In the new recording, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki shows the scale of national asset sales during the rule of the PO-PSL coalition.
– Listen, I’m going to show you a chart that is rarely talked about, and it’s just stunning. Thus, Tusk’s team sold out national goods. It sold the assets of nearly a thousand companies for about PLN 57 billion. What did they do with that money? They ate them because they can’t rule. And they also took our money from OFE, increased VAT – indicates Mateusz Morawiecki in a video published on social media.
The graph presented by the Prime Minister shows that privatization revenues totaled PLN 57.8 billion in 2008-2015. The largest amount, as much as PLN 22.4 billion, was received in 2011 in this regard. In turn, revenues from OFE amounted to PLN 153 billion.
Prime Minister: Our government is buying important companies
– We have stopped and even reversed that shameful practice – emphasizes the head of government and gives concrete examples. – We bought Bank Pekao SA, we bought Polskie Koleje Linowe, PKP Energetyka, Bank Przemysłowo-Handlowy, Gdańsk Shipyard and many, many others. State-controlled companies helped Poland during crises. You saw it yourself. For example, in the COVID-19 crisis, in the crisis in the coal and gas markets caused by Russia. At that time, we could also help Poland because we took control of important companies, the politician emphasizes.
Morawiecki states that “when Tusk comes back, he’ll start selling power again. Because there’s nothing else he can do.” – And what do the Poles get out of it? asks the Prime Minister at the end.
Chairman of PiS: Very nervous reactions show that we hit the mark
– Today the first question of the referendum that will accompany the elections has been presented. This is a question about permission to sell Polish national assets. Let me remind you that this has been a contentious issue from the beginning of the new Poland and still evokes great emotions to this day, Kaczyński said in a statement to the media on Friday.
– What we hear after the announcement of this question, these very nervous reactions show that we hit the target, that there were several far-reaching plans and that this referendum is intended to prevent them from being carried out, even if the Civic Coalition and its Allies took over power.
He stressed that if the turnout in the referendum is higher than 50 percent, “we are dealing with a decision by society”. – And we refer, as I said, to the will of Poland, not to various interests, including external interests. Not what some politicians, especially lately especially German ones, express in their sometimes completely unbelievable and brutal statements, but what the Poles think, what our nation, or at least the majority of it, thinks, he added.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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