All it took was 1 entry on the X platform with a map of the grant from the National Reconstruction Plan to make the net explode. Yachts, saunas, coffee machines for thousands of zlotys, solariums, and even a club for swingers. Photographs of task descriptions spilled across social media and began to ignite the net like hot gasoline, and comments poured avalanchely. "Tusk and Company plowed KPO", "Government stole EU billions". The outside viewer might think that, in principle, this “great” plan of the housing had come to an end, and after the government's bunchonic announcements, the task proved to be a failure. The Union's money has not been distributed between food and hotel businesses. The problem is, the facts are a small little spectacular than the headlines.
The Ministry of improvement claims that the HoReCa grants were intended to extend the offer - fresh services and products, greater resilience of companies to future crises. These were the assumptions of this 1 section of the KPO, which according to the government side is in full eighteen. The full task represents a full of 255 billion in loans and grants, with the HoReCa sector allocated 1.2 billion, representing little than 0.5% of the National Recovery Plan. We don't know what scale of abuse we're dealing with yet. As part of HoReC, 1621 contracts were signed with entrepreneurs, PARP controllers announce the results of the checks in late September.
The net loves simple stories – preferably ones that can be closed in 1 conviction and 1 image. Yacht, sauna, swinger club. It works better than any report, procedure or translation. Just a fistful of specified examples, so that a "truth" can be created in mass imagination, that the full KPO is in fact a fund of extravagant fanatics. Social media algorithms favour this process- the greater the outrage, the greater the range. And due to the fact that anger does not require context, it can be fueled almost costlessly — just meme, a shorthand, a catchy hashtag.
The scandal broke out, so the conflict began - who better and stronger to the government. The PiS and the Confederacy took the initiative by surpassing who would find more irrational spending and announce it to the world. This caused any comic situations, the first was Sławomir Mentzen, due to the fact that he caught himself on an online troll and continued with an undisclosed outrage that the money from the KPO was spent on flashbacks, which is evidently nonsense. Soon, Dominik Tarczyński joined, and on the X platform he placed a image with a grant entitled "Transference and Sadomasochism/BDSM, he commented only on the amount of "747 074zł!". The portal rapidly added to this the context that indicated that "the grant was awarded for the governments of PIS and the word of office of Przemysław Czarnek".
Examples of how these show the grotesqueness of the full situation. Even any of the most crucial politicians do not verify information, there is no time or need. The entry turned out to be untruthful, difficult-just remove it.
It is easy to identify the guilty: government, ministry, officials. It's harder to realize that the problem is deeper. Programs specified as KPO are multi-story structures that affect a multitude of people for a long time. If the strategy allows backing of socially questionable projects, it means that 1 individual or organization has failed – the full supervisory architecture has failed.
“The Pole can do it,” says the old proverb. He can do even better erstwhile it comes to mixing. It's yet our national specialty, known for decades: if there's a recipe, then you gotta find a way around it. Thus, erstwhile the KPO program contains the slogan "extension of the offer", any entrepreneurs read it as an invitation to creative accounting. It is besides worth noting that the full scandal came from the publication of an interactive grant map – and this proves that disclosure of data makes sense and can uncover weaknesses of the system. As a result, we have a situation in which common sense suggests that individual here simply utilized public money to realize private desires, hoping that no 1 would notice. However, it is certain that each case will should be studied separately, only then will we learn the real scale of abuse.
Once again, the government's image strategy doesn't seem to be the best. If – as the Prime Minister says – they knew about the case before, then the deficiency of preparation for the media storm is all the more incomprehensible. alternatively of a coherent narrative, we watch movements that look improvised: the abrupt dismissal of the PARP Director, Catherine Duber-Stachurska, the transfer of all blame to the erstwhile government and the conventional announcements of the Prime Minister about the settlement - this time guilty officials.
In the coming weeks, we will see who will come out of this clash the most battered — although present the government seems to favour this title. Not due to the fact that it bears full responsibility, but due to the fact that the fact remains certain transfers of public money to a narrow group of beneficiaries into ‘too diversified’ activities. And that's never welcome. It could be a success if these measures were voluntarily returned. For now, though the image knockout is close, we will gotta wait for the final result of this political skirmish.
We live in a planet where news travels very quickly. At this rate, it's easy to get emotions, harder to get facts. It's a paradise for populists and hell for rational public debate, but it's besides a signal for us to keep our eyes open. It is worth checking, verifying and looking at power on hands – even with tools specified as interactive grant maps. due to the fact that even if they sometimes become fuel for political fireworks, it is they that let to see what truly happens behind the scenes of large government projects.
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