“I am facing a very difficult choice,” said MP Klaudia Jachira from the Sejm rostrum. She did not hold back in criticising… the budget prepared by the ruling camp to which she herself belongs.
Today, the Sejm held the second reading of the draft budget act for 2026. During the session, motions were submitted both to reject the draft and to introduce amendments. As a result, the project was sent to the Public Finance Committee.
During the debate, MPs from, among others, PiS and Confederation submitted motions to reject the budget proposal. In addition, amendments were put forward. Those prepared by the PiS parliamentary club concerned, among other things, increasing spending on healthcare and science, 7% pay raises in the public sector, and an additional PLN 1.6 billion for active measures against unemployment. Meanwhile, the Razem MPs’ circle submitted amendments including the withdrawal of planned cuts to the budget of the Ministry of Justice, which would hit court employees’ salaries. This cut had been included in a budget amendment previously approved by the Public Finance Committee. On Wednesday, the committee chairman Janusz Cichoń (KO) also submitted amendments, informing MPs that these were “technical changes.”
The most surprising voice in the budget debate came from… Klaudia Jachira (associated with KO, suspended from club membership this October, but for years active within the political camp currently governing the country). The MP from the ruling camp sharply criticised the solutions prepared by her own side.
“I am facing a difficult choice, because we are still dealing with a budget that is indebting us enormously,” Jachira said. “It is never too late to fix the budget, cut spending and, as a result, reduce the deficit. Otherwise, this will not be a good budget,” she urged politicians from the governing coalition.
“The economic policy is anti-development,” she said, listing among other things tax increases and the enormous deficit.
A committee meeting dedicated to the motions to reject the budget draft as well as the new amendments has been scheduled for Thursday.