“Mogoswaia is a village adjacent to the Romanian capital, Bucharest, famous for its palace in the style of the Roman Renaissance. Between 10 and 12 September, it was overshadowed by football feelings. In this village and in another town – Boveti – Parliament was the football tournament held and it includes the teams of Italy and Ukraine, Turkey, and Romania, and the latter country had two teams: of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and Polish deputies also attended, and in their case the departure was very expensive., “writes Rzeczpospolita.”
“There were 16 of them in total, including 11 from the Law and Justice Club (Marek Asst, Minister of Sports, Kamel Bortnichok, Marcin Guddu, Jan Kanthak, Bartosz Konaki, Jaroslaw Kragowski, Vyslav Kragowski, Bwe Lisicki, Grizigors Matusiak, Marcin Porzuek) and Krzysztof Gawkowski from left, Dariusz Klimczak from PSL, Krzysztof Tuduj from the Federation, Michał Wypij from the Convention and Łukasz Mejza Independent, until recently Deputy Minister of Sports. KO’s Michai Garros was also on the list, but eventually canceled the trip “- we read in the magazine.
Rzeczpospolita adds that tickets cost 3.1 thousand PLN each. Palestinian zlotys, excluding Mezzeh, where expenses amounted to 5.8 thousand. zloty. Gives a total of 53,000. PLN “- we read in the newspaper.
According to Rzeczpospolita, there are, among other things, diets and insurance as well as the costs of leaving two employees of the House of Representatives Chancellery, Including the captain of the Marshal’s guard, Mikhai Sadoy, whose participation in the team was allowed by the tournament regulations. How much were the full costs – the Sejm Information Center did not answer us, explaining, among other things, the closing of the fiscal year and the status of a pandemic. However, taking into account the costs of the trip, it was probably the most expensive trip in this class from Seym – as the daily thinks.
“Some deputies travel tickets abroad cost more. For example, in December 2019, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives from the PiS traveled to Mongolia for PLN 25.7 thousand at the invitation of the deputy speaker of the parliament of that country, while visiting To 20.3 thousand PLN cost in Washington, in February 2020, Arcadius Marchuka, Member of Parliament from KO. MEPs traveled in groups to attend some political events, incl. NATO Parliamentary Assembly sessions. However, it probably didn’t cost anything to do with the championship anyway.”
Why did the taxpayer have to pay this cost? “The Parliamentary Football Tournament is a cyclical event, organized by individual parliaments since 2012,” the House Information Center explains to the daily, and members of the representation stress that the event also had a political dimension.
