Ex-president slams Polish gov’t over critical report
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
13.05.2016 13:18
Polish former president Lech Wałęsa has accused the Law and Justice (PiS) government of “Soviet style” tactics, following a recent report that slammed the eight years of the previous coalition.
Lech Wałęsa. Photo: Facebook.com/Lech Wałęsa
“I warn them [the PiS government], he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword,” Wałęsa, a cofounder of the Solidarity trade union and former Polish president, told the TVN broadcaster.
“I will say this: you will arrest some people, but almost all of you will be arrested in good time,” Wałęsa added, addressing the Law and Justice government led by Prime Minister Beata Szydło.
“They are constantly looking for enemies, Soviet-style. There must always be an enemy in order to govern,” Wałęsa said.
Audit
Poland’s previous government wasted PLN 340 billion of taxpayers’ money, Prime Minister Beata Szydło said on Wednesday in a report to parliament that was criticised by the opposition.
Presenting a report on the eight years in power by the Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL), Szydło said the "wasted" money could have gone to provide family benefits, as well as “5,000 newly-built kindergartens, 250 new hospitals and 1,500 km of motorways.
“The opportunities and possibilities that you denied Poles cannot be calculated […] this money was just wasted," Szydło said.
The state-run Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has claimed that it possesses documents which allegedly prove that Wałęsa was an informer for the communist-era secret police. (rg)