Sejm commission to examine controversial political financing proposal

A new proposal to finance political parties with money from the budget was presented at a conference devoted to financing political parties. The controversial issue is now under the close examination of a Sejm commission. The unpopular proposition has raised doubts from the very beginning, as it is very unlikely any citizen will be willing to spend money on political parties. According to Professor Stanislaw Gebethner, a member of one of the Sejm's commissions, the party image in Poland is very negative, since all of them concentrate mainly on vilifying each other and not on cooperating to help Polish society. Some deputies stressed that the action would cut short corruption in politics and said that in other countries almost 90% of all the parties' money comes from the budget. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 8) J.K.