“Trzaskowski is an asset. The platform is waiting for the right moment,” announces the Michnik newspaper, which gives the impression that everything has already been decided and Donald Tusk could step out of the shadows at any moment, the deputy head of the party would ride in on a white horse and lead it to victory. Such digressions are the result of the games played by various factions within the PO, and especially the projections of some publicists who do not fully understand the mechanisms of politics.
If Rafał Trzaskowski plays a bigger role in the campaign, it will be more likely to be in support of Tusk. And he will put all his strength into it so as not to lose the chance to achieve his primary goal.
There won’t be. Here are 4 main reasons:
1) Tusk did not return to Polish politics to retire on the final straight. It would be a bigger defeat for him than beating Lech Kaczyński in the 2005 presidential election. He would admit that he was unable to beat PiS, that he was done. It would be obvious to anyone that he was running with his tail between his legs. This is not, with all due respect, Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, who can treat the company like a flower in a pot and move to another windowsill. Everyone would drive around Tusk – from right to left. And his wife, as he recently said, will not let him retire now In terms of image, he would be a disaster. The image is his third name.
2) Tusk came right back so that Trzaskowski – or no one else – would take away his company. Seeing what wave the president of Warsaw jumped on in 2020, he had to react and not let it grow too much. The old political rule that your worst enemy is in your party applies perfectly here. And since he has already shown himself to be an effective leader – after all, he has injected energy into the structures and improved the group’s ratings – why waste two years of unsympathetic efforts and give all the creams to someone else, younger, even more modern. I will never forget their joint speech last year at Campus Polska Przyszłości. This is how we reported the beginning of it in “Sieci”: “For the first 20 minutes of their meeting, he stood with his teeth gritted more and more, while the mayor of Warsaw perored, circulated among the participants, proving who was cooler here: >> We know from our children, Donald – from his grandchildren (…)<, >>We will not be divided into older and younger<<.” There are more sparks than anyone thinks.
3) Trzaskowski does not want to be Prime Minister of Tusk. If he became the head of the PO government, he would be completely dependent. It would be Tusk who would retain the prime minister’s political background. He would review his anointed. And at the right time, he probably would have replaced it. about myself.
4) Trzaskowski sticks to the plan: Palace 2025. Why pedal a thousand horses every day, make thousands of decisions, take responsibility for the actions of thousands of people, work from morning to night and be the most criticized politician in the country are, when you can try to win the presidency and hold more representative than decision-making positions? And besides, being a virtually irrevocable reviewer and government tamer – even from the same formation? Rafał Trzaskowski is also a politician – after all – lazier than Tusk, his associates talk about it openly. Running the state would just be physically too much for him. And the presidency? You can even beat it Bronisław Komorowski style.
Source: wPolityce