Corruption agents arrest 25 over billion-zloty power plant losses
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The Central Anticorruption Bureau has arrested 25 people in an operation targeting the Ostrołęka power plant, where investigators say losses have reached a billion zlotys. The government describes the arrests as the start of a long-delayed cleaning of the state-owned energy sector, or as the minister in charge put it: the machine has started.
Relations between the Prime Minister and the presidential palace have returned to their habitual state of friction. After the US election results, the palace issued a fresh warning to Donald Tusk, while the Prime Minister and opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński spent the day exchanging brief, incredulous posts on social media. Tusk summed up the day in three words; the public responded with thousands.
The Senate has blocked a plan to grant doctors pensions for life, while the Constitutional Tribunal remains deadlocked. The court’s latest struggle for credibility involves a video of a judicial draw that appears to show the same slip of paper being used twice. In the capital, police seized 156 million zlotys worth of electric scooters in a separate operation involving 150 officers.