The actual Senacki Pact, which I propose to call Citizen, implements an crucial request for me to actually participate in the electoral process of citizens treated on a subject alternatively than just as a disciplined army that supports "its own", regardless of who they are. However, this appeal is made among people for whom specified demands are not necessarily applicable or sometimes even abroad to them, who respect them as inappropriate dreamers and are convinced that specified "dreams" are harmful to victory. Without entering into a discussion with specified a "realism", I propose the strategical nonsubjective of the Citizen's legislature Pact – in the hope that although he can bring an agreement.
The strategical goal is to make a situation like after the first circular of single-mandate elections – erstwhile 1 candidate or candidate of opposition stands in front of the PiS candidate. It's about strong, like the strongest guarantees that no 1 else will compete. In 2019, there were 80 specified people throughout Poland, and it was they who determined the result. In 58 districts where anyone else competed alongside the candidates of the “Pact”, the candidates of the “Pact” lost almost 18% of the vote of the voters of the 3 opposition parties in the parliamentary vote. In 40 districts where the “pact” faced the Law and Justice in a direct confrontation “one-on-one”, opposition candidates gained a strong bonus – over 6% of the votes more than 3 opposition parties combined. That's the scale of the challenge. The pact of all backgrounds and aspiring candidates and the elimination of the dispersal of support in the "second round" of elections translates into several, in any cases more than 20 percent of the increase in the result.
This increase will be crucial in the legislature vote. Instead, it would be priceless in a parliamentary strategy – if we could postpone the model developed here in a way that builds effective letters in elections to the Sejm. I appeal to the Citizen's legislature Pact to start reasoning about elections – and Poland after them, due to the fact that I myself cannot quit these dreams and I know that there are others among the addressees of the appeal.
The actual pact must not be limited to 4 opposition parties – the participation of the self-government agreement with “YAK! For Poland" is an crucial step in the right direction, but it is not enough. We know – we request to know – that others will appear. That the effect would be the same, and could be worse than in 2019, erstwhile at least 10 legislature tickets were given to the Law and Justice despite the advantage of support in the districts.
In each of the 100 constituency to the Senate, the legislature Pact must be open to all who want to run outside the Law and Justice. You can't dress up between them, assessing their credibility, their future loyalty, their perfect identity. We must be able to accept people who are exotic or ideologically disheartening. What must prejudge and what is adequate is the consent of these people to submit to a verdict indicating the winner of the “first round” carried out in accordance with the rules agreed between the parties and accepted by each of them. This is not a political alliance, it's like the first circular of elections between the environment and people who agree that the Law and Justice are threatening democracy and the election itself.
It is an open group of leaders who decide who fits the democratic pact and who does not – the voters and the election process decide. The Citizen's legislature Pact must be politically strong adequate for anyone who does not want to participate in it or to break out and run separately, to be sentenced not only to failure, but to complete marginalization and a consequence within the percent of votes. That can be done. This will give the Law and Justice a triumph in the vast majority of constituency. This will besides make the basis for electoral parliamentary agreements, which are, of course, much more crucial and incomparably more difficult.
Without the participation of 4 parties, this will not work, but they are not the ones I am appealing to this time. I have done this with the citizens of Poland many times in fresh years and during respective inactive lost elections. I know the organization staff will ignore the appeals, as they have always done with incredible arrogance. So I address this appeal to those who will be able to sit with parties for hard talks about the actual legislature pact. You gotta start with these conversations to do the same in the constituency immediately.
- I so appeal to those who, like me, competed in the 2019 election outside the then "Senatic Pact" and (or) intend to run this year. So, for example, to Wojciech Kinasiewicz, Monika Jaruzelska and Adam Bodnar in Warsaw, Adam Mazguła in Opole (unless he lost interest in an independent political initiative after joining the PO), Krzysztof Berezowski in Koszalin, Przemysław Gierada and others in Kielce and many another specified people. Among another things, I was moving for the table of negotiations present to bring the 15% of the support that I received at the time. There are those who can put more than 30% on the same table. It would be a purely strategical madness to ignore this offer. Let's introduce her hard.
- I besides appeal to independent senators – Krzysztof Kwiatkowski and Wadi Tyszkiewicz.
- Also to those Senators, who – specified as Bogdan Zdrojewski, Bogdan Klich, Gabriel Morawska-Stanecka, Marek Borowski, Michał Kamiński – would be able to win a ticket themselves, besides without organization recommendations. Along with the character of Adam Bodnar's format and today's independent senators could be game-changers in relations with organization politics. Each of these people, taking the lead with the support of the election committee, would force parties to decide not to compete – and this is more than that: it is yet a partnership conversation.
- Finally, I appeal to those who could and should play a key function in the process of debates and public hearings, as question writers and answer reviewers. I know that the position of these people excludes direct political commitment, but this is about the quality of public debate, and this is about cross-party impartiality. I so appeal, among others, to Prof. Ewa Łętowska, although I know that he has consistently respected the position of a retired justice – and to another prominent persons whose voice is crucial in the debate on the judiciary and the regulation of law. Prof. Jerzy Hausner, experts and representatives of business environments, due to the fact that an expert look requires a strategical debate not only about macro-economics, but besides about social policy, insurance, pension system. To Prof. Łukasz Turski and another people who know the complexity of the problem of energy transformation. For environmental and climate movements, due to the fact that energy transformation – like many another areas – requires a social agreement. Agnieszka Holland, Beata Chmiel and the full community of Culture Citizens, due to the fact that the Pact for Culture is highly crucial – in addition to everything else, besides for education, due to which among the members of the Citizens' Committee of the legislature Pact should be, for example, Dorod Lobod and many others active in reasoning about education reform. To Marty Lempart and Prof. Magdalena Wednesday, due to the fact that women's rights must be 1 of the first issues at the centre of Polish politics, and each subsequent "compromise" concluded without their participation will again be a blow to democracy and the social bomb blowing the foundations of the state. To Cuba Karysia and CODE, due to the fact that without them, it would be impossible to talk about future Polish democracy.
Let us make a committee for the Civic legislature Pact – let us effort persuasion and force to get 4 parties to participate in a sensible game for Poland, not in a game between themselves. Let us besides resolve this individual problem, on which interparty negotiations are seemingly stopping today. If we construct the “first circular of elections”, any number of names can be placed on the table in each district. It is crucial that each of these individuals agree to jointly developed rules for the selection of 1 candidacy for the appropriate elections. Let's do it in Warsaw, Tricity, Poznań and another places where winning the opposition is safe and where we can simply choose the best people. Let's besides do this in Kielce, where the stake is higher – we can win where we lose on our own request for years. “The legislature Pact” will be a fiction until it is included in each of the 100 districts and until it is open to all.
