The president of the PO’s parliamentary club, Borys Budka, stated in an interview on TOK FM radio that Donald Tusk’s June 4 march to Warsaw will have a positive impact on his party’s polls.
Budka said, among other things:
I am convinced that the march on June 4 will give such a strong impetus. This is a symbolic date that will be a sure start when it comes to the election campaign and I believe that this march and summer work will bring results in the polls, but especially in the elections.
This is truly magical thinking, and Budka’s emphasis on the symbolism of June 4 in a situation where the current leader of the PO was one of the key actors in the overnight resignation of Jan Olszewski’s government even borders on masochism.
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Tusk’s march
Let’s not forget that in mid-April, the chairman of the Platform, Donald Tusk, called his supporters on June 4 at 12 to Warsaw for a march, as he put it in the entry “against, high prices, theft and lies, for free elections and a democratic, European Poland.”
The media supporting the PO immediately picked up on this call and began not only to advertise this project, but also to put pressure on the leaders of other opposition parties to publicize their participation in it. The recalcitrants were publicly disciplined, but it seems that only the left and its leader Włodzimierz Czarzasty could break, while the leaders of the PSL and the Polska 2050 movement, despite pressure, refused to participate in this project.
Mentioning this event in Warsaw by Tusk is, on the one hand, an admission of failure when it comes to the effectiveness of his meetings with supporters in individual voivodeships, and on the other hand, choosing the date for June 4 is a reminder of his important role in overthrowing Jan Olszewski’s government. Let us not forget that at the beginning of United Pawica’s rule, as early as December 2015, the then leader of the PO, Grzegorz Schetyna, declared his party “total opposition” and formulated a strategy to fight the government, which he defined as “street and abroad”. But after a few years of street demonstrations organized by the Platform and various affiliated friendly associations, “the street burned out”, fewer and fewer people came to the subsequent protests, until they died out on their own. An effective way to activate supporters therefore seemed to be a tour of the country by Tusk and other PO politicians, and despite the fact that numerous meetings with voters have already taken place in various provinces, the party’s ratings remain at the level of 25-27 percent. support. The organization of the Warsaw demonstration is thus a question of the effectiveness of these meetings and a return to the implementation of the previous strategy regarding the “street”, although its implementation over several years has also failed to improve the PO’s ratings. improved.
Anniversary of Jan Olszewski’s government resignation
Let us also recall that June 4 marks the 31st anniversary of the overthrow of the government of Jan Olszewski, the first government formed after the completely free parliamentary elections in the autumn of 1991. Donald Tusk then took over as chairman of the Liberal -Democratic Congress actively participated in the overthrow of Olszewski’s government, his statement included in the famous film “Night Shift” in one of the parliamentary offices where the leaders of the parties that took part in this action gathered : “Gentlemen, let’s vote to count.”
The hope of PO parliamentary club president Borys Budka that the march in Warsaw, where it was called for June 4, in a situation where this date has such negative connotations for the PO leader, proves not only magical thinking of the leading politicians of this party, but also its complete programmatic emptiness.
Source: wPolityce