The opposition feeds on sweet news about internal frictions and tensions in the ruling camp. Indirect evidence of these optimistic dissonances, from the opposition point of view, is yesterday’s entry into the government of Jarosław Kaczyński, whose main task is to reconcile broken relations between some members of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s cabinet. This interpretation of political facts by the opposition reaffirms the proverb about remembering the straw in the opponent’s eye and ignoring the beam in your own. And this bar is the conflict between two titans of the Polish political scene – the Marshal of the Senate, Prof. Tomasz Grodzki and known throughout the European Union (certainly in Italy near Rome) Patron Roman Giertych.
Let Giertych prove himself in a district where it is more difficult
– the Marshal of the Senate quite brusquely called the Warsaw lawyer to confirm his political aspirations.
The case started innocently enough. At that time, no one could even imagine that it would overgrow such tensions that would culminate in an explosion that could lead to the disintegration of the Polish opposition. And this is potentially the biggest political turning point in terms of potential, and that is always parliamentary elections. Regardless of the result. Because usually for some part of the game – whether it’s won or lost – it’s a breakthrough moment.
I am not in the head of the aforementioned Roman Giertych, so it is difficult for me to say what motivated him, what motives swelled to such an extent that they led him to announce the following:
I’m going to run for the Senate on my own committee.
And after a while he elaborated more on this announcement:
I will sit in the Poznań constituency from an independent committee, hopefully with the support of opposition parties, but from an independent committee. That’s how I’ll feel most comfortable
– informed all of Poland Roman Giertych.
Read – I will be comfortable. I’m not surprised, it’s very human to want to feel comfortable. That nothing would happen to him.
He spoils Grodzki’s plans
Unfortunately, he forgot about others, including Marshal Tomasz Grodzki, whose patron Roman Giertych ruined his plans. More precisely, it destroys Tomasz Grodzki’s commitments called the “Senacki Pact” (I assume that in case of success it will be known in the future as the “Grodzki Pact”). According to the construction, all Senate constituencies are already staffed by politicians of the democratic opposition, reserved only for candidates of Prof. Tomasz Grodzki.
Roman Giertych, making an arbitrary decision about his own start, “starts by evicting Jadwiga Rotnicka, who is imprisoned in the Poznań district.” According to Roman Giertych, who is, after all, connected with the democratic opposition with heart and soul, says Prof. Tomasz Grodzki breaks the Senate pact.
And that means, added the Senate Marshal, “not serving the Democratic side well and building the Senate so that we get a majority.”
You can already see that the fight between Prof. Tomasz Grodzki and Roman Giertych could have catastrophic consequences for the stability and unity of the democratic opposition in Poland.
We will follow the development of the clash and its results with great interest.
Source: wPolityce