In the new issue of “Sieci”, President Andrzej Duda explains in a unique interview the reasons for entrusting the mission of forming a government to Mateusz Morawiecki. He also spoke about relations with the President of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, and pointed out the threats posed by attempts to amend European treaties. Articles from the current issue available as part of the Network of Friends subscription: https://wpolityce.pl/tygodniksieci/wydanie-biezace.
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, in a conversation with Marzena Nykiel and Marcin Wikło (“Donald Tusk is not my candidate for Prime Minister”), comments on the latest events in Polish politics. He notes that the lack of representatives of the winning party in the Presidium of the Sejm and the Senate proves…
discrepancies between statements in the public space and practice. On the one hand we hear nice sounding slogans about democracy, but on the other hand a specific form of retaliation is being practiced. […]. A situation where the largest parliamentary club, […] it has no representatives in the authorities of the Sejm and the Senate, it has nothing to do with the principles of democracy.
Andrzej Duda also explains why he decided to entrust Mateusz Morawiecki with the mission of forming the government:
The representatives of the Civic Coalition, the Left and the Third Way have not convinced me that it is worth giving up the good parliamentary tradition, according to which the victorious group is the first to be given the mission to form a government forms. Under the current Constitution, all presidents, including my predecessors, Presidents Kwaśniewski, Kaczyński and Komorowski, have always entrusted the mission of forming a government to the winning party. This year’s elections were won by Law and Justice.
The president also adds what he missed during consultations with coalition representatives:
I wanted to see a common and unified program. Listen to as many details as possible. This was missing. Secondly, representatives of individual political camps, who today declare that they are forming a coalition, have said completely different things during these talks on very important, fundamental issues. For example, regarding important issues related to Poland’s sovereignty.
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“Reality show in Wiejskastraat”
Dorota Łosiewicz, in the article “Reality show in Wiejska Street”, comments on the work of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, which is beginning its 10th term. He noted that the events that took place in the plenary hall resembled more of a spectacle than a debate of the country’s representatives. The first speech of the new chairman of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, who announced his presence in the media and his own podcast, caused a stir.
“Podcasting? Did Marshal Hołownia just announce his podcast? Too bad he didn’t ask for a sub and a like. “We have great years ahead of us,” writer Szczepan Twardoch said ironically on the X platform. “You have talent,” Dominika Chorosińska from PiS (formerly an actress), elected for a second term, shouted from the parliamentary bench to Szymon Hołownia, referring to the title of the reality show that Hołownia presented for many years. The MP later explained to Wirtualna Polska: “He will have to use this talent to move from this blissful ignorance to what a marshal’s job is all about.”
The journalist also emphasizes that the composition and atmosphere in the Sejm of the 10th term give rise to the right to assume that it will be a great reality show.
The Confederation would support Szymon Hołownia’s candidacy for the position of speaker in exchange for Bosak becoming the deputy speaker of the chamber. The brief meeting between Szymon Hołownia and Krzysztof Bosak before the vote caused general hilarity among Internet users and observers, as it was noted that it was a meeting of “Dancing with the Stars” and “Got Talent”. […] And in the Sejm of the tenth semester, there are more participants in the reality show than just the speaker of this room. Bartosz Arłukowicz from KO gained fame in the program “Agent”. The winner of the format became interested in the then ruling SLD, from which Arłukowicz later joined PO. Viewers of “Idol” should also remember Jakub Rutnicki. A promising musician took part in the first edition of the television show. In 2005 he was first elected as a member of parliament for the PO.
“Prominent historian under fire”
Jakub Augustyn Maciejewski, in the article “Distinguished historian under fire”, comments on the process in which the author of the textbook “History and Present”, Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski. It was brought by internet activist Kamil Mieszzankowski, who appears on social media as the Bezczelny Lewak, because he felt offended that the text of the textbook insulted his daughter, conceived with the help of in vitro fertilization.
There is no talk of in vitro, but only a dilemma regarding the future of ‘reproductive rights’, where fertilization can take place without parental love: ‘The increasingly sophisticated methods of separating sex from love and fertility lead to treating the sphere of sex as entertainment, and the sphere of fertility as the production of people, you might say – reproduction,” we read in the textbook. “This raises a fundamental question: who will love the children produced in this way? A country that takes care of this kind of ‘production’? “Parental love is and remains the basis of everyone’s identity.”
– notes Maciejewski.
The journalist notes the absurdity of the whole situation, one of the consequences of which is the removal of the disputed fragment from the next edition of the textbook, […] because the authors did not want to offend anyone, nor did they want to run the risk that the court would decide to “secure” the subject of the dispute, that is, prevent the publication and distribution of the book.
The absurd lawsuit, which will probably not lead to a conviction, has already had concrete consequences for the author and publisher. “This process costs us not only money for lawyers, not only the time we spend responding to pleadings, preparations and hearings, but also simply our health,” they explain in the publisher. However, the hate campaign was so successful that teachers were actually discouraged and intimidated from using the textbook.
Worth the attention!
We also recommend articles by: Bronisław Wildstein “The Silent Loss of Independence”, Dorota Łosiewicz “How to talk to a Platforma voter?”, Stanisław Janecki “Democratic Murder”, Konrad Kołodziejski “The Left Without a Future”, Maciej Walaszczyk “Education of the New Power”, Marek Pyza “Berlin Narrative”, Dariusz Matuszak “The EU closes down the system with censorship”, Marek Budzisz “Military victory, but political defeat”, Jan Rokita “Overthrowing Sánchez’s tyranny”.
Also worth seeing are the conversations: Andrzej Rafał Potocki with Paweł Zalewski, MP and politician of the Third Way “We are against changes in EU treaties”, Goran Andrijanić with Prof. David Engels, a Belgian historian living in Poland, chief analyst from the Western Institute in Poznań “What happened in Poland” or Michał Karnowski with Ryszard Czarnecki, Member of the European Parliament “It doesn’t have to be this way ends Poloniae“.
In addition, the weekly magazine also contains commentary on current events by Krzysztof Feusette, Dorota Łosiewicz, Bronisław Wildstein, Andrzej Rafał Potocki, Marta Kaczyńska-Zielińska, Samuel Pereira, Alina Czerniakowska, Lech Makowiecki, Andrzej and Katarzyna Zybertowicz.
More in the new issue of the weekly magazine “Sieci”. Articles from the current issue are available online as part of the subscription to the Network of Friends: https://wpolityce.pl/tygodniksieci/wydanie-biezace. We also invite you to watch the television program wPolsce.pl.
Source: wPolityce