During the months when the media has been pronouncing one list, I have often written that there will not be any list because it is in the sole interest of Donald Tusk and his group. The leaders of the opposition parties were well aware that drawing up a single list would mean that they would be outplayed, that their representation in the Sejm would be much smaller than if separate lists were to be assumed (provided, of course, that the electoral threshold is crossed). , there would be a problem with the distribution of the grants, and the biggest beneficiary of the entire enterprise would be Donald Tusk. The letters submitted by the PO to the Sejm only confirm these fears. Tusk turned out to be a ruthless player towards PO people, he would be even more ruthless to the rest of the opposition.
Media battles over one list lasted for months. At the time, opposition politicians tossed Tusk around like a hot potato. Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz married the PO to the left, claiming they were linked by ideological issues. The left thrust Tusk into the arms of Hołownia and Kosiniak-Kamysz, claiming that while Tusk steals left-wing slogans, he is actually closer to the center. Left-wing politicians insisted that the most natural starting point for them was a broad left-wing coalition, not a joint list in the Sejm elections.
As soon as Szymon Hołownia broke the agreement of the opposition leaders on the Supreme Court law change vote, he was immediate and relieved to be called “the gravedigger of one list”, and in April Marek Dyduch said a few words of the truth in an interview with “Wprost”, in which he admits that the idea One of the lists is that Tusk should win, and he doesn’t care about the rest. At Donald Tusk, no one wanted to just get on one list because everyone expected to be cheated.
This is how many PO politicians feel about it today, and the published letters are the best proof that Tusk has no scruples towards anyone. The most drastic example is Grzegorz Schetyna, who repeatedly demanded Tusk’s program, hinting that anti-pissism did not work, and that after the possible defeat of Tusk he would unscrupulously call him to account, and became a candidate for the Senate, which he didn’t want. because he knows that real politics is being practiced in the Sejm. While he claims today that running for Senate doesn’t feel like a form of demotion, everyone knows it’s completely different. All the more so because many of Schetyna’s closest associates were very low on the lists. Sławomir Neumann was dropped from the list altogether. There were more who were dissatisfied. Marcin Gołaszewski from Nowoczesna stated in an interview with local media that “he was screwed”. After that statement, he completely disappeared from the list. Paweł Poncyliusz may feel the same way: he took only twelfth place on the Warsaw list, although he was an extremely active critic of PiS in the media. There are probably more disappointments and clichés, but this is just proof that those who feared one list, believing that Tusk would blow them away, were right.
While no list has been made, Donald Tusk has made something like his replacement. The lists of the KO include former politicians of the left: Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka, Andrzej Rozenek, Karolina Pawliczak, former politicians of Hołownia, such as Hanna Gill-Piątek or Michał Kołodziejczak, who are only theoretically expected to carry the votes of win the village. for KO. What is all this for? To tell the voters in the decisive phase of the campaign the same as in 2015: “The people of the left are on my lists, the people of Hołownia are with me, the representatives of the village are with me, so why on others to vote? A vote for smaller opposition parties is a lost vote.” And while the left today is happy that Tusk is not attacking the country, the time will come. Especially since such a strategy was announced in January in GW by Prof. Markowski:
Voting for the largest party – people in their thirties, forty percent – is three times stronger than for a party with a few percent. So at some point, as a concerned citizen, regardless of which of the opposition parties will be the largest – or any bloc of these parties – I will strongly urge that each of us going into the election multiplies our vote by three. times, giving it to a stronger party
argued Markowski.
Those today who are happy not to be beaten by Tusk may be surprised in the final stretch before the election. Because he is the most ruthless politician in Poland.
Source: wPolityce