The most important reports on floods and flooding can now be found on the government website, available at podz2024.gov.pl. The website includes practical information for flood victims and people from risk areas, reports on crisis team meetings and a guide on available forms of help and support for victims of the natural disaster that hit the South-Western Voivodeships.
The government has previously been criticised for the information chaos surrounding the flood. “When I was the government spokesman, there was a clear procedure for such situations,” MEP Piotr Müller, a former spokesman for Mateusz Morawiecki’s office, argued on Monday. “A separate website was created on the gov.pl domain (ready-made templates are held by the Government Information Centre). The media reported that the information was available at this address. Practically all units were obliged to report information on an ongoing basis to the Prime Minister’s Office at a special email address. The CIR employees published the most important information on a dedicated website and distributed this information to the media,” the PiS politician wrote on Twitter.
The latest information about the flood on the new government website podz2024.gov.pl
Müller also pointed out that “in such circumstances, individual CIR units switched to 24-hour duty mode (there were designated people who knew in such situations that they would be on duty)” and “spokespeople of state units and voivodes were constantly with me and CIR by phone.
“Depending on the circumstances, individual institutions were given permission for independent communication in a specific area (e.g. voivodes, inspectorates) or, when the situation required it, part of the communication was centralized to avoid confusion with divergent messages,” the former government spokesman added, noting that there is no one in Donald Tusk’s office who performs such a function.
