Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – According to the entrepreneurs, the new Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, should focus not to raise the deficit and taxes as well as remember about the business.
The new PM is not very much interested in economy.
“He pays attention to what I say but sometimes when I talk about economic issues he is bored, very bored”, this is what Stanislaw Kostrzewski, the deputy CEO of BOS bank and earlier the PiS member responsible for the party’s finances during last elections, told about Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of PiS in a February interview for ‘Rzeczpospolita’ daily.
Today, however, as the PM, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has to focus on economic issues. “PB” asked businessmen and prepared a list of issues which the new PM should take into consideration in his expose.
1. Not to raise the deficit2. Not to raise the taxes. PiS promised during the election campaign to lower taxes3. To low extra labor costs. The social insurance fees discourage employers to hire workers. In order to cut these costs, the government should verify health payments4. Continue privatization which was stopped via the stock exchange5. Set the deadline of entering the euro zone or to state clearly that the government wants Poland to stay beyond the zone. The markets would prefer to know the truth.6. Promise warm investment climate. End the conflict with Eureko over PZU with a settlement7. Increase the pace of construction works by amending the law.8. Amend business courts, it takes 1,000 days to execute debts in Poland9. Fight the corruption not only by founding new controlling entities but by creating easy and transparent procedures. 10. Better use EU funds11. Not to attack the central bank, especially that PiS boasts with the lowest inflation in Europe, a success of NBP
How the business comments the nomination of Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
“It is good that the leader of the ruling party will be personally responsible for the government. But will the situation in Poland be more stabile? I think it should be calmly till local elections but then the coalition parties will again start to quarrel, which would be not a good sign for the economy. They do no good to running business, public finances or exchange rates. I would like to be wrong, however, and to see the Parliament and the government working together to realize their previous promises”, Leszek Kawski, the general director of the National Council of Poultry said.
“The changes are a hope that the laws for the banking sector will again be discussed. There are works going on to found an integrated financial supervisory board. We would like to amend the credit law which today blocks the way for some clients”, Krzysztof Pietraszkiewicz, the CEO of the Association of Polish Banks said.
“I expect quick solutions made in agreement with the public. I expect that the government will work faster. PiS and Samoobrona are parties run by strong leaders. If the leadership consists in making quicker changes, it can get better. Jaroslaw Kaczynski will no longer govern from behind the scene, he will take full responsibility. There will be a clear system, which is a positive thing. It will be also easier for him to talk to the two deputy PMs who are the leaders of their own parties”, Jerzy Bartnik, the CEO of the Association of Polish Handcraft added.
“I assume that there will be no changes in the economic policies. The policies should be continued, the budget will be realized thanks to growing economy. I don’t expect bigger spending in the budget. Stanislaw Kluza, the new minister of finance, took part in planning the budget for 2007 so the assumptions will not be changed probably”, Maciej Reluga, BZ WBK bank chief economist commented.
“15 years of experience show that politicians say something else before elections and nominations and do something else later on. That’s why the new PM may turn out to be not as bad as economic experts view him. I hope for that. I hope it will be possible to find agreement with him in matters important for the business and economy and to push Poland forward. There are some doubts, however. Jaroslaw Kaczynski is more a politician and economic indices are not that important to him. He may take economic decisions via the politics”, Marek Goliszewski, the CEO of Business Centre Club said.