Tusk’s style of politics is known to be too selfish and authoritarian for a large portion of voters and opposition leaders to generate the enthusiasm needed by Democrats as future prime minister, editor Jacek Żakowski laments in Gazeta Wyborcza. Rafał Trzaskowski becomes an undisguised lifeline of last resort for the opposition.
Weakness and fear
From the “text in “Wyborcza” we learn that editor Żakowski is sleepless with “mood/inclination”, that the opposition camp will no longer be able to “execute the poll jump” allowing victory, because – as he suggests – it’s not so much about the victory of the PO or any other party, it’s about mobilizing “non-PiS voters”
We worry or worry about what will happen in the fall
writes Żakowski, recalling another failure of the “joint march against the PiS power”: the fiasco of the joint list, the unreality of forming a joint minimum program, or – as he writes – a joint march on Sunday, June 4 . Therefore, the well-known maneuver to exchange the “candidate of last chance” for attracting an electorate unwilling to the current government is becoming more and more real.
Reflected by the glass ceiling of distrust of voters and the rest of the opposition, Donald Tusk called on Rafał Trzaskowski for help
– we read in “Wyborcza”.
Works faster in tandem. But not necessarily more efficient
– notes Żakowski, pondering who will get more out of this tandem: Tusk or Trzaskowski, and whether “the quietly heralded return to joint list talks will bring more benefits than losses.”
Last Chance Candidate
However, considering that “continuing mixing the same dilemmas won’t sweeten the opposition’s tea,” and encouraging “to add something important to it,” Żakowski admits that “Trzaskowski seconding Tusk won’t be anything like that .”
There aren’t many options, but one is visible. It is about the appointment of a spitzenkandidat, or a future joint prime minister. […] Tusk’s style of politics is known to be too selfish and authoritarian for much of the electorate and opposition leaders to generate the enthusiasm Democrats need as a future prime minister.
– says Żakowski directly, adding that:
Tusk is an effective leader of PO. There is no competition here. But he is not and will not be an effective leader of the opposition because he is too conflicted.
Change of leader.
When other ways to achieve the polling breakthrough needed to remove PiS from power clearly failed, the answer to the lack of confidence was […] and the lack of enthusiasm from Democratic voters becomes Trzaskowski – not as a new leader of PO or KO, but as a spitzenkandidat discreetly agreed upon and announced by the opposition parties. This may be the last chance to switch power in the fall
– concludes editor Żakowski.
Well, for some time now it has become clear that journalists from the daily newspaper Wyborcza dictate to the opposition who its “lifeline” is, that this circle is necessary for the opposition and that this circle is no longer Donald Tusk.
rdm/”Gazeta Wyborcza”
Source: wPolityce