The signing of the coalition agreement by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz definitively ended the period of temptation for the president of PSL, who, like Saint. Antoni opposed Satan (PiS).
And the temptations, it seems, were great: the position of Prime Minister, at least ten ministries to be filled by PSL people, the opportunity to implement his own election manifesto… the belief that the PSL leader had a historic opportunity had to take over the helm of the government and that such an opportunity will never happen to him again, or referring to the conservative roots of the pre-war PSL, and even trying to convince him that he can become a statesman equal to Witos.
Why did the Third Way turn to the path of Tusk?
However, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz donned Saint’s armor. Jerzy and, together with Donald Tusk, Szymon Hołownia and Włodzimierz Czarzasty, decided to deal the final blow to the dragon that had been terrorizing the Poles for the past eight years. In the media he says something about loyalty, about the fact that during the last two terms none of the PSL MPs have betrayed their party, that Poles finally have hope for a state that is governed justly and democratically, and this all sounds nice and sublime. but we don’t hear the answer to one question. Why did Third Road choose the path of Donald Tusk, although in May, when the electoral commission of the PSL-Hołownia 2050 coalition was founded under this name, its leaders declared that “there is no return to what it was before 2015”They promised different policies and stated that people do not want a dispute between two major camps (read: PO and PiS), but only hope and a policy that leads to something different. And if she has already chosen one of the two paths that she strongly criticizes, why Tusk’s and not Kaczyński’s?
The answer seems simple: because being in a coalition with Tusk offers much more comfort in governing, even if you are a somewhat incapacitated coalition partner, but this role does not bother Kosiniak-Kamysz at all, after all, he experienced it during two terms of the PO-PSL government and, moreover, he “took on” the two worst reforms of these governments. , as Paweł Graś, one of Tusk’s closest people, claimed: “the man carried out the two worst stories in free Poland, after Buzek: the reform of 67 and OFE. It was all on him, increasing the pension age, it was his ministry.” Therefore, if he becomes Minister of Defense (and Deputy Prime Minister) in the new government, “taking over” the downsizing of the Polish Armed Forces, as some PO politicians announce, will be a piece of cake for him. .
The official coalition agreement has no meaning
However, the comfort of ruling at Tusk’s side, with the protective umbrella of the media salon of the Third Polish Republic and the blessing and support of Berlin and Brussels, need not be the reason for Kosiniak-Kamysz’s decisive black wave of United Right. There are many indications that the coalition agreement signed by the opposition leaders is an insignificant dozen pieces of paper, which de facto places all power and the most important decisions in the hands of the prime minister, and the real agreement will never see the light of day. of day.
The coalition agreement, in addition to the announcement to give a few bead necklaces to the residents of the eight stars and the most vengeful voters for whom it is not enough to remove PiS from power, also gives them the promise of games: investigating and settling ‘lawlessness and pathology, crimes of the United Right’, bringing the most important PiS politicians to the State Tribunal (the minor ones will be dealt with by ‘depoliticized’ prosecutors and courts), the appointment of investigative committees in the Sejm. The rest is a collection of different types of general announcements that could practically be included in any coalition agreement signed by parties in different configurations.
Tusk to Brussels, Kosiniak-Kamysz to the Prime Minister’s office?
The real coalition agreement – these are just my personal assessments, but based on certain principles – that the opposition leaders concluded among themselves concerns the plan for the coming months and, in this perspective, Tusk transferring the Prime Minister’s seat to Kosiniak-Kamysz . .
In this context, it is worth recalling the words of Tusk during one of the election rallies:
Give me a hundred days, maybe four hundred days, to clean up with an iron broom and I’ll be happy to leave it to those with more delicate intentions.
They attacked this “iron broom”, remembering Himmler’s words and the anti-Semitic rhetoric of the Nazis, and the rest of this statement was silently ignored. The would-be prime minister announces that he does not intend to govern for the entire term, just to ‘clean up the house’ and… silence! There is no doubt that Kosiniak-Kamysz is the perfect candidate when it comes to ‘softer intentions’. Let’s add the words of Mateusz Morawiecki during one of the last PiS conventions:
In Brussels, but also at the last European Council, I heard that Donald Tusk had already agreed to legal immigrants. For what? He agreed with the position. The position he is promised there. (Note: there was no response from Tusk or his supporters to these words, although they immediately went to court with a half-percent error regarding unemployment as part of the election procedure).
And also Hołownia, who publicly mentioned the “rotating government”, although he quickly bit his tongue and added that the prime minister should serve the entire term. The prospect of the European Parliament elections next year and the end of Ursula von der Leyen’s term of office (the position will become vacant) closes the space that allows us to adopt what the plan is.
The plan is as follows
Donald Tusk brings order to Poland with an ‘iron broom’, but not the kind expected by opposition voters, but in Berlin and Brussels. He signs a migration pact as Prime Minister of the new government, agrees to treaty changes that subordinate the Polish state to German-French rule (even if there is no majority for ratification in the Sejm, this will be circumvented somehow with the help of the so-called European legislation, the EC and the CJEU), he will try to introduce the euro in Poland and put an end to all economic projects that are not beneficial to Germany (CPK, container port in Świnoujście, nuclear power plants , regulation of the Oder River and probably a few more small ones). He leaves the office of Prime Minister, takes up the post in Brussels, and the media, which have completely one orientation (because he will probably succeed in pacifying the public media), sing with joy and convince the Poles what an honor we country has achieved by producing not a king, but an emperor of Europe. Kosiniak-Kamysz takes over what is left of Tusk, Hołownia, from the position of Chairman of the Sejm as a candidate for the ruling coalition, is anointed to participate in the presidential elections, and Trzaskowski can fulfill his dreams of becoming president of the country to be fulfilled in a drawer, because there will be no PO support or money for the campaign. And Tzarzasty? He has to be the successor to the alternating Marshal of Hołownia in two years (the devil is happy when you say what will happen in a year, let alone two years), and now he is relieved there by Krzysztof Gawkowski’s position to give up the role of Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition government, he saved his position in the party, because the ranks of the party demanded accountability for the poor election result, not only from the very left, but also from the chairman himself, who lost to the last local activist on the list and barely made it to the Sejm.
Kosiniak-Kamysz therefore rules as much as he can, under Tusk’s complete remote controlthe media has spread a protective umbrella over it as in the years 2007-2015, the European Commission and the CJEU are not complaining, the settlements of the previous government are not so fast and smooth, some are impatient about what kind of games these when lions don’t eat Christians, others complain that they want bread instead of games… and since my imagination can go no further, I want to quote the story about the Zen master and the boy as the punch line of this text.
“We will see, we will see,” says the Zen master
In a small Indian village lived a Zen master and a little boy. For his fourteenth birthday, the boy received a horse from his father. None of his peers had a horse because the village was poor, but everyone was happy and said how lucky the boy was to have such a gift. The Zen master, observing this, said, “We will see, we will see.” After two years, the boy fell from a horse and broke two legs. He had difficulty walking and the whole village complained for the poor boy. The Zen master said again, “We’ll see, we’ll see.” War broke out and the boy, although he had reached military age, was unable to enlist because of his disability. The villagers were happy that the boy would stay at home and that nothing would happen to him. And the Zen master said…
Source: wPolityce
Emma Matthew is a political analyst for “Social Bites”. With a keen understanding of the inner workings of government and a passion for politics, she provides insightful and informative coverage of the latest political developments.