The Citizen Coalition MP, Katarzyna Królak, caused a real storm with her fresh message on the allocation of funds from the National Recovery Plan (KPO).
In Polsat News, asked about the controversy surrounding the abuse of EU funds, she stated:
“Half or most of my friends, a closer family, a further one, besides received HoReCA funding.”
This short, free note echoed widely in the media. net users and opposition politicians rapidly picked up these words as a confirmation of nepotism and humanity. The commentators noted that MP KO “surprised on the air” with her statement, setting out the impression of uncontrollable sincerity.
Bloggers and publicists did not hide the surprise that individual publically admitted to specified a wide distribution of funds among the private environment. The passages of her words were quoted, turning them into satire:
“People have the right to compose applications for funding.”
In the background of this media storm remained a increasing list of controversy around KPO. An interactive grant map published by the government revealed that millions of zlotys went to yachts, saunas, solariums, virtual shooting ranges, coffee machines or bridge games.
An additional hot place was the discovery that the beneficiary of the grant was besides the wife of Mr Artur Łącki. In its resort, more than 1 million zlotys were awarded for modernization and expansion. Mr Łącki explained:
“My wife has applied and received funds for the extension of the restaurant area and the extension and equipment of the conference room, not for any stupid yachts.”
And he added:
“The case is clean. Contracts shall be available for inspection.”
Critics in social media accused him of hypocrisy and greed, ironic that he and his wife "gave more than a million zlotys from KPO" for private business. Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Klimczak called for a sound assessment:
“It is essential to check whether this kind of company could actually receive funding.”
In this context, the words Rabbit sounded even stronger. Her loose, emotional attention became a symbol of more than a one-time blunder. It has become a mention point in the discussion on how wide and frequently individual the ellipse of beneficiaries of public funds is.
Under media pressure, Królak partially withdrew from her statement, publishing a short entry on X:
“I came back from the studio and checked — no 1 from the family, anyway.”
Her case coincided in time with an expanding wave of criticism of the full grant program. Confederate MP Sławomir Mentzen alleged that KPO's money did not go to oncology hospitals, but to luxury and unnecessary purchases:
“The money went on yachts, solariums, alternatively of oncological hospitals.”
The spokesperson for the Chief Medical Board said:
"We didn't get the money for chemo chairs, drug pumps and ultrasound. erstwhile I read that it was 500,000 for ice cream or a yacht... I'm sorry, but I'm so damned.”
The Deputy Minister of Funds tried to speech the mood, explaining that wellness care in the KPO had a multiple budget larger than the HoReCa sector. However, this did not halt the increasing impression that funds were allocated in a way that was separate from the real needs of society.
From the one-verse, emotional message of the MP, a full-size image crisis has emerged. The Rabbit, like another beneficiaries of the KPO, was thrown into the mediate of a debate on transparency and fairness of spending public money. The full issue has shown how in today's planet all word of politics can become an inflammatory point, trigger an avalanche of explanation and become a symbol of major systemic problems.
