Presidential elections in Poland are always super important. This was the case in 2015 and 2020. But besides earlier. In 2005 or 1995. After all, this is not just the election of a symbolic head of state, whose constitutional function is exhausted by "guarding the chandelier". In fact, we ourselves do not truly know what the scope of presidential power is. Each president reads it anew in each fresh context. This was the case during the PiS government, erstwhile president Andrzej Duda respective times restrained the inflated appetites of his own political camp. This has been the case since 2023, since the same president vetoed respective key bills of the smiling government. For example, a fewer days ago, the bill on reducing wellness insurance contributions. And yet the presidency besides has large possible to initiate circumstantial policies. This was the case after 2015 with the simplification of the retirement age, which without Andrzej Duda could have gotten lost in factional games and government calculations.
