Piskorski: government's broken promises

Agnieszka Gmiter Sunday, 10 January 2010 23:16

Opinion

Paweł Piskorski, a leader of Democratic Party (Stronnictwo Demokratyczne), claims on his blog (piskorski.blog.onet.pl), that 2010 will be a year of government's withdraw from many promises.

According to Piskorski, the most spectacular will be abandoning the idea of earlier parliamentary elections, that have been planed for the spring 2011. As he suppose, elections will have been held in constitutional time, because CP would like to take advantage of being a governing party during the period of polish EU leadership, that starts in 2011. In electoral campaign CP may use an argument, that opponents shouldn't criticize the government, as they are at the helm of European Union.

Piskorski says, that, as a result of public debt getting closer and closer to the constitutional limit, instead of introducing announced reforms of public finances, the government will just change a definition of public debt. So that the necessity of unpopular budget cuts will be postponed for the next term in office.

Moreover, DP's leader expects, that a huge privatization, that is expected to bring billions of PLN, will not take place due to lack of courage amongst the members of current government.