“Three złoty of spending – one złoty of debt.” That’s what the state budget looks like under the leadership of Andrzej Domański, says Mateusz Morawiecki, MP from Law and Justice (PiS). With revenues at 415 billion złoty, the deficit has already exceeded 200 billion. The former prime minister warns that “the moment when we hit the constitutional debt ceiling is drawing ever closer.”
Enormous Budget Deficit
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Finance published preliminary data on the execution of the state budget as of September 2025. According to the report, the budget deficit amounted to more than 201.4 billion złoty – nearly 70% of the amount planned for the entire year.
In its statement, the Ministry said that in the period January–September 2025, state budget revenues reached 415.6 billion złoty, which represents about 66% of the annual revenue target. At the same time, revenues were lower by approximately 44.6 billion złoty (or 9.7%) compared to the same period last year (when they amounted to 460.2 billion złoty, representing 73.5% of the revenues recorded in the amended 2024 Budget Act).
Morawiecki: Three Złoty of Spending – One Złoty of Debt
Mateusz Morawiecki, PiS MP and former Prime Minister, commented on the current state of the Polish budget on the platform X.
“Three złoty of spending – one złoty of debt. That’s what the execution of the state budget looks like under the rule of Andrzej Domański. With revenues at 415 billion, the deficit already exceeds 200 billion. This means that the moment when the constitutional debt ‘ceiling’ is breached is coming ever closer,”
he stated.
The politician emphasized that “we are now at a point where it is difficult to call the assumptions made by the Ministry of Finance merely ‘overly optimistic.’ Everything suggests that the forecasts were simply falsified on political orders from the Prime Minister’s Office so as not to reveal the true state of public finances before the presidential election.”
According to Morawiecki, the falsified indicators have also resulted in the NFZ (National Health Fund) subsidy, cobbled together from budgetary leftovers, being insufficient even to cover the shortfall in projected health insurance contributions, which, as of August, amounted to over 3.5 billion złoty.
He added that the figures also confirm what trade unions in the National Revenue Administration (KAS) have long been warning about – that the fight against tax crime is no longer a priority, and that officials have been divided into those “pursuing pseudo-scandals (some cases reported by KAS have already been dismissed by the now-illegally controlled prosecutor’s office)” and those “inflating statistics with fake invoices, from which the State Treasury will not recover a single złoty.”
Morawiecki further stated that “we have declining tax revenues relative to GDP, a growing shadow economy, and more and more loans being taken out by the State Treasury.”
“Two years into this government’s term, the state’s finances are in such poor condition that it is no surprise the Ministry of Finance played only a minor role in the anniversary festival of government propaganda,”
he concluded.