Anna Mazur

Numbers instead of political promises

Anna Mazur joined Sejmometr Media in November 2018. Since then, she has dealt exclusively with what politicians record in financial tables. She doesn't look for sensations on social media because she believes real information is hidden in the attachments to bills. In the last 12 months, she has analyzed exactly 156 reports on the activities of parliamentary offices, catching errors in fuel settlements.

In our newsroom, Anna is responsible for monitoring the lobbying register. We checked it in the tables – in 2023 alone, she identified 83 cases where entries were incomplete or late. Thanks to her work, we prepared 14 reports for local newspapers showing how interest groups influence specific draft resolutions. Anna does not use unnecessary adjectives. If she writes that spending increased by 12.4%, she has confirmation from three different source documents.

A special field of her activities is the so-called mileage records. Anna verified the settlements of 42 MPs from the Lesser Poland and Silesian provinces. She compared the declared mileage of cars with their real technical possibilities. The result of this work is concrete data: in 7 cases, the sum of kilometers driven was physically impossible to perform in the declared time. Such facts allow voters to evaluate the work of politicians without unnecessary emotions.

Analytical work at Sejmometr Media requires patience. Anna can spend 6 hours on a single invoice for legal consulting to check if the selected law firm actually provided services for the Sejm. Only concrete data allows us to create charts that cannot be challenged during a debate. Anna often says that numbers don't lie, even if politicians try very hard to bend them.

Sometimes we refuse to prepare material if the data is uncertain. Anna ensures that every infographic on our site has solid foundations. She believes that financial transparency is the basis of democracy. If you are looking for information on how much it really costs to maintain one MP, the data collected by Anna will give you the answer in 3 minutes. No political babble and no beating around the bush.