The fact that we differ is absolutely normal. We will continue to differ, we will continue to discuss, because we are different parties and have different views – said on Monday during a conversation with journalists, Sejm Speaker Szymon Hołownia. As he stated, “it has been creaking for a year” in the ruling coalition. – It will creak for three more years, and everything will arrive as it should – he argued.
Szymon Holownia (Poland 2050) was asked about the friction in the ruling coalition, including the exchange of opinions between the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk and the Minister of Development and Technology Krzysztof Paszyk PSL.
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The Speaker of the Sejm replied that the coalition has been “creaking for a year.” – It will creak for another three years and everything will arrive as it should – he added.
– The fact that we differ is absolutely normal. We will continue to differ, we will continue to discuss, because we really are different parties and have different views – he noted.
He emphasized that the time of the United Right has passed, when “the president would come out and say how it should be”. – There are politicians here, there are parties here, there is a lively discussion here and that is how it was and will be – he stated.
Zero-percent credit, health insurance, four-day workday. Long list of disputes in the coalitionMaria Bilińska/Fakty po Południe TVN24
Hołownia on zero percent credit: we will talk, we will argue
When asked about agency, among others, in the context of the zero percent loan, about which there are differences of opinion within the coalition, Hołownia assessed that “you only pay attention to the fact that a skin lesion has appeared in this or that place, while the body functions as it should.”
– The zero percent credit issue will be resolved because we still have time until December, until the budget votes – he replied. He added that “we still have a lot of time to talk about it with each other”.
– The daily management of the state is going well. The state is really managed in a good way. Thousands of decisions (are – ed.) made every day. I know that the most exciting thing is what we differ in, but it is a fraction of a percent of what we do every day – he said.
Asked whether things are not going too slowly, he pointed out that “sometimes certain things go quickly because we agree on them without a doubt, and sometimes things like the zero percent loan, which is not in the coalition agreement, raise all sorts of doubts.”
– We will talk about it, we will argue – he said. – And despite this, we will reach 2027, and I deeply believe that we will continue with good governance of the country – declared the Marshal of the Sejm.
Dziemianowicz-Bąk on Minister Paszyk's “bizarre media tour”
In Sunday's “Fakty po Faktach” on TVN24, Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk referred, among other things, to a difference of opinion with Minister of Development and Technology Krzysztof Paszyk from PSL. The disputes concern, among other things, zero percent credit or the issue of a four-week working day.
She spoke of Paszyk's “bizarre, very strange media tour”, referring to his recent statements. – I would like to warn Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk against further pursuing the idea of a four-day work week, if she does not want to be a minister who will lead to further bankruptcies of hundreds of thousands of Polish entrepreneurs – Paszyk said at a press conference in late August.
– I guess it's like this in every government that there are ministers who work and there are ministers who prefer to comment. I chose work, the Ministry of Labor chose work, the Ministry of Development and Minister Paszyk has clearly chosen commenting for now – Dziemianowicz-Bąk commented on Sunday on TVN24.
Paszyk's response was not long in coming. “The Minister of Labour on TVN24 sheds crocodile tears for half the programme… It's a pity he doesn't understand that ideas like a four-day work week will ruin Polish entrepreneurs and may contribute to price increases. Including housing prices,” he wrote right after the broadcast of “Fakty po Faktach”.
Dziemianowicz-Bąk on Minister Krzysztof Paszyk's “bizarre, very strange media tour”TVN24
Paszyk answers
Krzysztof Paszyk also commented on the matter on Monday in an interview with TVN24 reporter Maja Wójcikowska.
– This is not an adequate description of my activities, I am not a frequent guest in the media, I try to use my time for honest work – he said.
In response to the fact that the dispute between Dziemianowicz-Bąk and Paszyk has been going on for several days now, the Minister of Development and Technology said that there was no question of “exchanging blows”, but that “constructive and substantive talks” were underway between the ministers.
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