I have already written that I do not believe that the forthcoming parliamentary elections will change something crucial in the interior and external position of the current form of Polish statehood.
I did not believe and I do not believe that Polish national interest will be seen in the run and that he will be given the right rank. 4 days before the election, my sad predictions were confirmed. However, I do not believe that this makes this election insignificant. In a sense, they can be the most crucial for Poland in the 21st century. The most crucial thing is not that Poland can gain anything extraordinary in any political, economical or social dimension. These elections for individual reasoning about Polish problems, like me, will be the next election of the lesser evil. The difference is, however, that this evil is as large as never before.
I believe that this evil in its top size emerges from the further regulation of the Law and Justice. I do not know the field of public life, which the regulation of the Law and Justice would not spoil to an unprecedented extent. If Poland is not an independent state – and I think so – then further PiS governments can only deepen this state. In this dimension, for example, I consider the Citizens' Platform little destructive, for example, due to the fact that it did not destruct and alternatively does not destruct any institution on which the functioning of the state depends. The question is if the PO would want and be able to rebuild what the PiS devastated. I have any doubts about that.
In spite of all this, I repeat one more time that I consider it the primary nonsubjective of the upcoming elections to remove the Law and Justice organization from power and a harsh settlement for all the evil that the governments of this organization have done to all the institutions liable for the smooth functioning of the state. Without this harsh accounting, there will be no climate to rebuild the fundamental institutions of the state and reconstruct their essential social respect.
In Poland we have a tradition of building efficient institutions despite the deficiency of an independent state, which should be the natural environment of the smooth functioning of specified institutions. 1 of the most crucial specified institutions is the self-government, and its systemic form and functioning were undoubtedly 1 of the biggest successes of the III Polish Republic. The form of local government in Poland most likely requires crucial adjustments. Unfortunately, the governments of the Law and Justice have only deepened their negative directions. Could PO governments be able to fix anything here? I don't know. But I say they won't be able to break it more than they did with the PiS.
I have been reasoning about who I should vote for for a long time. I played a web-based test to check my views with the programs of the individual parties participating in the upcoming elections. It turned out that in more than 90 percent of my views coincide with the slogans preached by the Confederacy. My problem, however, is that I have doubts as to whether by voting for the Confederacy I contribute to the removal of the Law and Justice organization from power. My individual experience with the Confederacy leads me to conclude that it may be the group most exposed to the coalition with the Law and Justice.
However, many professional analyses indicate that the essential condition for the removal of the Law and Justice from power is to exceed the threshold of 8 percent of the vote by the coalition “Third Road”, or PSL and Poland 2050 of Szymon Holownia. So do I have a dilemma, or do I should be faithful to perfect beliefs, or should I gotta overcome greater, greater evil? I'm certain I'll figure out what I'll write.
Andrzej Szlezak
