The current draft of the budget bill assumes that next year, state budget expenditures will amount to 918.9 billion PLN, while revenues will reach only 647.2 billion PLN. This means an unprecedented deficit of 271.7 billion PLN. According to the latest data, as of the end of August, Poland’s official State Treasury debt stood at around 1 trillion 853 billion PLN, as reported by Business Insider Polska.
“The heavens are crying, because the catastrophe of public finances today has the face of Donald Tusk and Andrzej Domański,” said Janusz Kowalski, a Member of Parliament from Law and Justice (PiS).
“He has wrecked the Polish economy after 1989 like no one else. In two years, he won’t find a job even in a greengrocer’s. (…) He’s not implementing the Greek scenario, but a Polish one. Domański has outdone Jan Rostowski by a factor of two,” said Kowalski.
Meanwhile, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (also from PiS) said on Monday that the proposed budget is already the third one prepared by the current government. He noted that the deficit continues to grow year by year and that the government borrows and spends money outside the official budget.
“In total, public debt over these three years amounts to an astronomical sum — 1 trillion 100 billion PLN. If this trend continues until 2026, Poland will experience the fastest debt growth rate in the entire European Union,” said Kuźmiuk.
PiS politicians also decided to remind the public of the unfulfilled promises made by Civic Platform (PO) representatives.
“As you know, the declarations were enormous — there was the ‘100 specifics’ program, there were 12 proposals from the Third Way, and, if I remember correctly, as many as 155 program proposals from the Left. Two years have passed, and as you can clearly see, the implementation of these election promises is practically nonexistent,” said Zbigniew Kuźmiuk.