Can Rafał Trzaskowski manage Karol Nawrock? Source: Silar/wikimedia commons/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Aike 4.0 InternationalBehind us and the presidential election tour. Her results show that for the 5th time in this century our divided society could not identify the winner the first time. Turnout was 67.31%. What are the real consequences of these choices? In addition to deciding one more time between the candidate of the Tuska and Kaczyński camp, respective another conclusions come before the second round.
What distinguishes this year's election is the evidence number of candidates running. It is worth noting at this point that out of the happy thirteen who managed to collect the required 100,000 000 signatures, 3 candidates did not receive the same designation during the final vote. We are talking about Mark Woch, Maciej Maciak and Artur Bartoszewicz (the second even managed to collect about 250,000 signatures). The question is at this point: since the said people did not gather besides much support at the urns, how did they manage to accomplish this minute before the presidential campaign, erstwhile they were most likely even little recognizable? The unprecedented event is besides the participation of Krzysztof Stanowski – writer and founder of Channel Zero. The curious individual himself pointed out that his application was aimed at "building public awareness". In the media this fact was assessed in an ambiguous way. For any it was a kind of happening, and for others a marketing catch promoting its medium. The second undoubtedly achieved, due to the fact that thanks to the coverage of campaigns, debates and, most importantly, long talks with most of his counter-candidates, Stanowski gained not only publicity, but besides awesome ratings.
Successes and Failures
The second can be talked about endlessly, starting with the process of selecting Rafał Trzaskowski as a candidate for KO. Was it a good decision to bet on president of Warsaw for the second time? There is hope that he will not repeat the situation of his counter-candidate from the 3rd Way – Simon Holownia, whose participation this year may be the nail to the coffin. The erstwhile presenter “Mam Talent” gained a close to 14 percent score 5 years ago, placing at the last place on the podium. The holovnia was driven away, among another things, by a politician, whose name in the headlines appears the word fire extinguisher and whose own sister is ashamed – we are talking about Grzegorz Braun. His result, which for many was a negative surprise, was in any ways the effect of a silent spiral. The vast majority of his constituents did not admit that they would vote for him, and the poll pollers mistakenly estimated his support. Sławomir Mentzen achieved his individual success with a score of nearly 15%.
And how did young people vote? The candidate, who in his own opinion had the best chance to defeat Rafał Trzaskowski in the second circular – Sławomir Mentzen achieved the most support among voters in the 18-29 age bracket. Why is this man fleeing his own rallies speaking openly about the introduction of college fees and referring to rape as a “minor unpleasantness” to him in this age group? The second place in this group was Adrian Zandberg, who competed for the organization Together, this politician is the utmost other of Mentzen. Why is there specified a wide variety of voices among young people? The noticeable trend is that the po-PiS duo falls here. Only in 3rd place in this group was Rafał Trzaskowski with 12.2% of support.
You can get the impression that posts with the slogan “[the candidate's name] is the winner of the debate...” almost all organization had their broadcasts prepped before they started. And this year was especially celebrated in 5 specified meetings. Their organization and whether, as Grzegorz Schetyna stated in 2016 – "The elections win in the Horses" remains a discussion issue. However, it was undoubtedly an chance to present itself to a wider audience. The characteristic moments of these debates are, among another things, Maciak's behavior, which was incapable to withstand without interruption on a cigaret and the Holovnia and Mentzen, who, despite their request not to usage mobile devices, put posts on the old "X". Although among many the best rated during these meetings was Holovnia, who utilized his experience on television, the individual who caused the most confusion was Magdalena Biejat. She was the 1 who took the rainbow flag from Trzaskowski, which he rapidly hid after receiving it from a "citizen candidate supported by the Law and Justice". Similarly, Nawrocki's “housing scandal” was besides credited, which boasted of having only 1 place in 1 debate.
If we could sum up I tour with 1 image it would be a image illustrating Kosiniak-Kamish's mimics erstwhile he learned about the consequence of Holownia. We may have laughed at the inability of our representatives during the campaign, but are we ourselves better as citizens, since nearly 1/3 of society did not take advantage of its privilege on 18 May?
Julia ZYGMUNT
