The action of giving pupils retro-reflective vests has just started in this district, representative of the Minister of Justice, starts.
The campaign “Good to see you”, whose aim is to protect children against road accidents, took off on Monday in a primary school. 370 students received reflective safety vests, which will reach up to 3 million children nationwide.
The ambassador of the unique undertaking is the popular actor Cezary Pazura. At the ceremonial inauguration of the campaign, guests of the elementary school students Jan, former Minister of National Education Anna and Minister of Justice Attorney General Zbigniew, Plenipotentiary for the Justice Fund Michal. Campaign> Good to see you <is co-financed by the Justice Fund, administered by the Minister of Justice – we read on the website of the Ministry of Justice.
It so happens that Michal is also a candidate from the Law and Justice party to the regional council of the Silesian Voivodeship. He starts in circle number 3, in which there is… Kunai. How did it happen that from among 14,645 primary schools in the country, a branch was chosen from the district of the attorney of the Minister of Justice?
“I do not know, I did not do it. Please, contact the press office. Especially that apart from attending the Monday party I am on vacation. During the inauguration, I was in place, but I did not take the floor and I did not want to involve it in any way with the campaign.” assures Michal. On the question of whether the choice of the place and time of the start of the action co-financed by the fund, which he himself supervises, was not inappropriate, the plenipotentiary did not want to answer and he returned to the press office of the ministry.
The resort did not answer questions about the choice of location. It only limited the statement that the action “Good to see you” is completely apolitical and has nothing to do with the election campaign” and is organized by the National Day of Life Foundation (headquartered in Warsaw). Her boss also claims that the beginning of the action has nothing to do with local elections.
“I do not understand what’s going on. The campaign began where it began. If it started somewhere else, there would probably be some other connotations. For us, the most important thing is that the children have got vests and we do not do anything else.” says Jack, the president of the foundation.
Experts have no illusions that the action of giving vests with reflective fabrics to students also had the second bottom. “I hope that, following the changes introduced in the courts, the school in which the campaign was inaugurated was chosen at random. And if that did not happen and it was motivated by political reasons, the standards of free elections were violated .” there is no doubt Symons from the Civic Network Watchdog.
As he emphasizes, the Justice Fund is identified with the candidates of one party, which is why he adds seriously that in such a situation a lot had to be drawn. “And if due to random selection, it turned out that some publicly funded campaign would be started in the circle of the candidate supervising a given program, the lottery would have to be repeated. Otherwise, these are not free elections, but elections in which politicians with the help of public money can potentially influence the election result, which is unacceptable.” adds the lawyer.
As Pieter from the Stefan Bator Foundation emphasizes, it is difficult to speak of the violation of the electoral law, because from a formal point of view, the funds of the fund were not allocated to finance the campaign of Michal, only a nationwide campaign.
By the way, once again, the question arises about the legitimacy of changes in regulations, thanks to which money from the victim support fund can be transferred not only to victims but also to very broadly understood prevention.
“I have doubts whether funds from the fund should be used for such a purchase. Even more questionable for me is the situation in which a politician builds his campaign on giving away public money. This raises the question of whether spending these resources in this school was associated with the analysis of the needs of the local community or rather the need of the candidate for a local politician. And I must assume that the latter. “says Krzysztof, program director of the Foundation. Adding that this is not an isolated case. “It only confirms that there is a lack of concern among the politicians for the common good, and more important of them is a particular interest.” assesses the expert.
This is not the first time that supports from the Justice Fund goes to the district of Michal. When in July the fire brigade received equipment financed by the fund. Everyone knew who to owe it to. Thank you, Michal, that he supervised the handover of the equipment because we got twice as much as we expected.