Who can take the lead?
On Monday, MPs will perceive to Matthew Morawiecki's exposé and vote on the vote of assurance for his government. If – which is highly likely – he does not get the support of the Sejm, the majority of the Sejm plans to establish a government of Donald Tusk, which is supported by the Civic Coalition, the 3rd Way (Poland 2050 and PSL) and the Left. For respective weeks now, unofficial information has been appearing in the media about Donald Tusk's future cabinet.
Both established ministries already have possible contenders to lead them. Catherine Kotula of the Left is to lead the Ministry of Equality. She hoped that women's issues and rights would be a precedence for the government. In turn, Marzena Okła-Drewnowicz, MP of the PO since 2007, and Vice-President of the elder Policy Commission, is to become Minister for elder Policy.
Katarzyna Kotula, associate of the Left since 2019 and erstwhile activist of the National Women's Strike, presently chairing the Committee on Social Policy and household Affairs in the Sejm. erstwhile asked about the responsibilities of the Minister for Equality Policy, Kotula pointed out that presently an equality agent, as well as actions against force and discrimination, is located in the Ministry of household and Social Policy.
There will be no Ministry of Family, there will be a Ministry of Equality
You think this is about the equality of retirement age? pic.twitter.com/EDNydmWasf
— Freedom_Word (@FreedomO) December 6, 2023
As Kotula points out with respect to the current office of lawyer Anna Schmidt:
Today, it is hard to tell what were the achievements of the PiS Plenipotentiary and I do not know if anyone would be able to name today's attorney.
Analyzing Schmidt's activity on the gov.pl website, it can be seen that in fresh years she has been active in, among another things, participation in the conference "Child Hurt by Crime" and participated in the debate "STOP Violence".
"A shot idea"
Deputy talker of the Sejm, Piotr Zgorzelski (PSL, 3rd Road), expressed the distance to the thought of creating a ministry of equality. He described it as a message to which there is no request to react. erstwhile asked if he saw any urgent request to make specified a hotel due to any irregularities concerning equality, he replied that he saw no reason to prosecute this idea.
Zgorzelski on Polsat News said that if specified irregularities occur, there are appropriate authorities to respond to them. He besides stressed that specified an thought would be “shot”, but he was able to imagine an equality attorney.
On the another hand, Mariusz Błaszczak, Minister of Defence, stated that the Ministry of household in the PiS government has been dealing with equality for many years. He added that the thought of creating a peculiar minister was a mockery from Polish families and that the only goal was to make a financial haven for various ideological extremists. Zbigniew Ziobro, leader of the Sovereign Poland, besides commented on this issue, asking whether advanced people would be reduced by head and low people would be stretched on the wheel.
"Ministry of elder Policy and Ministry of Equality."
I am counting on the fruitful cooperation of both ministries, peculiarly on equality in elder policy.@OklaDrewnovich with @KotulaKat They will fight to equalise the retirement age of men and women.
Equality is equality.
— TOM💎⚽️⚒️🇨🇮 (@NotHappyBunny2) December 7, 2023
The portal in politics.pl devoted a separate column to the subject. Its author predicts that the left wing of the Tusk coalition can origin real cultural threats specified as further pushing the Istanbul Convention, which, under the appearance of concern for women, introduces sex concepts and legal provisions. The author besides foresees that various LGBT organizations will gain more (financially) and Marta Lempart may hold respective pumped conferences, but from the discussion of young left-wing activists will have a sense of profession and bitterness everywhere.
Much little politicians have spoken about the concept of the second ministry, so it is worth referring to the opinion of net users. any support this idea, indicating that pensioners have been the most discriminated group for years. Others, in turn, believe that the fresh ministry is just a ‘money jump’ to place colleagues in crucial coalition positions. They add that if the PiS had taken specified a step, it would have been criticized.
What is equality according to the future minister?
The very name “Ministry of Equality” does not sound very good in my opinion. It does not associate positively, but on the contrary, what any might consider the existence of specified an institution to be an thought derived from Orwell's prose. It can be concluded from Catherine Kotula's message that the ministry will focus mainly on women. It raises the question whether this social group alone requires equalising everything possible. These seniors are besides a group that is not doing well. So why make 2 separate ministries?
Jana Shostak said yesterday about her abortion and that abortion should be available throughout pregnancy if a pregnant individual needs it.
She lost her place on the list today. @Kobywatelska.
All comment on our Instagram. pic.twitter.com/PIAJAybVYB
— Abortion Dream squad (@abortivedream) August 24, 2023
It will be rather a hedonistic approach on my part, but I think that man is already so programmed that in order to delight someone, he himself must have the minimum pleasure. And while the ultra-right movements insulting women and bringing them to a uniformly reasoning mass are far from my views, activists from the Women's Strike way (and Kotula to specified should) simplify the image of the world. According to them, men are not discriminated against or simply irrelevant. I would count—which is naive on my part—that Kotula would even bend over the issue of military service of men in the event of a war and either make women be called up, or completely abolish this work for both sexes.
Nor does the fact that Kotula, belonging to the alleged "Abortion Dream Team", signed with his members under the message that abortions can be performed even on a kid in the 9th period of pregnancy. These were words of Jana Shostak, which were not denied in any way by the said “Dream Team”, and so people have the right to feel anxiety.