Everyone wants to be the smartest, i.e. take the job first and then let whatever happens happen because it is not easy to remove the Marshal or the Prime Minister.
If opposition politicians still say that everything is perfect when it comes to forming a new government and that no one will harm anyone, that should be interpreted the other way around. Those ‘friends’ fear nothing but being drowned in a spoonful of water by those who declare the utmost friendship, loyalty and even love. This state of affairs causes distrust in the distribution of positions in government and parliament.
It seems that the idea of rotating positions is a joke or some kind of fixation on parity and symmetry (in the universe, symmetry and its breaking, even spontaneously, are fundamental). If we thought that, we would be wrong (here the traditional comment for Borys Budka is that it is not a language error, but the logic and semantics of Lech Wałęsa). Rotation is simultaneously an expression of hope and distrust.
Let’s start with hope: if we were to hold positions in parliament or government on a rotating basis, this should prevent us from dividing everything at once and for a long time and taking as much as possible for ourselves. Because later things may be different with the coalition, and what has been won cannot easily be given back. Establishing yourself in a position can be a stabilizer that protects against division, rifts, or betrayal. First, entrenched people tend to be important figures in their parties. Secondly, one defends one’s own trenches with greater commitment and sacrifice than abstract ideas or less abstract ideologies. And so the coalition can be defended, even by accident.
However, distrust is probably more important than hope. At the first level, distrust is the fear of not fulfilling the promise that the parties will, if necessary, agree on their positions. For example, the parties agree that if Szymon Hołownia were chairman of the Sejm, Magdalena Biejat would be chairman of the Senate, Donald Tusk would be the prime minister and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Krzysztof Gawkowski would be the deputy prime ministers. and ministers (from the Ministry of Defense and Digital Affairs respectively). Only that would be too easy.
Any agreements with Donald Tusk assume (this is known to the Third Way, the New Left, but also to the Civic Coalition) that nothing has to conform, and moreover, everyone must live and act in the belief that ‘he neither sees the day nor the hour.” The wonders of blindness can be discussed, but nothing comes of it when it comes to the durability and predictability of the findings. This also applies to rotation.
However, rotation is just a trick. Or avoid. The most important thing is who will be the first to occupy a certain position. The next in line can warm up the engines or charge the batteries as they wish, but they are dependent on the decisions of those to be changed. And they actually occupy the only place where they can be whistled. Unless someone wants to stay on the sidelines of big politics.
Let’s imagine that as part of the rotation, someone was appointed Chairman of the Sejm or Prime Minister for a year (or two). And this person (with the knowledge of the authorities of his own formation) holds this office for this year (two), and then tells the coalition partners that they can “kiss him where you can kiss the foreman…”. It seems like a violation of the rules, but practical steps to remove such a person threaten to destroy the coalition, which the coalition partners are not willing to allow. The atmosphere in the coalition is gloomy and somber, but remains persistent.
The cost of building a coalition capable of removing the recalcitrant occupier from the position of marshal or prime minister would be high, as it would likely be necessary to reach an agreement with part of the opposition. And what would it look like if their own people went against their own people? It’s just a bloodbath. Anyone would put on a good face at a bad game, but continuing the coalition, especially after eight years of PiS rule, would be downright mandatory. Even though the coalition looked like a pathological family.
If the Civic Coalition, Third Way and New Left are talking about a rotation variant as part of the set, you can blindly bet it’s outright fraud. Everyone declares that things are going well, but a technical problem remains: who will be the first marshal, who will be the prime minister, etc. And everyone wants to be the smartest impostor, that is, get the job first. And then let him do what he wants, because it is really not easy to remove the chairman or the prime minister. And those who were first can show the next in line how to whistle or kiss.
It is quite reasonable to assume that all parties are thinking about being the first to fill the changing positions and trying to figure out how to fool their partners, i.e. convince them that it is just a technical matter, too although that is not the case. This can make it difficult to adopt the rotation variant – for fear of being rolled over. On the other hand, the lack of rotation also makes it difficult to reach an agreement, as there may not be a chance to change anything. All this will probably take time because when you gamble, you never know when to stop playing to avoid getting scammed. So you have to buy popcorn, take a comfortable place and watch how the “friends” set traps for themselves and try to kill the others in a bamboo pile.
Source: wPolityce