Kraków: large problem Tusk

In the referendum held on Sunday 24 May, the Krakowians managed to cancel President-in-Office Alexander MiszaIski. Voters questioned by pollers about the reason for taking part and voting in favour of the appeal (more than 97% of voters) most frequently stated the creation of the alleged clean transport region (SCT) (28%), but the remaining 72% gave another reasons.

However, it was not possible to cancel the City Council which voted this project. It is worth recalling that the very concept of SCT was introduced into Polish law in 2018 by the Law and then incorporated by Mateusz Morawiecki into the alleged milestones which he undertook to crush Poles in exchange for a common EU credit called KPO, rebuilding the country after the destructions which he himself committed during the time of the "hazardous virus pandemic". All for the PO approval with appetizers. It turned out that car drivers are inactive a crucial force in Poland. Interestingly, the SCT did not hit the drivers surviving in Krakow itself, but unlike another cities that treated it as essential evil and mocked it by limiting it to respective streets of the advanced centre, close Wawel the area of its validity was designated almost equivalent to the city's borders. This most likely active treating the SCT as a means of repairing urban finance in a terrible state.

In addition to the SCT, another causes of the current president's failure were besides pointed out: the dudery or hiring organization companions without qualifications, the creation of fresh positions in urban bureaucracy, the avalanche increase in the city's debt and importantly; at the same time with the introduction of the SCT a extremist increase in public transport ticket prices. The second was peculiarly criticized by the Left related to the Together. Miszalski besides compromised in the eyes of a more delicate to the form of a part of the Krakowians prostack behavior, which was symbolized by photographing with 8 stars on his forehead and not very sophisticated videos on the tic process.

The authorities of the Platform which ostentatically supported MiszaIski in his fight for the presidency 2 years earlier, this time with the increase in the number of signatures collected and the results of the polls toned out public support, focusing primarily on attacking Luke Gibala. At this point, we request to return to a situation that, for example, for me personally was a very crucial motive for taking part in the referendum and voting in favour of cancelling MiszaIski. It was what happened at the election in 2024. Luke Gibala competed in them for the 3rd time. Before leaving the PO and a short episode in the Palikot Movement it was consecutive years: 2013 with a score of 11.16%, 2018 – 17.14% and yet 2024 erstwhile after the departure of president Jack Majchrowski he first entered the second circular and lost to the PO candidate with a score of 48.96%. In the meantime, in 2018 he became a Councillor of Krakow and is besides presently a associate of the Krakow club for Residents. He had previously been an MP, councillor of the Sejm, moving for the Senate. He was a primary opponent of Jack Majchrowski's politics, and it seemed that after his departure he was a natural candidate for a decisive change in the way he ruled, the shattering city of fossils grown for more than 2 decades of layouts and arrangements, and the stopping of debt spirals. Even weeks before the election, the polls gave him a safe lead of 60 to 40%.

While for PO Gibala he was always enemy number one, any kind of traitor who left his own camp and struggles for a similar, progressive ecologically greening large city electorate, the right had a problem with him: on the 1 hand, an increasingly effective enemy of our enemy, but at the same time individual ideologically suspicious who was at Palikot and at PO. On the 3rd hand, a highly educated, successful business entrepreneur and rather convincing, but not an utmost ecologist focusing on collective transport, caring for greenness, the cultural heritage of the city, maintaining tiny shops and conventional craft workshops, and, above all, defending Krakow from the influences of the patodevelopmentist. Gibala besides cared about maintaining independence, avoiding mostly declarations on national policy issues. He abstained from voting at the time of the Krakow councillors' appeal for the coercion of vaccination, but he and everyone else voted to prevent us from listening to Roger Waters in Krakow due to the fact that he had inappropriate political views. The initiator of this second resolution, marked by political-emotional blackmail on the wave of the pro-Ukrainian euphoria of the year 2022, were PiS councillors and a very loud councillor from the club of president Majchrowski.

The upcoming elections will surely be an highly fertile field for commentators to analyse. Łukasz Gibala genuinely displeased and humiliated those who deprived him of his presidency in erstwhile elections, but judging from the national media run his way to a possible triumph might be even more difficult. This is an crucial argument for his candidacy, though I'm not certain he'll run in the earlier elections. With almost the full current City Council and the mentioned broad Krakow layout against each another in practice, it is an almost impossible mission. And what about the city and the cars? Here you gotta follow the rule of moderation, fair weighing arguments to find a balance and not attach to your own successes, due to the fact that time and circumstances can make what was wise yesterday not so today, only the rules are permanent.

Olaf Swolkień

Photo X profile of Alexander Miszalski

Broader analysis of the referendum in Krakow in the latest paper issue MP