On the way, we pass the Orlen gas station. They say there are 3 specified stations in their village. They look at me expecting to express my satisfaction. After all, all tanking, all acquisition on these stations indirectly contributes to the success of the Polish company, they contribute to the Polish budget.
But I, alternatively of showing enthusiasm, say with undisclosed sadness that even a year ago, in the 3rd 4th of 2023 Orlen achieved PLN 4.6 billion in profit, and now, in the same period of the 3rd quarter, the profit was only 188 million. The Polish champion operates on the limits of profitability, is close to generating financial losses. How simple is that? A simple and hard question. What am I expected to say erstwhile I ask myself that question, how is that possible?
I'm going back to Poland. 1 of the first information I come across in the media after my return is the message of the erstwhile associate of the Board of Orlen for Trade and Logistics. Michał Róg reported: “I resigned on February 5, 2024. My successor was called up and began his work in late August 2024. For six months, no 1 in the company has engaged in business, no 1 has met with clients, no 1 has spoken to contractors, no business. present we wonder why there are specified results of the companyIt’s okay. ” There is so an answer to the question how this is possible. A painful and shocking answer at the same time. In fact, on 12 June 2024, the Supervisory Board of the Company appointed Marek Balaweder to the Management Board of ORLEN S.A. to be a associate of the Management Board for Wholesale Trade and Logistics, informing at the same time that he would take the position with the beginning of August 2024.
This is not the only specified case, it does not look like a "work accident". A fewer weeks ago in the column “Words, words ...” I described a akin situation in another State Treasury Company “PKP Cargo S.A.” There, too, no fresh ones were appointed long after the Board members were recalled, and as they were yet appointed, for a temporary period of 3 months, causing decision-making paralysis in a strategical company.
Thieves is simply a reprehensible thing. But even worse is vandalism. Thiefing is the definition of a Polish dictionary “illegal and secret taking someone's property without intent to surrenderIt’s okay. ” In the case of theft, theft, someone's property falls into the incorrect hands, but there is besides a chance of recovery. Vandalism is “deliberately destroying another people's property, especially public property". demolition leads to irreversible loss. The activities of the current government in the Treasury companies sector are unfortunately marked by vandalism. The companies are not robbed but devastated.
I have this wish, this request to the ruling. Manage the wealth wisely entrusted to you by the voters, multiply it. And if you have to, if that's your goal and the irresistible need, bargain as much as you can. There will come a time erstwhile what you bargain from the state's money will be recovered, returned to the rightful owner, will re-power the Treasury. But delight don't devastate the state, don't devastate Poland. Take possessions, but don't destruct them. If, alternatively of devastate, you steal, 1 day in the future a truly independent court of the Republic will consider it a mitigating circumstance. You enjoy another people's property, and you'll get a lighter sentence. It's truly worth it.
Mr Bogdan
