My guest in the new one on Friday evening Television in Poland (ask your cable company for this station) was a publicist, former politician, Jan Rokita. I include a summary of what I consider an interesting conversation that provides important diagnoses of political reality.
MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI: Will they take over the Constitutional Tribunal? Will they also “deal with resolutions”?
JAN ROKITA: Yes. Honestly there isn’t much to consider, the answer is simple: yes.
Will they also take over the National Bank of Poland?
This will be complicated, they’ll probably come back to it later. Now they are figuring out how to do that and if they ‘get assurance from the European Central Bank, get permission from the management of the European bank in Frankfurt, then yes. They can arrange this with French President Macron.
Will they want to impeach the president?
Probably not that much. The scenario announced by Jarosław Kurski in Gazeta Wyborcza, in which he writes to the president: “You are no longer here” is coming.
We will see the president’s deep contempt. Tusk repeats the scenario used against the late. Lech Kaczyński – not in the sense of an attack or a catastrophe, but an attempt to marginalize and ridicule. The idea then was to ignore him, to ridicule him, to make him look like a person of no importance. These latest statements from the coalition representatives show that they have not come up with anything else.
How can the president defend himself?
The problem is that the president has not had the slightest success in any of these battles, nor has he been able to counter them at all—characteristically even when he tried. It seems the president has no idea how to oppose it and is afraid of going too fast.
Please note: this involves a campaign in the West. During the Davos Forum, the website Politico, read by the elites, published a ranking of people who should not be there. He placed several tyrants there, really bad people – and also the President of Poland. Two arguments were used: first, it prevents the restoration of democracy, second, it does not represent Poland.
Maybe the president doesn’t want to reveal his weakness? That sometimes makes political sense. There is also a second line of thought on the right: that it would be reasonable for him to stand firmly behind PiS, even at the cost of losing image.
I believe that both versions of manifesting powerlessness are terrible. The problem is that the president has to win something from Tusk. How – whether in the way of the fox or in the way of the lion, it seems a matter of indifference. As long as it has some effect. For now the game has no effect.
Will the authorities also attack private media?
An indication of this is the list of 52 undesirable organizations sent by the Ministry of Culture. It contains 52 organizations, mainly Catholic and ecclesiastical, but there are also “Sieci”, “Do Rzeczy” and Telewizja Republika. It’s a test of how far they can go. No decision has yet been made on this matter, but rather we can expect various forms of intimidation and a frontal attack – and I emphasize that for now – there will probably be nothing like that.
Source: wPolityce