Be like Donald... Speech by the fresh president

For years I have been saying that Polish politics are Germanizing – an expanding fragmentation of parties and, as in Germany, 2 fighting lefts. It is becoming Ukrainian – the increasing influence of oligarchs and tv showman targeting the presidency. But looking at Wednesday's crowd, it's hard not to announcement that we're the fastest Americans. The red hats "Nawrocks 2025", illusionally akin to those of Trump, were everywhere. They became a compulsory part of electoral equipment. Even Nawrocki himself – like Trump – wore a long red tie, and his wife, Marta, a blue suit identical to the 1 in which Melania Trump stood alongside her husband on the day of the inauguration.

Everyone who has always been to the Sejm building knows how tiny the building is designed by Bohdan Pniewski. Narrow corridors, tiny rooms and a gathering area were formed in an era erstwhile no 1 predicted tv staffs and hundreds of press conferences. On the day of the swearing-in, erstwhile ambassadors, generals and clergymen are invited, it becomes as tight as a carriage during rush hour. The Marshal's defender with the police and the SOP blocked further entrances, allowing only people on the list.

PiS supporters could not realize it. They wanted to get as close to the fresh idol as possible. You don't want to let us through on intent so you can't see how many of us there are on TV! Tusk told you! – 1 of the men shouted to a policeman explaining the reasons for closing the street. I didn't wait for the end of this exchange. I started – according to the instructions – the media entrance.

Sour Homeowners' Mines

The fresh president was to welcome the parliamentary hosts Simon Holovnia and Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. They were standing on the stairs erstwhile the column of cars was inactive far away. Kidawa – as always blameless, but in her grin it was hard to read anything. Hołównia – on the contrary. The face covered with makeup did not express sadness, but something denser, harder to name. This day – and, let us not deceive ourselves, any humiliation he experienced, welcoming Karol Nawrocki as the fresh head of state – was his last large performance as a marshal. In a moment, he'll hand over the staff to Vladimir Black and sit in front, no privileges, no titles. Private MP, who inactive late wanted to be president.

The ceremony of swearing in to the Polish head of state lacks sacrum. It is strange, considering how much Poles like to read about the British monarchy and its absurd rituals. Here – no sacred oils, hands, crowns or scepters. It is adequate to curse before Parliament. But that doesn't mean we don't want to see anyone else in the president. This was understood by Aleksander Kwasniewski, who posed with his wife to match a royal couple. In his kind Andrzej Duda felt it besides – just open his freshly published book “To Me” (you can read respective pages in a bookstore and put it down, truly not worth buying). By saying good-bye to us, the president does not uncover a political kitchen. He prefers banquet anecdotes. possibly this is what Poles expect.

It seems that Nawrocki chose to rock, which – as I realize it – is expected to give a sense of safety in “pre-war times”. Everything the fresh president says seems to be caricaturely tubal. I'm not certain Nawrocks, having discovered that this simple trick works on voters, began with the improvement of the run to turn up decibels and talk even more throatily, but if so, it will shortly run out of scale.

Even before the ceremony began, I heard Vladimir Czarzasty, who said that Nawrocki's presidency would “be a question mark”. If the head of the left was serious about this, then after the speech of the fresh president, he should return to the writer he spoke to and say, "Sorry, it will be an exclamation mark." It is hard for me to imagine a more written speech than the 1 that Nawrocki gave. In fact, I think I could compose them at home myself, knowing the tastes and favourite themes of Jarosław Kaczyński. Of course it could have been different. Nawrocki could have utilized this peculiar minute for a large speech that we would have remembered for years. All you had to do was go to the conclusion. To thank not only Andrzej Duda, but besides the incoming presidents Aleksandr Kwasniewski and Bronisław Komorowski. To say that they are pleased that they show continuity of power, they legitimize their presence the selection of 10 million Poles, and they did not gotta do so. They're yet retired, and they could have done something nicer at the time.

Unfortunately, it stopped being good to greet the nation and its guests. In the first sentences of Nawrocka, he emphasized that he had won in spite of the run of slander and lies, but Christianly he would forgive those who committed them. akin words were made during the election evening on 1 June, which makes me not believe in any specified assurances about the mercy of a good master. Like in household fights, if individual wants to let go of a subject, they just do it, and they don't repeat all day that they forgave and they don't want to talk about it anymore.

It got comic erstwhile the fresh president mentioned the law of government. Of course, he did not mean a dispute about swearing in judges or neo-KRS, but I seriously uncertainty whether he always tried to realize the complexities of those cases. No, at this point, the author of the speech – whoever he is – referred to the national prosecutor, whom Zbigniew Ziobro tried to make "impossible" moments before losing his power in 2023.

Nawrocki's announcements about Polish reading at the Polish school seemed to be dangerous. In general, the president abused this adjective, which makes me wonder what he truly meant. due to the fact that in Polish school, books of Polish authors are read, right? Unless we think not all Pole is simply a Pole. possibly there is simply a second nation of “traitors” or Polish-speaking people next to the Polish nation – then the division into Polish and non-Polish books would be completely different. Sienkiewicz yes, Tokarczuk no.

“But Batyra will not be included in the list of readings”, Katarzyna Lubnauer joked, with whom I spoke immediately after the inauguration, and stressed that the president has no prerogatives in terms of influence on education. She besides added that it is worrying how frequently Nawrocki speaks of himself in a 3rd individual as a singular number. – It would be more disturbing if he spoke of himself in the 3rd individual plural – I added with a smile.

New constitution?

The most interesting thing about the full speech seemed to me a constitutional theme. Nawrocki announced that the fresh basic law would be ready in 2030. Why not in 2027, erstwhile the Law and Justice will have the chance to return to power? Will writing a book of the size of the brochure take 5 years for the author of “The Confessions of Nikosi from beyond the grave”? And the second point is why Jarosław Kaczyński should even let it. Yes, it is in the interests of the head of state to increase his powers – in the times of the First Republic he tried to do so practically everyone elected by the noble king, and late Andrzej Duda, who in 2017 proposed a referendum on the Constitution, but the president of the Law and Justice organization did not want to hear about it at all. Because, and why would he share his power with individual he thinks is simply a flirt?

I listened to speeches in the area of Ignacy Daszyński. The image of the first Prime Minister of the Second Republic hung on the wall and seemed to be looking at Nawrock speaking on the tv screen. Daszyński has a clenched fist in the painting, there are scattered papers in front of him. He's seen a lot in his life. As he himself was on his way to curse in to president Narutovich, he was assaulted by right-wing fighters, from whom he took refuge in the gate. The closed lips propose that the image could have been painted about in those peculiar moments for Poland.

I've been talking to politicians for a while. Alexandra Leo told me that the speech would remember as confrontational and dividing, and that Nawrocki did not take the chance to show up on another side. The writers immediately ran to their constituents waiting for them at the gate of the Sejm. Adam Bielan, whom I married from the Sejm, besides refused to speak.

The crowd saw him get into ecstasy. - We love you! EVERYTHING IN LOVE! – I heard. The hands were stretched out like a saint, the woman stood on her fingers to even contact the white baldness. But by God, it's only Bielan, it's not even Błaszczak, let alone Kaczynski. I was looking around to see if individual would give a child's MP a kiss like the Pope.

– And this is my friend from Italy. He came to us on purpose. It's from Giorgia Meloni," said the MP, showing the guy who stood in front of me, and a crowd of hands fell on Italy. – Bondziorno, bondziorno! – the writers shouted. It was so tight, I couldn't get out of there anymore. That's why I apologize to everyone who took pictures of me, taking a image with Bielan. I hope this does not spoil your souvenir of this peculiar day, which you will remember for a long time