In January of that year, primaries were held in the fresh Hope Party. I don't know what their mark was. So I don't know if they worked. However, they are a good excuse to consider whether specified primaries have meaning and what their intent should be. And how they should be organised to accomplish this goal.
What is the intent of the primaries?
The primary nonsubjective of the primaries is to review individual assets in order to choice people who are best suited to service as MPs.
The goal is to make a media event that would be an attractive form of starting an election campaign.
Somehow it has become so clear that democratic procedures are frequently utilized in policy-related procedures. We do it instinctively. Even the NN organization whose founder Janusz Korwin-Mikke She is constantly flaunting her contempt for democracy, in her own backyard, in her own primaries, she decided to host a tiny “holiness of democracy”. My observations of reality about the reasons why all kinds of voting is organised make me think that the democratic procedure is just a fig leaf covering the fact that decisions are made elsewhere. The way candidates are valued by the number of votes cast on them is besides rather dubious. If we take the NSA's primary results seriously, we'd gotta admit that Sławomir Mentzen is simply a candidate thirteen times worse than Gregory Crying...
If not democracy, then what?
Ladies and gentlemen, if you were to take people into management, would you organize the primary? Would you set up an urn and hold a vote of supporters of admission to the work of individual candidates? Think about it for a second. Would you even consider that option? If you're not crazy, the answer must be no. So what would you do?
You'd most likely start by reading your resume. Then you'd have a occupation interview, you'd be asking in the manufacture what the individual candidates think. You'd do any competence tests. In a word, by means of various methods, you would get cognition that would aid you make the right decision.
How can specified a simple reflection be translated into the primaries of the political party?
Selection in batches
Firstly, the electors should be replaced with a narrow group of specialists. 5-20 people. What should be the composition of specified a jury? This is simply a key issue due to the fact that it will be liable for the quality of the decisions taken. It is his members who will decide who is little suitable and who is more suitable. They must be people who are well aware of politics and its many conditions, and at the same time cannot be politicians. After a beautiful long consideration, it hit me. Journalists!
The composition of specified a jury is crucial . But it should besides be a way of judging. In my opinion, each jury should measure candidates separately in each competition, and the assessments of individual judges should be added, giving a sum that would constitute a final evaluation in each competition. This way of judging eliminates interior votes and compromises, and, more importantly, the summary presumption of evaluations, allows to find how individual judges assessed. This would give the anticipation to observe which judges are closer to the average and which are extreme. This way you can effort to measure the work of the judges themselves. And in gross cases, exclude from the work of a justice whose grades are besides different from the average.
Separately or centrally?
Should primaries take place in 41 districts separately or should they take place centrally?
It's no secret that many candidates run from districts that have nothing to do with them. The Member's work does not come down to being a typical of the region. In the organization strategy we have in Poland, individual parties represent alternatively a certain political philosophy, which is supraregional. alleged parachuting is not shameful. Of course, it would be better if the associate ran from the territory where he lives and is associated with. However, carrying out primaries in individual districts carries the danger that in 1 territory there will be respective excellent candidates, and in another there will be no 1 on the right level. And this will lead to an uneconomic usage of resources, so to speak. The central primaries will let to choice a large group of candidates for MPs who, in the next phase of the primaries, dispose of singles and subsequent seats in each district. The ranking of candidates for MPs created in the first part of the primary will find the precedence erstwhile choosing districts. In addition to this advantage, the organisation of 1 central primary will surely be much simpler than the organisation of 41 local primary . We must bear in head that, in addition to the function of selecting the best possible candidates for MPs, this must be political show. A kind of political show in episodes.
Preliminary selection
Shall I make a preliminary selection or not? That's a tough question. I don't have a firm answer. On the 1 hand, the open expression has its charm, but on the another hand there should be a right of veto that dispels people seemingly unacceptable. The question is, who would decide? And isn't this 1 point going to be a tool that crosses the meaning of everything that follows? Let me not answer that question.
One of the first ‘competition’ should be the presentation of the candidate.
Origin, any kind of household tree, ancestors. Whether the candidate started a household or 1 or more. How he raised children, if he has them, etc. An crucial part of this phase would be to tell about what candidates did in their lives. What they've already gained in life, what success they have in their account. Of course, everything in the cross fire of journalists' questions, so that the viewer can learn deeper about the candidate, his reactions, his character.
I think that specified a journalistic enquiry from the past life by journalists could be very interesting.
Motivation
The next phase should be investigating for motivation of candidates.
I always felt that cybernetic tools should be utilized for this kind of recruitment. I feel that the problem of today's political class is, among another things, its inappropriate motivations. Politicians are frequently not curious in acting for the common good, but only for their own good. Cybernetic tools offer opportunities to deal with this problem.
In addition to motivational tests, candidates could be tested for their political views. Well-designed tests would bring out the differences of view between candidates, which would be useful at the next stage.
Knowledge
I think 1 of the most interesting stages would be to question candidates with their cognition of everything that is politics. A crossfire of questions to check whether the level of political cognition is appropriate for the candidate. At the same time, journalists would have the chance to argue about any nuances of candidates' views, having the results of their tests. I think specified conversations would be interesting. I think, in the final part, all candidate should face any sharp journalist. With individual format Robert Mazurek. This phase would most likely be the most mediatic. You could make him a kind of game show, where words would be fought. Each circular would be scored separately. And it would be a ranking of candidates to make the full primary ritual attractive. The form is of course to be worked out, but 1 must bear in head that it is the first phase of the electoral campaign. That you can get to know candidates and have your favorites, you can get emotionally active with them. Like and fund a support group, which will be of large importance in the subsequent stages of the election campaign.
If needed, the best candidates could argue in debates. This would show the top class chosen in specified a procedure and would of course be a good start to the election run . The studio, built for the primary, could already service until the end of the campaign.
Passive mandate
One of the last steps would be to distribute seats in individual districts. But it is worth noting here that it may turn out that good candidates will be more than only ones. And at this point, we have a concept. a transitory mandate.
Because if a territory wants to run a fewer strong candidates, they can make an agreement that they will give themselves a ticket as a transitory mandate. specified a maneuver allows us to preserve whether to gather respective "choice locomotives" in 1 territory and at the same time let them play for a real chance to enter politics alternatively than just support one. It can be utilized optionally, adapting the solution to a peculiar problem. It may sometimes be a situation where the individual who has achieved the highest consequence gives his or her vote after 2 more years, otherwise it can be agreed that Members will surrender their mandate after 1 year so that 4 people can enter politics, etc. Any variant is possible. The problem is only honesty, or alternatively deficiency of honesty, which will origin individual to neglect to comply with the agreement. However, in the case of transparency, specified procedures should automatically stay covered by the anatomy.
The advantage of meritocracy
What advantages could specified organized primaries have?
First of all, we will make it hard to put on the ballots of the mediocre but faithful. People who are the faces of the opposition, reformist, pro-Polish organization should be strong individuals with equally strong ethos to service the common good. They should be superb and educated. In a word, elites that will bear the hard work of repairing Poland.
Secondly, we will replace our hated democracy with meritocratic procedures, showing the clear advantage of the latter. And thirdly, we're going to make an interesting political series that perfectly introduces the election campaign.
Sebastian Pitoń
