Although the Civic Coalition is running a campaign based on the concept of leaving its own lists and betting on the Tusk-Trzaskowski duo, the chances of an agreement with Szymon Hołownia – with regard to the lists – are being discussed by PO politicians in unofficial calls rated as “half and half”.
Since February, the Civic Coalition club has been touring all counties as part of the #Here is the Future tour. The visiting pattern is always the same: MPs visit all poviats, PO leader Donald Tusk has an open meeting in a smaller town and on the second day a partially public meeting of the Civic Coalition club is held in the provincial capital.
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“It seems that we are doing everything according to the rules of the art … “
So far, six voivodeships have been visited in this way, Podlaskie is visited on Thursdays and Fridays, and then Podkarpackie and Świętokrzyskie are scheduled.
It’s just that the #Here is the future tour – as KO politicians admit – isn’t translating into KO and PO polls in any way for now. It’s even worse than it was – according to a CBOS poll, for example, between February and March, PiS gained two percentage points (from 36 to 38 percent) and the Civic Coalition lost four percentage points (from 22 to 18 percent).
It seems that we do everything according to the rules of the art – we meet people, talk to them about their problems, propose different solutions, like grandmother’s, and the polls go down
– regrets one of the members of the Civic Coalition.
Some PAP interlocutors of the KO club are convinced that a political investment in the form of a tour of the whole country should pay off sooner or later.
We will not be able to assess the effects until June 4, when the action is scheduled to end
another MP told PAP.
Tusk reaches for Trzaskowski
Nevertheless, the lack of opinion polls influenced the change of the original plans and the decision to resort to the political “Wunderwaffe”, i.e. the presentation at such meetings, in addition to Tusk, of Warsaw President Rafał Trzaskowski, who was supported by more than 10 million voters in the 2020 presidential election and then lost to Andrzej Duda.
Rafał Trzaskowski is one of the vice-chairmen of the PO, and this is an all-hands-on-deck election. All vice presidents will be at work and Rafał Trzaskowski will attend many meetings
– Robert Kropiwnicki told PAP, adding that the Warsaw president’s calendar is being adjusted to the KO’s campaign plans.
Donald Tusk is the captain of the team and a good team captain focuses on different players
– added Member of Parliament Arkadiusz Marchewka.
Deputy head of the PO, Tomasz Siemoniak, was asked on Radio Zet on Thursday whether Tusk was simply forcing Trzaskowski to join the campaign.
Rafał Trzaskowski is the vice president of the PO, a patriot of the opposition and no one can force him to anything
said Simoniak.
“We could also propose Trzaskowski as prime minister…”
The involvement in Trzaskowski’s campaign, PO politicians admit, is also due to the fact that for some time it was heard in the public space that the president of Warsaw, who has a better reputation, should be a candidate for the premiership in place of Tusk. Such opinions can, of course, still be heard in conversations with some PO politicians who maintain anonymity.
We need to do as PiS did in 2015, when they hid Kaczyński and put forward Beata Szydło as a candidate for prime minister. We could also propose Trzaskowski as prime minister
– said one of the members of KO in an interview with PAP.
This would be the best solution, although I don’t really believe it will be possible to implement it
he determined.
Sławomir Nitras, a close associate of Trzaskowski, was asked in “Express Biedrzycka” on Thursday whether Tusk in Biała Podlaska had already anointed Warsaw’s president as a second, equal leader.
The leader in the parliamentary elections is Donald Tusk. Since there was various press speculation about a possible replacement (candidate for prime minister), we decided that cuts had to be made, because that certainly does not serve us
Nitros explained.
“We have to win the election first.”
Another KO MP noted in an interview with PAP that while Trzaskowski has no chance of running as a prime ministerial candidate, he could already be cast in a specific role in the campaign, for example presented as an expert on international affairs and candidate for Secretary of State.
First we have to win the elections, only then do we build a government
Kropiwnicki commented on these ideas.
Today the most important thing is to mobilize and encourage people to vote for our candidates
– added.
In turn, Nitras ruled that Trzaskowski is already “several lengths ahead” of other potential candidates in the 2025 presidential election.
“The train is leaving now”
In their official statements, KO politicians also ensure that the time for negotiating a joint list is over and that the Civic Coalition is just starting its own campaign.
The train is already leaving, if the other groups don’t want a joint list, there won’t be one
– admitted Marchewka in an interview with PAP.
Meeting between Tusk and Hołownia
Nevertheless, as “Wyborcza.pl” reported, the first meeting between Donald Tusk and the leader of Poland 2050, Szymon Hołownia, took place around Easter. PO politicians confirm in conversations with PAP that such a meeting actually took place and admit that they can be interpreted as ‘last chance’ talks about joint lists.
The probability of such lists today can be estimated at fifty-fifty
– a prominent PO politician told PAP.
Also Sławomir Nitras in “Express Biedrzycka”, stipulating that he had no knowledge of the Tusk-Hołownia meeting, suggested that according to his “political nose” everything was going in the right direction. According to him, the march announced for June 4 is “a good opportunity to show that we can work with the opposition”.
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Source: wPolityce