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Comment about the Polish domestic policy |
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:: polski, :: deutsch, :: English
Photo: flickr.com: 30.06.2010 - Warszawa – Debata (Debate in Warsaw)
Bronisław Komorowski (Platforma Obywatelska, PO), Jarosław Kaczyński (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS)
Comment about the Polish domestic policy
After the announcement of the presidential election results in Poland and the letting to know that Bronislaw Komorowski is the future President of Poland, Polish newspapers annotated it as a victory of democracy. Unfortunately, it was nor democratic nor free.
At first, I have to remark that Poles elect their presidents in free, democratic elections, in opposition to the German citizens that have only an indirect influence who represents them as a president. Furthermore, the influence of the Polish President is indeed bigger than the influence of the German president. The Polish Constitution foresees sharing the executive and legislative tasks between the head of government (and his cabinet) and president (with some offices that are directly subjected to him).
It causes many conflicts between two persons from different political surroundings and don’t support each other. It ensures a good cooperation, if both parties are cooperatively enough (An example for a good cooperation: some years of the presidency of Aleksander Kwasniewski and different governments, among all post-Solidarnosc-personalities like Jerzy Buzek, example for unproductive cooperation: the presidency of Lech Kaczynski and the government of Donald Tusk).
Undemocratically at its own request
Poland seems to be a democratic, free country outwards, but it is neither democratic nor free for real, and that by request. The turnout decreases with every year. However, you can’t blame for it the weatherman, even in this year. It is rather the lack of alternatives and the attitude of the citizens that are convinced that the election won’t change anything for real. Since a couple of years we have the same politicians in the politics, only the combination and the party-names has been changing up to now.
Politicians don't keep their campaign pledge and the impossible becomes possible (like the most disputed coalition of Prawo I Sprawiedliwosc = PiS, Samoobrona and Liga Polskich Rodzin a couple of years ago).
The divided Polish society
Furthermore, there is no more one Poland, but rather at least two ‘Polands’. One part of the society supports the policy of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of PiS. He also had a great influence on the policy of his twin brother, Lech Kaczynski, former president of Poland. Then, there is another part of the society that is against Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his visions of Poland. These citizens believe that there is nearly no politician that they can support with full convincement, therefore, they vote mostly for the alternative "against Jaroslaw Kaczynski" and it is not a good solution in the long-run. Additionally, it isn't in accordance with the idea of democracy.
Restricted freedom of speech
Furthermore, every free opinion is quite restricted. For sure, Poles have no cases like the one of Anna Politovskaya, who would be killed under disputed circumstances. Still, free bloggers and their free thoughts are presented in public as far as possible at the edge of ridiculousness and with the greatest lack of seriousness, including persecution in the public life, for example while some bloggers are writing a dissertation. The editors of Scholar Online Europe that I am leading get many similar cases and we support those who want to speak freely, even if such opinion doesn't belong to the mainstream.
A good example for the authority of the mainstream was the medial condition after the air crash in Smolensk. Even if Lech Kaczynski wasn't that popular in some media like Gazeta Wyborcza, the excessive flood of compliments has been flowing for days and it went far beyond what we call realistic. I only mention the proposals to canonize Lech Kaczynski and the love-soap about the relationship between the First Lady and her husband. The voices that criticized this situation (without offending the dignity of the dead president and the person of Lech Kaczynski) were presented as aggressive insults from any mainstream side and they were treated like a state treason.
Pseudo-Celebrities of the political stage
How is Poland today? Weird... I wish that Polish politicians would have more charisma and expect more from themselves than being only pseudo-celebrities of the political stage. Among all, MEP Wojciech Olejniczak acts as an example to me and reports about his daily work via blog, Facebook and sometimes Twitter. Mostly from such messages I, a citizen, get information which efforts he brings and how he contributes to Poland and to Europe. Maybe it is no bad idea to obligate every politician, not only from Poland, to make a list of own ambitions until the end of the year and to public them. After one year, every politician could go over this list in public and report what he/she really achieved (and of course to inform us more).
Poland needs more political support in economy, but the citizens aren't really interested in it. “Everyone is doing own one stuff” and therefore the country develops. At this point, I would like to refer to :: one of opinions of jab. from our discussion’s board, because this comment is still true.
:: Discussion boad: I am a European and I am proud of it.
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