Only 9 days left to fulfill Donald Tusk's election program proudly called "100 concretes", which the fresh coalition promised to implement on symbolic 100 days after taking power. We're looking at how many promises have been made since then.

The "100 specifics" program was first announced by Donald Tusk on 9 September 2023 in Tarnów. Among the electoral promises made were proposals to reduce taxes, improve wellness care, fight nepotism and ideological issues specified as the introduction of partnerships and legalization of abortion.

Only credible people can make specified concrete proposals. These 100 days, these 100 specifics will lead to people in Poland having more in their pocket, it will be cheaper in Polish stores and it will be better in all Polish home – declared the head of the Civic Platform.

When Donald Tusk presented his election program, it was not yet certain whether the formation would win the election, but yet it happened on 13 December last year erstwhile a fresh government was established. Donald Tusk took on the function of Prime Minister of Poland for the second time, his organization is the second in terms of the number of seats in the Sejm, and so the head of KO received all the funds to implement his program. Unfortunately, almost no of the 100 promises were fulfilled.

‘100 concretes’

From Donald Tusk's election program, only 8 demands were full implemented.

List of promises made:

1. In vitro financing from the state budget;
2. introduction of the ‘day after’ pill without a prescription;
3. exclude selected areas of the forest from the cutting and usage them only for natural and social functions. On 8 January 2024, at the authority of the Ministry of Climate and Environment, State forests had to suspend or reduce the cut-off in the areas indicated with a full area of nearly 100,000 hectares;
4. Restoring the telephone of Trust for Children and Youth 116 111.;
5. the dismissal of Nicholas Pawlak as Ombudsman of the Rights of the Child;
6. presenting the indictment against MFA officers liable for corruption, which led to uncontrolled influx of migrants to Poland;
7. the establishment of a Ministry of manufacture based in Silesia;
8. obtaining money from the EU KPO.

Examples of outstanding promises:

1. Introduction of a gift certificate for the prevention and dental treatment of children and adolescents for usage in each dental office. Restoring dental care in primary schools;
2. tax reduction. Persons earning up to PLN 6000 gross (also on business) and receiving pension up to PLN 5000 gross will not pay income tax. Increase of the tax-free amount – from PLN 30 1000 to PLN 60 thousand, in the case of taxpayers accounting on a taxation scale, including entrepreneurs and pensioners;
3. the introduction of a second valorisation of pensions erstwhile inflation exceeds 5%;
4. liquidation of the alleged "retirement trap": persons with disabilities will be able to work without losing their pension;
5. ensuring the right to free anaesthesia at birth;
6. ensuring full access to free prenatal studies;
7. We will halt uncontrolled exports of unprocessed wood from Poland. The natural material from Polish forests should primarily service Polish processors;
8. raising the ceremony allowance to 150% of the minimum wage – from July 2024 it will be PLN 6450. presently it is PLN 4000;
9. at least half of the strategical food products in the stores must come from Poland. Introduction of the flag marking of the country of origin of all fresh products in stores;
10. the abolition of NFZ limits in infirmary treatment, thus importantly shortening the waiting time for consultations and treatments;
11. in companies with State Treasury participation, the fresh government will release all members of supervisory boards and boards. Carrying out fresh recruitment in transparent competitions in which competence will decide, not household and organization knowledge;
12. presenting within 100 days the program of modernization of the Polish army. get another 6 Patriot batteries, a crucial number of multi-purpose and combat helicopters, latest generation drones and another air defence components;
13. reducing the number of ministers and deputy ministers.

Other postulates can be read on the website 100concretow.pl

The Civic Platform has only realized the simplest and most propaganda of its demands. It should be noted that any of the programming points are contradictory. For example, the fresh coalition has promised to reduce the number of ministers and deputy ministers, but since the takeover of governments it has set up 2 fresh ministries – the Ministry of manufacture and the Ministry of Equality. Similarly, public positions are denied. Monika Horna-Cieślak of the Civic Platform was appointed as the erstwhile Ombudsman of kid Rights. Magdalena Roguska, a associate of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Securities Printing Works, besides belonging to the Civic Platform and acting as treasurer of the Warsaw branch of the party, was a associate of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Securities Printing Works. She is besides late the head of the political cabinet of Minister Marcin Kierwiński.

Donald Tusk failed at all to implement serious demands related to wellness care or family-friendly policy. possibly women do not have the right to free anaesthesia at birth, access to free prenatal examinations, gotta wait longer for consultations and treatments, but have received a ‘day after’ tablet and free in vitro.

Nor can we ignore the fact that the coalition withdrew completely from part of the promises, for example from the voluntary ZUS, converted into a “ZUS holiday” and this “only for a moment” or a tax-free amount, which was to be raised to the level of PLN 60 000 per year, but it turned out to be impossible by the... budgetary hole. During the electoral campaign, everyone wanted to give distant money, but the slogan of the "budget hole" became a good excuse for withdrawing from their electoral promises, even if it was known previously, with certainty, that there was no public money, as members of the Civic Platform were members of the government of the erstwhile term.

"100 specifics" is only portable

Members of the Civic Platform themselves acknowledged that any of the electoral demands could not be met, and the slogan to implement the 100 specifics during the first 100 days of government was only portable.

When we do this, it doesn't make any sense.. I think that we should look at the actions of the government globally, due to the fact that these actions are actually coordinated today, all ministry has quite a few current problems, but it besides prepares this strategy, this full accounting for erstwhile governments," said Minister Dariusz Wieczorek.

Senator Szejnfeld of the Civic Platform expressed a akin opinion, who said that the programme was about 100 specifics in 100 days, but not at all the following days, so it could be 100 days throughout the term, and possibly in the next.

Let us callback what members of the Civic Platform said in the election promises in 2014 in eavesdropped conversations at the "Amber Room" restaurant. At the time the Minister of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski and then the Minister of Finance Jacek Rostowski referred to the campaign. Sikorski mockedly said that "twice to promise how to keep it once," and Rostowski went 1 step further, stating, "political promises only bind those who believe in it." PO politicians have always had a disparaging attitude to election promises, and disappointed voters have termed them insane, although the second are not blameless, they have yet chosen a government that regularly deceives them.

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