The engagement of the judiciary in favour of liberal-left politicians and the imposition of their ideological agenda on society is nothing new. However, the cancellation of the presidential election results in Romania is simply a precedent. As the political scenes in subsequent western countries proceed to spread, measures are besides being taken to halt the power of the protesting forces of the demoliberal establishment from reaching power.
Romania – a field of large experiment?
Imagine a situation where Prime Minister Viktor Orban is 1 step distant from losing his power. Sensationally, a charismatic competitor, Mr. Gyorgyu, appeared to him, who convinced the Hungarians that it was time for a change and gained the highest support in the election. However, the Constitutional Court decided to cancel the consequence post factumHe manages the re-election and excludes Mr. Gyorgyu from it. Members of the General Court were appointed by the politicians of the Orban organization and its president is simply a erstwhile associate of the ruling organization in the past. What would be the reaction of the large media, the European Commission, the UN, the governments of another European countries? I don't think there's any request to convince anyone about how gigantic outrage we'd be dealing with. "Dictatorship", "Tyrania", "crime against democracy", "Disdain to the will of the people", "It is essential to impose sanctions on the Orban regime" could be comparatively mild press titles.
However, this was the case in the neighbouring country to Hungary and Romania. It is worth remembering that Nicolae Ceaușescu's spectacular execution in 1989 was not a triumph of anti-communism, but a consequence of interior games in the power apparatus. Communist politicians, services, and troops have effectively disposed of a long-standing leader to keep governments under fresh conditions. Post-communists ruled or co-ruled Romania for most of the past 35 years and are besides in power present as the Social Democratic organization (PSD) – the equivalent of the Polish SLD. In addition, PSD has been in a large coalition with PNL since 2021 – the second largest party, formerly its conventional rival. Many Romanians wanted to show the mediate finger of their political class and of this kind of arrangement. In the last fewer years, the Romanian right has besides been powerfully strengthened in the government.
First, in October, the Constitutional Court excluded from the presidential election the Euro-deposed Diana Șoșoacă from the SOS organization Romania, which gained popularity during the COVID pandemic on criticism of sanitary restrictions and vaccines, and later besides the US, Israel and Ukraine. The polls supported 10-13%. It is as if Grzegorz Braun – Braun and Șoșoacă were excluded from the election in Poland, sitting virtually in neighboring places. At the time, she said that "Americans, Jews and the European Union began to falsify elections before they began".
Then on November 24 I circular unexpectedly won the “anti-system” independent candidate Calin Georgescu. To the second circular together with him passed liberal Elena Lasconi, who by barely 0.03 percent points overtaken the incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolac from PSD. The ruling coalition had no 1 in the second round, which again showed social emotion. It was a real sensation – the post-communist candidate did not qualify for the 2nd circular for the first time after 1989! Initially, the Constitutional Court ruled on the validity of the elections. On 1 December, parliamentary elections were held, which showed the growth of the right. As of 2016, no force for law from the political-cultural mainstream has entered the Romanian parliament. In 2020, 9% gained a recently established, national-Christian AUR, taking on banners, among others, the defence of a conventional family. AUR now ranked second with 18% of the votes, and the threshold was besides exceeded by SOS Romania mentioned Diana Șoșoaki and supporting Georgescu POT, besides referring to Christianity. In total, over 32% of the votes were cast on these 3 right-wing parties. No wonder the establishment felt threatened. These results, like the polls, suggested Georgesc's triumph in the second round.
The least apolitical court possible
In this situation, the Constitutional Court made the return 180 degrees. 2 days before the second round, in which Romanians surviving abroad had already begun voting, the court withdrew from its own decision and cancelled the results of the presidential election. Paradoxically, he challenged the rule that his judgments were final. Elections are expected to be repeated at the beginning of next year and it is very possible that this time the court will not let Georgescu to take off, as previously Șoșoace.
The president of the Constitutional Court, which he made specified a controversial decision, is Marian Enache, who is simply a politician. Before 1989, president Enache belonged to the Communist organization of Romania and was later associated with subsequent post-communist parties, including the presently ruling PSD. He was a associate of the 3 word and besides served in Parliament erstwhile the legislature elected him as a associate of the Constitutional Court in 2016. It was only then that Enache formally gave the organization ID and began to play the function of an “independent lawyer”. All members of the Tribunal are pointed out by politicians – 1 3rd by the Chamber of Deputies, legislature and President. The cancellation of the election consequence was most likely due to interior competitions in the liberal-left camp. Now the second chance to win will be given to Prime Minister Ciolacu, the head of post-communists who minimally lost entry to the II round. It is no wonder that Elena Lasconi, who has overtaken the Prime Minister by 0.03 percent points, besides criticised the Constitutional Court's "deployment of democracy".
Maybe if Rafał Trzaskowski clearly wins the first circular of the May presidential elections, then the Constitutional Tribunal will cancel the results, as the judges Stanisław Piotrowicz and Krystyna Pawłowicz will say? Trzaskowski could besides be charged with financial relations with abroad countries – finally, the events he organised (Campus Poland) were generously supported by the budget of the national Republic of Germany through German organization foundations.
But the jokes aside. It is worth remembering that we are talking about a 20-million-dollar European country belonging to the EU and NATO, the largest country in Poland in our region, alternatively than any distant bantostan. The Romanian precedent can be utilized in another countries in the name of stopping “populism” and “the utmost right”. Georgescu is no uncertainty a unusual character, and his run did not finance itself, although he claims he did not spend anything on her and created himself. It's possible that Russia is behind him or any kind of business group. possibly we will find out more soon.
Real relationships with Moscow or their absence are secondary – we know that mainstream media and politicians have no inhibitions in accusing any opponents of pro-Russianism. Minister Siemoniak's message that he "will defend Poland from a akin scenario" as in Romania, smells like threatening the opposition. Donald Tusk may lead a far-reaching reset with Putin 1 day, open Polish services to cooperate with Russian and accuse Kaczyński of wanting to start a war with Russia, to present the another as the same Kaczyński as a Russian agent, and himself as a leader in the fight against Putin. In the spirit of grotesque, yet neat in its flaplology, the slogan – "either with Tusk or with Rusk". Tertium non datur.
Of course Russia has its agents and influences – and on the western right, and on the left, and in the center. Many Western rightists or Christians have a naively affirmative image of Moscow, which is simply a problem for Poland. Russian aggression in Ukraine, however, has been utilized throughout the Western planet from the beginning by demoliberal media to make narratives about Manichean clash. Liberal democracy, freedom and another "generation of human rights" on the 1 hand. On the another hand, the backward traditionalist tyranny and in general the "authority states" – as if all countries outside the demoliberous West were truly 1 camp. Michał Kamiński said, "Ukrainians die present for the right to be homosexual".
The attachment to Christianity, tradition, family, nationalism or patriotism is to be propagandaally identified with being on Putin's side and his crimes. For 80 years earlier, Hitler’s figure was likewise used. The 3rd Reich's atrocities were allegedly the eventual product of the evil "old world", on which the antidote was to be liberal democracy, various safeguards imposed by it on the will of the majority and deconstruction of oppressive traditions. Hitler's last memory is dying, so Putin is very useful present to liberals and left to refresh the same dichotomies. Constitutional justice was established in Europe after planet War II (formerly only existed in Czechoslovakia and Austria) mainly to limit the will of the majority and block the anticipation of fresh Hitlers coming to power. Today, any right-wing or serious Catholic can be considered an extremist and possible fresh Hitler or Putin's supporter, whose courts must so keep out of public life.
Trump got distant from the hatchet
The obsessive desire to identify the right hand and pro-Russianity and demonization of opponents led Tusk to even claim on various occasions that " Donald Trump's dependence on Russian services is not questionable" or that "Trump turned out to be a Russian agent and Putin's man". The current Prime Minister has cited the alleged findings of US law enforcement. There has never been specified a arrangement, but Tusk is able to say any nonsense to stick propaganda to Russia's PiS. Trump's dependence on the Russians is simply a large story that has been going on for over a decade. After his first election triumph in 2016, a immense amount of demoliberal media and politicians repeated that Trump had helped Russian services – he could not just win and deny progressive determinism. Trump's first half of his tenure went mostly to the investigation, which was conducted by peculiar Prosecutor Robert Mueller, formerly a longtime manager of the FBI. Despite detailed research, many interrogations, the transfer of thousands of papers by Trump's run and the White home and the gigantic media pressure, Mueller failed to show any Trump's dependence on Russia or coordination with Moscow.
Millions, however, were told that Trump was a dangerous criminal. After he left the White home in 2021, they tried to prosecute him further under various pretexts. Trump became the first president in U.S. past with charges and then the first convict. In total, he received respective 100 charges in various cases. many trials were a burden for him not only due to the anticipation of going to prison, but besides due to the tremendous financial and time costs.
For example, Trump was sentenced to pay US$83 million to talk to a female who accused him of rape in 1996 in 2019. He was not proven guilty, but the court found that Trump, erstwhile he said that a female was lying, violated her individual interests. At the same time, many media began to represent him as “a guilty rapist convicted by the court.” At the same time, Trump was besides ordered to pay $ 354 million in fines after being found guilty of inflating the value of his companies in fresh York City to cheat insurers. Earlier, the justice had obliged him to regularly attend subsequent meetings, which limited his ability to attend meetings with voters during the campaign. The justice is simply a associate of the Democratic organization who donated money to her and, according to Trump, "a utmost leftist".
It is worth remembering that the political commitment of the justice strategy is not limited to putting people in jail or excluding them from elections, but it can consist in financial ruin, threatening excessive charges, or taking time by dragging them through courts. This is theoretically lighter, but thanks to this more camouflaged and possibly more effective method. Trump is simply a billionaire and can afford costly lawyers, but the same tools can be utilized for anyone. If Trump hadn't won the presidential election, he could have ended up behind bars or as bankrupt.
This sad destiny met his associate Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani is known as the erstwhile mayor of fresh York City, who led a celebrated “zero tolerance” policy towards criminals, and then headed the city at the time of the 9/11 bombings. Giuliani was late sentenced to $188 million in fines for speaking to 2 of the election committee staff who he believed were active in the forgerys in Georgia State in 2020. The punishment is repeatedly higher than the assets of an 80-year-old politician. Giuliani complained last month: “Everything I have is frozen. I don't have a car. I don't have a credit card. I don't have any cash. I can't get into my bank accounts. I don't have a penny."
France will follow Romania?
We besides have a akin situation present in the second largest Western country after the US, where forces outside the establishment have a chance to come to power in the close future, in France. Marine Le Pen threatens both imprisonment and exclusion from elections and advanced financial penalties. The politician is accused of hiring Euro MPs of activists who have actually done another tasks for her or the National Front not related to the European Parliament. The Prosecutor's Office demands 5 years imprisonment for Le Pen, including 3 suspended sentences, EUR 300 000 and 5 years' failure of public office. akin penalties are besides sought by 23 another activists of its group, and for the organization itself an additional €4.3 million. Moreover, a ban on elections would begin to apply immediately without waiting for an appeal. So it's real, Le Pen couldn't run for president in April 2027.
The situation would so be absolutely unprecedented, leading the opposition leader in the polls may be excluded from the elections in the second largest country of Europe. The Le Pen organization took 33% first place in the fresh parliamentary elections, is the first force in the National Assembly (French Sejm), and she leads herself in all presidential polls, where she has between 35 and 40% of support. She would besides lose her parliamentary mandate if the Assembly were to be dissolved again this summer. A akin destiny would be met by many another leading politicians – e.g. Vice president of the Louis Aliot Party, Mayor of the 120-thousandth city of Perpignan (the largest ruled by nationalists), would besides cease to be 1 – and without appeal.
The conviction is due on March 31. Le Pen claims that she is being demanded a "political death penalty" and wants to ruin her party, and she is eliminated from public life under a trivial pretext erstwhile courts are gentle to real criminals, especially immigrants. It recalls that the procedure was initiated by the then EP president, German socialist Martin Schulz. He besides repeats that there is no way that anyone has misappropriated the money, the paid work has been done, and the dispute concerns how the organization spent funds that would have been paid to it anyway.
Rule of Law
At the same time, we see that in much more crucial matters over the years, the hair from the head did not fall to Didier Reynders – the leading politician of the demoliberal group holding power. Reynders held various honors, from which he taught populist backwards. For 20 years he was continuously Minister of Finance and then abroad Affairs of Belgium, in parallel besides serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Finally, for the last 5 years, he has been an EU Commissioner of Justice. Reynders most likely laundered large money by falsifying the results of the state lottery that he was subject to – and this is only 1 of the many scandals with his participation that came to light.
Accusations of corruption at his address had already appeared years ago, but he inactive became Commissioner at Ursula von der Leyen, and then severely attacked the erstwhile Polish government for "breaking the regulation of law". The Democratic apparatusist garnered in the defence of “justice” and “human rights” and late praised Minister Bodnar for his excellent efforts to reconstruct the regulation of law over the Vistula. We are talking about the highest authoritative of the European Union liable for justice! It is hard to have more conclusive proof that demoliberal phraseology is frequently a facade for individual and environmental interests. Only after his word of office in the European Commission had ended was the services allowed to operate on Reynders and his chief von der Leyen was already approved for another term. However, we will see if any real punishment will happen to him – for now only he was questioned and searched for his property. A clear example of the recognisable treatment of "lawfulness" is besides the pardoning of his son, a drug addict and degenerate, at the end of the presidency by Joe Biden, who had previously argued that he would not.
What about Poland?
In this broader context, we should look at the situation in our own country. Poland has been a field of another experimentation for a year – cleaning after “populists” without worrying about the law, which Prime Minister Tusk gratefully called a fighting democracy. It besides aims to make artificial problems involving emotionally public opinion. While after 2007, Tusk focused on “warm water in the tap” and promised material prosperity, now the games of “calculation” are much more crucial in his message than bread. He was talking about the second Ireland, now the second Nuremberg. The removal of the PiS subsidy may be another example of the expression of the rules of political competition. Especially as the PKW recognized the decision of the ultimate Court Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs on another parties, but not in the case of the Law and Justice, so it is hard to talk about anything another than the demonstration primacy of politics over the law.
At the same time, we see that Tusk and Bodnar's waltz is not just about the PiS (which would be surrounded by people worthy of reckoning), but about the right as such. Hence the attack on the March of independency and police knocking at six o'clock in the morning at the home of assistant Krzysztof Bosak under the grotesque pretext of ugly words that any anonymous associate of the March said six years ago. Additionally, there is simply a cultural revolution imposed on Poles. Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz argued in 2018 that the strategical negligence of Tusk's first regulation was the absence of attacks on the Church and the top-down dechristianization of Poland, which would prevent any non-liberal right from gaining power. Now they want to avoid that mistake. Hence, actions specified as “guidelines” allowing the execution of unborn children even in the 9th period of pregnancy, projects for indoctrination of young Poles as part of compulsory “health education” and “citizen education” or the thought of punishing “hate speech”.
Liberal democracy is becoming little democratic
It should not be imagined that there are any limits to imposing ideology on society through the judiciary. In 2017, the Constitutional Court in Taiwan ordered the introduction of "gay marriages" in the name of equality between citizens. Local Christians have held a referendum on this issue. As many as 72.5% of Taiwanese people voted to keep matrimony as a union of 1 female and 1 man at a advanced turnout of 56%. However, the court completely ignored the clear will of the majority and led to the introduction of homomaritalism. The Western demoliberal media then celebrated the fact that Taiwan became “the first country in Asia with marital equality”.
The only boundary of the revolution is real social and political resistance. We will besides find examples of success. American Christians managed to redouble the ultimate Court and throw the “constitutional right to abortion” into the waste of past after 50 years of patient, consistent struggle. However, fresh events in the US, France, Poland and Romania clearly show the tightening of the course of liberal democracy and the gradual simplification of the democratic component within it. For example, more examples could be found in the above mentioned and another countries, specified as the possible illegalisation of AfD in Germany. In the UK, on the another hand, we late had a wave of advanced and post-day public prison sentences for anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic demonstrators, and even for net users expressing their opinions on social media.
On the 1 hand, it is crucial to anticipate more frequent usage of force and usage of justice to fight political opponents. There is no freedom for the enemies of freedom! On the another hand, however, this shows any weakness alternatively than the power of a demoliberous oligarchy. Its representatives have been dominant politically, financially and culturally in Europe and the US for decades. If they believed that they could stay in power as standard – by providing material comfort to citizens, promoting carefree consumption and media manipulation – they would not have gone for specified measures. Clearly, they feel truly threatened and desperate. They see that they are increasingly struggling to satisfy the needs of Western societies and to give people an simple sense of stableness and security. The Democratic social contract is wobbly. They may besides fear losing their monopoly on information transmission along with the improvement of alternate media. There are less and less Western countries where the political and financial situation is unchangeable and status quo would not be contested.
This means the intellectual defeat of progressive liberalism, which was to win on the "free marketplace of ideas" and be a natural, mark state of humanity, and now increasingly must hotel to force measures. In any case, liberal democracy is increasingly to be treated as a "people's democracy" – as a mouthpiece serving a propaganda interest group. "United Camp of Polish Democracy", "Democratic Courts", "Fighting for Democracy", "Fighting planet Fascism and Polish Response" – all of these are formulas utilized abundantly by communist propaganda in the 1940s and 1950s. Communism was besides to prevail due to its nonsubjective laws of history, and ended with bare violence. As Prof. Patrick Deneen wrote – liberalism failed due to the fact that it was realized and did not give people happiness.
More and more people see that the king is naked, insecure and desperate. This evidently means that he is dangerous and all the more prone to violence, which should not be underestimated. Under these circumstances, apart from the very conflict for endurance and the ability to preach The truths in the public space our main task is to strive to christianize a healthy reflex of rejection status quo. opposition to the evil and vanity of this planet must be based on God to be truer, greater, and more effective than simple negation.
Casper Kita
