In an interview with Adam Bilanwhich will be published in the Monday edition of the weekly magazine “Sieci”, you will find many interesting diagnoses and statements, as he is an experienced politician and author of election campaigns, but one statement in particular caught my attention.
“I don’t want to look too far into the future, but I will put forward a proposition that if we win now, by which I mean the possibility of staying in power, we can think more calmly about the fourth term. . Today we are fresh out of the period when all possible, unthinkable plagues hit Poland. But we did it and that’s encouraging.”
says Bielan.
That’s true: without the pandemic, the war, the pit inflation that follows, the energy crisis, the challenges associated with the massive refugee influx, the need for massive armaments, the opposition wouldn’t even think about taking power. Stopping theft, redirecting huge financial flows to Polish families, a leap in infrastructure development, rebuilding the army, reversing the migration direction (not leaving Poland but returning to Poland) all resulted in a big positive difference in the quality of government. Even the passage of time would not soon erase the significance of this difference.
The aforementioned crises that came from outside, despite the effective response of the government, nevertheless resulted in one sum of fear and angerthat the opposition saw it as an opportunity. Donald Tusk, the prime minister of poverty in Poland, has been working since his return to stir up bad emotions. He takes them all, even if they contradict each other. He shares the anger of those who want to help Ukraine even more, he is with those who think we help too much. He strives to keep KPO funds illegally blocked and yells about a harmful block. He winks at the company that he will end employee “debauchery”, telling employees that he will take better care of them.
Such lies and rudeness, such blatant taking of political gifts from Moscow (well inflation, energy blackmail) and Berlin (illegitimate sanctions, “firewalls against PiS”) has never been seen in Polish politics. Moreover, vulgar language intended to humiliate opponents is not reprimanded in any way by the major media outlets supporting Tusk.
Vacations begin more than three months before the election. The density and frequency of political events will decrease for a while, Politicians also have families, they need rest. This is a good time for the entire pro-Polish camp to think coolly about the situation and draw conclusions.
The polls show a very even battle. The opposition has failed to break support for Jarosław Kaczyński’s camp, and repeated surveys to show the alleged priority of the PO fail. Tusk is the leader of the opposition and its face, with all its consequences. All the efforts of many media and intellectual centers to build a wide range for “trans” and “moderate” Catholics were in vain. There is Tusk and nothing else. He won’t win new voters for the opposition, eat smaller portions. With his hits in social affairs, which Bielan also points out, he feeds the Confederacy.
United law won the winter battle over coal and beat electricity prices, announced the expected increase from 500 Plus to 800 Plus, put the project of free medicines for people under 18 and over 65 on the table. As announced, inflation is falling, which is painful for all of us, unemployment is at record lows, the economy is booming. The PiS camp remains the most credible political force, keeps his word that he will build a strong army, protect the borders in the east, will not agree to the forced displacement of migrants, defend sovereignty. It remains united, with the undisputed and effective leadership of Jarosław Kaczyński.
These are all strong arguments. There are no objective reasons for Poland to change power at this time, in addition to preparing hell for a cold civil war, as a possible Prime Minister Tusk would immediately throw himself at President Andrzej Duda’s throat. By the way, this should be a strong argument for the president to support Kaczyński’s camp, as this camp backed him with all his might in the 2020 campaign.
Politics is not fair. Reigning for eight years forces you into repetitive rituals, many people develop natural fatigue, others pay a high image price for difficult decisions. Therefore, the PiS staff should mainly use the short summer vacation to analyze and rebuild the emotional and personal area. Who speaks and to whom? Shouldn’t some government messages be removed? Isn’t it about time we went into the field together, broke through the rut, broke with the government’s way of communicating? Listen to the Poles with humility, defend your decisions, invite supporters to campaign cooperation.
In this dimension a really sharp tug is necessary, a repeat of the 2015 campaign. Also a new language. This is the only way to win against the hater Tusk, who is trying to push the rulers into the seats of supposed complacency. The more it pushes, the sooner you have to throw the chairs out the window and run this campaign with as much energy as if you were in the opposition.
Jarosław Kaczyński would have to take the keys to everyone’s offices and drive them into the field. Even if someone in this area gets spanked for this, it’s worth it. There will be many points for good governance in October. But for today it is not enough to continue to reign alone. You have to accept it and you have to chase it.
Too many government announcements today, constantly adding new elements, sometimes in great detail. The opening of the tunnel under Świna, a beautiful, proud moment, should symbolically close the moment of looking back. We have to move forward. You must, as Jacek Karnowski wrote, create a white and red wave.
The government’s message before the elections must be radically limited to the main campaign themes. You should only give the microphones to selected people who fall into certain groups (maybe a few completely new faces) because in today’s hustle and bustle the overall message gets lost, everything is overwhelmed by an unbearably bureaucratic story about successive stages of the process of power to exercise.
Let’s not forget: on the other hand, there is a hater who does not play with nuances.
The 2020 presidential campaign must and can be repeated. Then the time was also tough, the pandemic, the opposition’s dirty games around the election date, the substitution of candidates – and yet the pro-Polish camp was victorious. Since the battle was not fought from official positions, the candidate did not shine with majesty and merits, but was on the road non-stop, moreover, without a coat, supported everywhere by PiS structures, which, after all, pulled this campaign .
So they can.
Law and justice today must reach for that formula, that energy, that efficiency and the belief to win. He must send men on such a path. The alternative is deadly complacency in the style of Bronisław Komorowski’s 2015 campaign.
When looking at specific issues, PiS’s views are supported by the majority of Poles. Despite eight years of rule, several setbacks. The task is to reach them.
PS And it’s worth not planning anything with the Confederacy today. As I wrote in these pages, in moments of trial they always went with the camp of the Third Republic of Poland.
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Source: wPolityce