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17 May 2022
Contrary to the official narrative, the Polish government has neglected to look after the public interest.
Jarosław Kaczyński, the de facto leader of the Polish government, frequently speaks of the threat of corruption and that the state must deal with this phenomenon effectively. However, while he spoke about it consistently — especially when he himself was the head of the opposition party — there was a lack of consistency in action after he took power.
In 2014, during the conference ‘Against Poverty, Against Corruption,’ Kaczyński stressed that he believed ‘that the time of a great offensive against corruption will soon begin, that the time of different governance in Poland will begin.’
From the perspective of almost seven years of his rule, we already know that there was no move in this direction. The Polish government has not even prepared another comprehensive anti-corruption programme. The last one that was implemented, which was partly taken over from the previously ruling Civic Platform-Polish Peasants’ Party coalition, ended in a fiasco in 2020.