President King. Let us yet build our own Polish system
Paweł Chmielewskihttps://pch24.pl/president-croll-build-in-own-Polish-system/
Can the president be king? No, due to the fact that he's the president. But he can imitate the king – and with all the limitations and imperfections specified a monarchy presidency is something that Poles could and should decide for.
The year 2025 should have been a year of monarchy – sometimes a deep and serious mention of the Polish monarchy, a constant reflection on its form and specificity, a constant reflection on our peculiar order (self) of government. 1000 years of the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry is rather a date – 1 can hazard thesis that specified a beautiful circular anniversary of the Polish crown does not gotta happen, due to the fact that whether the Republic of Poland will be further in 3025, God knows.
Unfortunately, that almost didn't happen at all. (Why I write, "almost," about it now). It's hard to give another large anniversary that we'd sleep through in a akin way. Yes, consent: 100 years of independency or the conflict of Warsaw [walks O Miracle over the Vistula md] tThey weren't celebrated the way they deserved. However, the caliber is different – Chrobry's coronation is simply a minute which, as it were, determines our Polish being.
Why did this happen? First and Main origin She's just like she always is, due to the fact that nobody cares. Our political culture built after 1989 did not make any way to celebrate the large national anniversary. We think about Poland almost exclusively in terms of the current organization fight, or in terms of legal and aspirational confrontation with the European Union or (half-)military confrontation with Russia or Belarus.
We do not consider the strategy more profoundly – neither its mechanics nor its basics; we do not research the more essential objectives of the existence of Poland. If anything is reflected at all, it is only dramatic suffering – those moments in which we appear as a victim; we can survive. Those in whom we triumph – armed, cultural, spiritual – no longer.
Second Cause is the distance – chronological and ideological. Boleslaw Chrobry and Piast do not decision at all – it is believed that this is simply a closed card of our history. It is good to read about it, to mention it well, you can watch it in a movie – but nothing else, it does not warm up or light up. Our historical imagination has kind of stuck in planet War II, and if it's crossed, it's only to uprisings or times, we utilized to "Russian beats behind Sarmation", but not seriously. We entered democracy so powerfully that we forgot what was before – and I don't think we want to remember that. Trauma? Maybe, I don't go into the cause; the ground is that we don't remember and we don't want to remember that we just don't care.
Finally 3rd cause sleeping through a large anniversary is the presence of this peculiar squad in power – Donald Tusk et consortes are not people who would be ideally able to do something large from the 1000th anniversary of the Polish Crown. But let us have no illusions – if the Law and Justice were to rule, it would not be much better, as the 2 anniversaries mentioned earlier have shown, and why this is so: see the erstwhile point, namely the deficiency of political modus operandi to the large past cards of our own community.
As a result, we simply ignored the 1000th anniversary of Chrobry's Coronation. I write: “We have ignored”, but it is simply a large quantifier, and specified real ones are rather rare. Here and there were various initiatives, even if due to their isolation or simply besides tiny a number were not able to accumulate into 1 mass, which would actually and effectively influence political awareness of Poles. Even if the Association of Fr Skargi organized a monarchy congress; on the PCh24 portal there were not many publications on royal power – both in historical and political terms and in spiritual terms. There were of course more akin initiatives – marches, meetings, lectures, conferences – although everything, yes, not enough.
Here I would like to urge another 1 of your attentions – book and thanks to this, I hope, rather durable. Dębogóra Publishing home has prepared a paper entitled ‘The presence of the Crown. study on the large State Tradition". This is simply a collection of texts by a large group of authors who have been writing about Polish issues for years, from 1 position or another. As a rule, I don't like specified collections – besides frequently excellent lyrics accompany them completely random; seldom only a broader and coherent thought emerges. In this case, however, it is different – due to the fact that the large variety shows precisely what the Polish monarchic tradition is, that is, the incredible complexity of the subject. Fr Maciej Zachara shows us something completely unexpected, that is, the liturgy of the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry – a pearl that shows us things completely forgotten, and yet large and holy. Paweł Lisicki seeks the links of the European medieval kingship to the Old Testament and the tradition of David, showing the spiritual sense of the monarchy. Jacek Bartyzel leans over the Polish colour of monarchism and our own memory of it... The texts are much more, I do not want to mention them all or summarize them; the reader will choose what will be the most valuable among them – whether they are reflections of Paul Milcark, Tomasz Rowinski, Filip Memches or Alexander Hall or Krzysztof Koehler.
I will follow only 1 of the thoughts that I found in this volume, which I have succeeded very well – due to the fact that it shows a very important, beautiful and useful aspect of the monarchy; a thing which should be present in all system, and which, however, we in the 3rd Republic completely perish...
Marek Jurek writes about various values of monarchy. Among them is “the appropriate knowing of politics, which, contrary to the common concepts, is not in itself a “fight for power” due to the fact that the home is internally broken (Mt 12:25)”. "The appropriate sense of politics, besides worthy of political struggle, is to participate in sovereign power. [...] The existence of sovereign power, represented by established institutions, determines the anticipation of politics. Without it, there's a civilian war, even cold. So a policy that has no awareness of the relativity of organization fights, which (though in the name of convictions) absolutizes their meaning – will always be destructive to the state, will inhibit its progress," he points out.
The universal history, although besides Polish, gives us many examples of a dramatic conflict for power – a violent game for the throne, which shakes the full country and frequently becomes a deadly threat to it. It may have been that these were not outside raids, but the turmoil of struggling contenders posed the top hazard to this or another state being in history. On the another hand, periods where 1 is strong and indivisible are a blessing to the permanence of states. It's simple: the worst is civilian war, due to the fact that as Marek Jurek writes, citing the wisdom maxim of the Gospel, the home internally quarreled will not stand. In the monarchy this state of affairs is perfectly visible, due to the fact that the difference between interior peace and civilian war is very clear.
And in democracy – especially in our Polish democracy? Are we aware of the existence of sovereign power represented by established institutions? Or else, do specified institutions even exist? It seems that their existence is at least dubious: in the 3rd Republic, even the Constitutional Tribunal becomes the subject of political fights, as if they were "conquering" in the ongoing civilian war.
Our Polish democracy, unlike in the monarchy perfect described by Mark Jurek, is just a "fight for power" – it is not a fight for "participation in power", but a fight for power itself. It's a giant, possibly even the biggest problem of our policy. Of course, it must be admitted, not only Polish – akin things happen besides in another democratic countries, although not always and not in all countries. In the national Republic of Germany, for example, so far there is simply a conflict for participation in power, not for power itself. Politicians are aware that the state is larger than their parties – possibly due to the fact that the RFN has a very strong organization backbone that no 1 challenges or violates. In any case, practice shows that a democratic game can be played in a more appropriate way – so as to preserve the presence of what is so beautifully present by the king, or stableness and state majesty. This is what ends in Germany today, but it's secondary – I show only the possibility.
It is worth considering what can be improved in our country to make the "monarchical" aspect of durability and majesty more present. Everyone will give him solutions that dictate his own view of political affairs – there may be dozens of specified solutions. I urge to you 1 solution, which – I think – has the advantage that it is of a kind muitatio regni, or imitation of the kingdom. This. strong and long lastingpresidency – not the 1 we have in Poland today, which is very weakened by the strong “cancler” position of Prime Minister and ambiguous constitutional records. At the same time, however, and not the same as in the US, where for a very short word and unclear rules of the election run "monarchical" the President's power is highly insidious in the long term. The Polish model of the presidency, if we could reconsider, could truly draw a lot from our monarchy tradition – become, mutatis mutantis, modern expression of the elective monarchy. Is that perfect? Nope. Is it real? possibly – and that is simply a lot.
Real competences that give a clear advantage over the government; a long word that makes organization politics independent – these are 2 predicates of presidential power, which could aid Poland get out of the previously described pathology of power conflict alternatively of participation in power.
You will find much more in this volume of thoughts that can form our “today” and “tomorrow” in political life. It is worth a look – let us have so much left of the 1000th anniversary of the Chrobry Crown.
Paweł Chmielewski
