“The Shortness of Friendship” by Tusk and Trzaskowski

In search of a way to win the presidential election, the Law and Justice chose the function of full opposition. This totality – which the PiS erstwhile christened its political opponents, and present it has identified itself with this concept – has a caricature dimension and has no effect at the moment, due to the fact that in the polls support Karol Nawrocki He didn't even get close. Rafał Trzaskowski.

Marketing from a pirate ship

The PiS and the propagandists of this organization are trying to tell Poles that they are governed by the Belarusian government (which is offensive to Andrzej Poczoput, a actual prisoner of a actual dictatorship), who is simply a government of interrogations, trial decisions and his own character even murders or brings death to political opponents (Barbara Skrzypek or the father of Hungarian asylumman Marcin Romanowski became entities of this ceremony narrative). And this is expected to meet in the future with a settlement in, as the president of the Law and Justice Office says, the "Norymber system".

Nobody, but the toughest electorate, takes these stories seriously. Like no 1 but the toughest electorate, he does not believe that Richard Cybie, who, as a consequence of dementia, has no contact with reality, “the Belarusian regime” specially suspended the prison sentence. Nor that cyber attack on Citizens Platform computers is simply a secret plan Donald Tusk For election fraud.

However, PiS politicians – alongside anti-German themes – usage specified rhetorical figures in media speeches, and opposition-friendly media perpetuate the horror. Even the faults or faults of power, which would otherwise be severely criticized, are immersed in the soup of exaggerated absurdities. possibly this is the spell of post-politics that the real debate is replaced by political marketing, which looks like it was invented on a pirate ship. This does not change the fact that all proportions have long been launched into space.

Deputy Donald Tusk?

Against the background of these failures, the staff members of Karol Nawrocki invented to describe the presidential elections as a referendum on the rejection of Donald Tusk's rule. But this plan may fail. Not only due to the fact that for supporters of the current coalition – if this subject is included in the run – elections can become a way of yet saying goodbye to the eight-year regulation of the Law and Justice, or an extension of the October 2023 vote.

But besides due to the fact that Rafał Trzaskowski and his surroundings are sending signals present that after the presidential elections in the Civic Coalition, the political alternate to Donald Tusk's power may begin to strengthen, and possibly even a fresh hand that will change the political scenery on the ruling side. The current president of Warsaw, who has already prepared to take over the Platform once, does not gotta believe – as many politicians and supporters of this formation – that the Prime Minister is simply a politician that cannot be replaced.

“My colleagues, Marcin Kierwiński and Boris Budka, have arranged with Donald behind my back... I'm inactive talking about him and Boris. I'm talking about him. But then I was convinced that they wanted me to be the president of the party. I was loyal to them, and it turned out that they bet on Donald," says Rafał Trzaskowski.

"My colleagues have made a different decision"

He adds: “We had conversations, and they seemed to support me. I needed time due to the fact that before taking over the leadership in the organization I wanted to make certain that the Platform could be expanded and strengthened. I do not want to justify or defend them, just my colleagues made a different decision – with my large surprise, I will admit."

This is not only anecdote, but above all the premise that as easy as the PiS wanted, it is impossible to glue Rafał Trzaskowski and Donald Tusk together. And that the notion of "a harsh friendship", which made a career in the times of Alexander Kwasniewski and Leszek Miller, can return, if the president of Warsaw wins the election. And if it actually becomes an effective patron of the Platform itself.

Przemysław Szubartowicz