Public interest goes out the window as politicians prefer to feather their nests

This is the conclusion drawn by Piotr Koryś, an author of a report published by the Batory Foundation, an organization that seeks to develop democratic societies within the former Eastern Bloc. In the report, Koryś claims that politicians today enter politics in order to benefit personally as soon as possible and only act for the benefit of the public they are meant to represent if it coincides with their own private agenda of feathering their own nests. Individuals at the center of political scandals generally remain influential and are not usually expelled from their parties due to their contacts and connections within the political machine, even though they may have lost their public credibility long ago. The report also says that political parties are only willing to demand responsibility from its members prior to going to the polls. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) J.J.