On Friday evening, Paweł Kasprzak and Marcin Skubiszewski met with residents of Wrocław. It was another story as part of their tour of the country where they talk about universal primary and election observatory
Over 90 people came to the office of the Tratwa Association in a depot close Legnicka. As in erstwhile meetings in the country, Paweł Kasprzak besides promoted the thought of the primaries of all democratic forces as a way to win the Law and Justice in the autumn local elections. “Today we know that behind this power, if not the majority, is at least a dangerously large social element. So large that he can win any election. This is the reality we must face," said Paweł Kasprzak.
He stressed that we were suffering from a deep crisis of democracy. This is, above all, a crisis of credibility. “No 1 believes in the promises made in the run by the parties,” he explained. – In the opinion of Polish voters, unfortunately, the only organization that keeps promises is the Law and Justice, not the Civic or Modern Platform.
02.02.2018 Wroclaw . gathering of Polish Citizens .
photo. Mieczyslaw Michalak / paper Agency
According to Paul Kasprzak, there is now no better proposal than the universal primaries in forming a coalition against the Law and Justice. due to the fact that they will in a grassroots and democratic way elect candidates for councillors, mayors, or city presidents. – We request primaries due to the fact that we believe that pluralism is the strength of a common list of democratic fronts. We issue specified a list against the browning list of Law and Justice," Kasprzak said. And he assured: "We are a civilian movement that has been going out on the street for 2 years to defend the Constitution, implement the democratic rule enshrined in the Constitution and absolutely not trade them.
Marcin Skubiszewski, on the another hand, told about his experiences Electoral Observatory, on media monitoring or electoral campaign, indicated the threats we could face at the upcoming local elections.
There were questions about the scale of the primaries, interest in the task in the municipalities, method solutions. It was proposed to usage a simpler language in communication with voters. Alexander Sikora of Progressive Poland even suggested that it was a waste of energy for specified a task and proposed to establish a fresh party. However, the gathering did not take up this discussion.
Kasprak and Skubiszewski were accompanied by Paweł Kociba-Żabski (Citizens of Poland). – PiS has a immense support, it definitely leads in polls, but in reality the majority of Poles disagree with its policy. Our task is to get them to go to elections," he stressed.
See reports from the meeting:
About the gathering at Electoral.pl and The Wrocław Gazet.
