Chilly Struggle icon complains about pension — RT World Information

Former Polish president Lech Walesa has revealed that his retirement earnings isn’t fairly sufficient to make ends meet, although it’s 4 occasions the nationwide common. He as soon as led the Solidarity commerce union in its confrontation with the USSR, and served as Poland’s president from 1990 to 1995.

Walesa was the visitor on the newest episode of “Politicians’ Kitchen,” a video collection produced by the tabloid Tremendous Specific. He advised the presenters Piotr Lekszycki and Kamil Szewczyki that he was doing a lecture tour on the age of 79 so as to complement his pension.

“I’m doing this to make some cash, as a result of I haven’t got any,” Walesa stated. “I do not care about cash, I did not care in any respect, nevertheless it was sufficient for me, and now it’s not sufficient for me, so I’ve to make more money.”

He revealed that his pension was 11,000 zloty (roughly $2,640), which the outlet described as “actually gigantic” in comparison with the nationwide common of two,700 zloty. Walesa famous that the quantity had gone up from “5-6 thousand” about six months in the past.

“Now it’s somewhat higher, however the whole lot has develop into dearer, so it’s kind of the identical,” he lamented.

As of April 2023, the official year-over-year inflation in Poland was 14.7%, with meals going up by virtually 20% and power costs rising 14.8%.

Walesa attributed a few of his monetary woes to the very fact he typically chips in to assist a few of his seven surviving youngsters, three sons and 4 daughters. “Who has bees, has honey, who has youngsters, has hardship,” he advised Tremendous Specific.

Born in German-occupied Poland in 1943, Walesa grew to become an electrician on the Gdansk shipyard and finally rose to management within the impartial commerce union Solidarity. The union’s political work and collaboration with the Roman Catholic Church – led by the Polish-born Pope John Paul II – are thought-about essential to Warsaw’s break with socialism in 1989.

Although celebrated internationally, Walesa misplaced the 1995 re-election to former Communist cupboard minister Alexander Kwasniewski. After profitable simply 1.01% of the vote in 2000, he retired from politics completely. He additionally resigned from Solidarity in 2006, amid a feud with brothers Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski, leaders of the Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration that presently runs Poland.

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