President Karol Nawrocki criticizes Tusk's government for Poland's debt and calls for a reduction in fuel prices

President Karol Nawrocki met on Friday with the inhabitants of Stargard and the Stargard district in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, where he sharply criticized the current government. He said that "on the one hand, we are the 20th economy in the world" and "on the other hand, thanks to the government of Donald Tusk and the Minister (of Finance) Andrzej Domański, our public finances are going to the wall."

Mr. Prime Minister, you are destroying the achievements of 36 years of hard work by Polish women and men, he said, turning to Donald Tusk.

According to Nawrocki, "in four years, Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government has indebted Poles by PLN 1 trillion," and "to service this debt, in 2027 we will need PLN 107 billion." The president said that the budget deficit is "at the level of PLN 157 billion" and that "every day this government debts us PLN 900 million."

In a normal, democratic country, with such statistics, with ratings being lowered, with such a debt and such a budget deficit after 36 years, any prime minister who cares about the issues of building Poland's economic security would simply tell Minister Domański: "go home!" And that's not happening, he said.

He added that everyone should "exert influence and pressure on those currently in power to stop this public finance disaster." This is our task (…). We are all responsible for putting pressure on the government to deal with what is important: public finances, he emphasized.

"Please lower fuel prices to PLN 5.19"

The president also referred to his decision to sign the law on excess profits of fuel companies. According to Karol Nawrocki, it was intended, first of all, "to expose the prime minister's hypocrisy and lies in the context of the fact that the president is responsible for any financial problems of this government and for fuel prices."

Today, the whole of Poland knows, after tearing away this hypocrisy, that the government, not the president, is responsible for the situation of public finances and fuel prices throughout the winter, until September next year, until the parliamentary elections, said the head of state.

Moreover, as he said, he signed this act also because he would never agree to "hold (...) Poles hostage to a political dispute" and make them pay high fuel prices. He stated that "there is no alibi anymore, there are no hostages" and "tomorrow we get up, go to the station and gas is 5.19 (PLN)."