jadczak and Patryk Słowik, a journalist previously associated with Wirtualna Polska, reacted to the head of government’s remark. Both recalled the behind-the-scenes details of a previously undisclosed meeting to which they had been invited by Tusk. Both Jadczak and Słowik took subtle jabs.