Since yesterday, we know who the candidates for president of the Republic of Poland are from the 2 largest political parties. The scale of the past achievements of both gentlemen gives them mediocre legitimacy to be the head of state.
In fact, from the first general and direct presidential elections Poland was not fortunate for politicians taking the position. Almost all of them finished serving as president with a negative balance sheet. I compose almost due to the fact that the only 1 with specified affirmative achievements is Aleksander Kwasniewski. I must admit, Kwasniewski does not inspire my sympathy. I keep in head his culmination election rally during the election for the second term, as well as the evening after the election in the premises where Kwasniewski's staff and supporters celebrated the victory. I was in these places as the rapporteur of the Ridiculous “Our Journal” and the triumph of Kwasniewski I received as a individual humiliation.
I have no uncertainty that the office of the president of Poland, as defined in the 1997 Constitution's regulations, is like a badly-cut suit that can barely lie well on. I am sorry to say this, but to date, no prominent statesman or politician has been elected president of Poland, nor has a large-format statesman succeeded. I believe that the first action to indicate that a politician holding the office of president has the merit of a prominent statesman would be to teardrop up in different places this ill-adjusted suit and to strive for the introduction of a presidential strategy of government. Why the presidential system? In my opinion, this is the only way to break Poland out of holding it in an iron grip, and with disastrous effects on the functioning of the state, the organization system, in which the organization chiefs dominate, ruling on the basis of organization cameras, acting on the rule of solidarity of all mediocrity.
Therefore, the first imposing feature of both candidate PO and PiS is that as presidents they will not "jump" whether Donald Tusk or Jarosław Kaczyński. This has been since the president Aleksander Kwasniewski of the SLD, and Prime Minister Leszek Miller besides of the SLD and their "hard friendship", which meant fighting for leadership both among the widely understood left and in the structures of the state, PO and PiS leaders – becoming organization leaders – understood that the president, being a strong personality, would inevitably become a competitor to leadership. So they set up a strategy for the selection of presidential candidates so that the selected candidate would warrant full submission and availability. The perfect candidate in these respects is individual like Andrzej Duda. It is besides crucial that both Tusk and Kaczyński lost the presidential election.
Poland is in a situation where it needs strong and liable leadership. We have a strategy that doesn't give anyone the strength they need, but on this occasion eliminates responsibility. In the political system, we have a strategy of instruments for common blocking of the President, the Government and Parliament. As a consequence of the thought of balance of power, we have common paralysis. too this paralysis, there is besides a systemic fiction. Well, we have come to the conclusion that no 1 has the chance to become a prominent presidential candidate if there is no support or support for the biggest parties, or, in fact, their cameras. As I have said many times, these cameras are guided by the rule of mediocrity, so no outstanding individuality has a chance in them. The candidate can only be 1 who gives full guarantees of submission and availability. And at this point, the question is, why do we request specified a president?
Since yesterday, we have been assured that the answer to this question is that Rafał Trzaskowski or Karol Nawrocki will become presidents so that Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński do not lose real power. And that will be the most crucial political effect of the upcoming elections for president of the Republic of Poland.
Andrzej Szlezak
