Presidential election 2025. Buda: Trzaskowski gave a million to “promoting prostitution”. Untruth

“If the Sex Work Polska Foundation got from @trzaskowski_ 1 million to promote prostitution, it can be called a pimp?” – wrote On May 28, on X Waldemar Buda, Law and Justice MEP (original posts spelling). The post generated over 72 thousand in a short time. views, over 5,000 users, and further more than a thousand times.

Some Internet users believed the MEP and expressed indignation in that the President of Warsaw gave the support of Sex Work Polska organization to “promote prostitution.” “Yes, without doubt it is a pimp”; “O is money from our taxes”; “Chief Alfons of Warsaw ….. I am ashamed that something like this takes place in the capital of our country …”; “Yes, we have two pimp as candidates in the 2nd round”; “It was Poles' money. Trzaskowski gave our money to sex workshops with a light hand,” they commented.

Others, however, accused MEP: “It's not true”; “What nonsense”; “Be sure to do tests for IQ because I see that you do not understand what you are writing about!”; “She didn't get” – they wrote.

Indeed, the city of Warsaw under Trzaskowski did not transfer this Foundation a million zlotys.

The Organization of Sex Work Polska is currently called the Camellia Collective. How informs On the website, the collective was founded in 2014 and “works for sexually working in Poland”. It offers, among others, “free legal advice, psychological consultations, consultations for migrants and migrants in the field of visa procedures and legalization of stay, support in difficult situations, in the case of experience of violence and other crisis situations, information on sexual and reproductive health”, and also organizes training and workshops for sexually working people.

We asked the City Hall, whether the capital's local government finances or financed any activities of the Kamelia collective. Press spokeswoman for the City of Warsaw Warsaw replied on May 29 the editorial office of Zasta24:

In response, Beuth also informed that “the city did not finance or finance or support any other actions that could be described as 'promoting prostitution'. This is complete nonsense.”

Waldemar Buda is not the first PiS politician who spreads this fake news. The message about the alleged support to the collective by the capital's town hall has already appeared earlier. He was spread by politicians, including PiS deputy maid Mateusz Kurzejewski. “Meet 'COLLECTION COLLECTION'! This is the new name of the 'Sex Work Polska' organization, which quite recently received over PLN 1 million from Trzaskowski wrote On May 10 on the X. This information was duplicated by many anonymous Internet users, both on the X platform and on Facebook.

After this type of reports appeared on the web, the Kamelia collective reacted. On May 12, on his Instagram account, he published a statement in which we read: “In connection with the information appearing in the media space about the co -financing of our support projects with the amount of PLN 1 million from the Office of the Capital City of Warsaw, managed by Rafał Trzaskowski, we would like to inform you that we have never received a grant or other form of financing from urban or state funds.”

“We did not get any million from the Warsaw Capital City of Warsaw. We are not beneficiaries of urban or state subsidies. We operate as an informal collective, and our projects are financed only from grants of independent funds. We are not a tender card in political games. We are fighting for recognition of PS for work – with full rights and protection” – said the collective (original spelling).

Despite the public Dementi, Waldemar Buda spreads Fake News. And the matter was also clarified by Fact-Checking Editorial Boards Demagogue and Pravda. The message about Rafale Trzaskowski “promoting prostitution” returned a few days before the election after journalists Onet They revealed that PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki had – working as a security guard at the Grand Hotel in Sopot – to participate “Procedure for bringing prostitutes for guests”.

Where did these reports come from? They were based on another PiS policy from a few years ago. It is about Sebastian Kaleta, who published in 2019 report “Where does the Warsaw residents go? In it he reported that sex Work Polska was one of them. She was to receive funding for her actions in connection with the company Prekursor, which received support in the amount of over PLN 1.1 million. Only that, first of all, the funds were formally received by the precursor, and not yet operating under the old name, the Kalast Kamelia. Secondly, this money was intended not to “promote prostitution”, but to help people addicted to drugs and support for people infected with HIV and educational activities in this area. This, moreover, explained immediately after the publication of the Kalety report, the deputy spokesman for the Press Office of the Capital City of Warsaw Warsaw Ewa Rogala. He said PAPRogala on the portal X (then Twitter) wrote: “In connection with the lies and manipulations presented by @sjkaleta, we declare: The city of @Warszawa supports educational and preventive activities directed to endangered HIV/AIDS, based on the recommendations of experts, not politicians.”

Also, the Kamelia collective in its recent Instagram post referred to the Kalety report from 2019, informing: “The amount of the Kaleta MP's report concerns the three -year project of the Center for Integrated Aid and Reduction of Damage for Psychoactive Substances, implemented by the Social Policy Foundation, it is implemented. Beneficiaries or the target group, we also do not have access to funds granted for its implementation. ” The connection of the collective with the precursor was also explained: “As we are an informal collective, the Precursor Foundation gives us only legal personality in the implementation of our activities.”