- – Thanks to the debates, we can see how candidates deal with interactions: how they can behave, what their presence, their attitude – says Dr. Grzegorzewski. The medical expert remembers that as early as 2015 he pointed out, as he recalls, that Andrzej Duda's "throat chin"
- Will the ongoing period of debates affect the results we will learn from the first circular of elections? “The accident of Karol Nawrocki, who stated in the debate “Super Express” that he had only 1 apartment, which then began to be verified by Onetu journalists”, says Dr Grzegorzewski
- – The debates surely changed Sławomir Mentzen's position, to the detriment, due to the fact that he is weak in debates and in interactions at all," he adds.
- – A good shot was the debate of the “Super Express” in which candidates asked themselves questions and entered bilateral shorts directly," the expert said. According to the medical examiner, specified a debate does not indicate the collapse of journalism
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This year's election run abounds in candidates' debates. 3 specified clashes were already organised by tv Republic: ‘plener’ on the marketplace in Konskie – and 2 in the studio: among others Last Friday. She was in Horses, too. debate in the sports hall there, in which the staff of Rafał Trzaskowski was initially only waiting for Karol Nawrocki, however, the majority of the competitors of both favourites besides joined. So far all candidates have gathered debate on Super Express – entirely based on the candidates' “fights” – but the work to present a full cape has a TVP, which planned its debate for the coming Monday.
The first horse model of 2005
Dr. Krzysztof Grzegorzewski from the Department of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Łódź did not anticipate specified an abundance of debates. Although a mediologist recalls that during the October 2005 presidential election, televisions – especially TVN – rather frequently confronted each another especially at the time favourites: Lech Kaczyński and Donald Tusk.
Tomasz Gzell / PAPLech Kaczyński and Donald Tusk during a debate at TVN studio (20 October 2005)
Furthermore, as Dr. Grzegorzewski recalls, 2005 was a peculiar one: only a period before the presidential election the parliamentary settlement was decided, and part of the run “for the Prime Minister” was a September tv debate, organized in the open air.
– I remember that in that debate and for TVP Kamil Durczok co-starred it, among others Jarosław Kaczyński, Jan Maria Rokita and Marek Borowski. A The editor of Gawryluk shouted at the audience to calm down due to the fact that people there kept whistling and cursing politicians – says Dr. Grzegorzewski. And it turns out two decades later a akin “number” is done by tv Republika in Konski. Of course, to hit the planned event of Trzaskovsky Staff in the local hall for the same evening.
Marian Zubrzycki / PAP"Plenerowa" tv debate Republic on the marketplace of the town of Końskie (11 April 2025)
What did the debates give us?
According to Dr. Grzegorzewski, that's what campaign clashes in Horses, although full of curiosities – including the “speak and roar”, as the media expert says, on the marketplace in this city – “They made” the interest of Poles in debates. Now we want to know who's coming, who's not coming, and above all, how they're going to present themselves.
– Through debates, we see how candidates deal with interactions: how they can behave, their appearance, their attitude. And we can immediately translate this into the possible behaviour of this man as president. – this is Dr. Grzegorzewski. The medical expert remembers that as early as in the 2015 campaign, he pointed out, as he recalls, that Andrzej Duda's "throat chin" was being ripped off. And another behaviors, indicating a fondness for this candidate's pathos, not only in debates but besides during rallies.
– And in fact, they were the beginnings of later sedition and megalomania. – says Dr. Grzegorzewski.
Ireneusz Sobieszczuk / PAPDebate in Andrzej Duda's first presidential campaign. Future president at TVP studio (5 May 2015)
Will the ongoing debate period affect the results, which we will meet after the first circular – May 18?
– No uncertainty The accident of Karol Nawrocki, who stated in the debate “Super Express” that he had only 1 apartment, is important, which then began to be verified by Onetu journalists – says Dr. Grzegorzewski, referring to The affair with Mr Jerzy's studio from Gdańsk, taken over by Nawrocki. Dr. Grzegorzewski agrees with prof. Antoni Dudek's forecast, which states that this scandal may cost Nawrocki "some three-five percent" of his support. Although, according to the medical expert, 3 percent.
– I'm sure. The debates changed Sławomir Mentzen's position, to the detriment, due to the fact that he is simply weak in debates and interaction at all – says Dr. Grzegorzewski.
The medical expert besides notes the return to the political stage, after many years, by Joanna Senyszyn, whom the debate has now allowed. – And besides in the Z generation, which began to represent her for example as an emperor in the "Star Wars" style. Although its charm will not translate into support higher than the trace 2% – Dr. Grzegorzewski forecasts. A akin consequence is foreseen for Krzysztof Stanowski, who, according to a mediologist, performs the accepted function of jester, although he most likely embodies himself in it, "to stimulate his own business".
Wojciech Olkuśnik / East NewsPresidential debate at the tv studio Super Express (28 April 2025)
Dr. Grzegorzewski adds that The reason for the debate period is to start a discussion about the reliability of the system, which confirmed the accuracy of the collection of 100,000 signatures – essential for registration as a presidential candidate – by individual specified as Maciej Maciak, an openly pro-Russian candidate, acknowledging admiration for Vladimir Putin (Maciak did this in the debate “Super Express”).
– Maciak, a man completely unknown, abruptly wins 100,000 signatures. It's beautiful amazing. And it was the debate that betrayed him, exposed him. Who is this man? – Dr. Grzegorzewski thinks. I don't think it's an influence agent, or individual like that, due to the fact that an agent requires minimum intelligence. It is alternatively a local native, with views rather powerfully "throated", but it was in the debate that he revealed these views.
Journalists as timers?
Since already at the beginning of the talks with Onet Dr. Grzegorzewski pointed out the first debate of the Republic's tv in Koński as full of "jazgot and screaming", which he puts on the other pole: as the best?
– A good shot was the debate of the “Super Express” in which candidates asked themselves questions and entered into direct bilateral short circuit – says Dr. Grzegorzewski. The medical expert powerfully disagrees with Magdalena Rigamonti from Onetu's editorial board that journalists who were expected to be conducting this debate became only “timers” and alternatively “could have been just as well a hostess” (Rigamonti's opinion invited to 1 of the TVP's programs).
– I value editor Rigamonti, but the debate “Super Express” does not show the collapse of journalism”, says Dr. Grzegorzewski. "The debate is simply a tv genre that always brings journalists only to moderators. After all, even erstwhile they ask questions, these are questions agreed with the staff.
The medical expert puts the thesis that "pre-election debate is not a journalistic species". “In this format, journalists are expected to be able to moderate, or to keep order, erstwhile individual clearly violates the principles of public debate, for example, he starts to be vulgar, but journalists should appear in another fields,” says Dr. Grzegorzewski. – Journalists run their publicist programs, interviews, writing columnaries. They have quite a few their species, in which they “do not put their feet.”
