To all who present argue the thought of a common list of opposition – among voters is simply a minority, but this number will win due to the fact that we are governed by the interests of organization cameras and they do not want to – I want to say that I realize them well. individual – Anna Kwasniewicz – wrote here recently, filling out a form with support:
‘NOT for a common list. YES to the common backbone of the programme of the full democratic opposition."
The origin of this "no" and this "yes" is, I think, any insignificant misunderstanding in a very fundamental matter.
If the common list is to mean, for example, what has been realised during the fresh European elections, i.e. the "places taking" trade fair between organization leaders and the "celebrites" competition, in which 1 of the "one" gets Radosław Sikorski and another Leszek Miller, I am against it. This kills serious reasoning about the program, destroys pluralism, takes the choice, makes the voters of idiots, and yet takes the credibility of the full initiative, which in the spring 2019 election ended in a different impossible result: here pro-European Democrats managed to lose just those, otherwise impossible to lose elections with autocratic opponents of the Union and enemies of its values.
Instead of playing football
Or alternatively of "shattering in the head"...
Perhaps we remember from past – 20 June 1789 in the ballroom in Versailles 577 Members of the 3rd State after having expelled them from the General States' deliberations solemnly vowed not to part until the fresh constitution was passed. This minute of proclamation of the National Assembly became the beginning of spontaneous political activity of average citizens, the beginning of French parliamentaryism and, as it turned out, the beginning of parliamentaryism in continental Europe.
I realize the thought of a common list as a beginning of this kind: we request 560 people elected among democrats in 460 seats in the Sejm and 100 seats in the legislature – specified as those MPs who proclaimed the legislative parliament, the Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights and the Constitution of the Republic for a 4th of a millennium. It's something so distant from Sikorski with Miller getting along through Schetyna and Czarzaste: "I take Bydgoszcz, you take Poznań" – as the MACS0647-JD galaxy is far from Earth. What was done in this way was a mockery of democratic standards, and it was besides a strategical stupidity about the magnitude of the disaster: we lost the unlossable elections.
All you request is imagination.
As we remember, most likely better than the events of June 20, 1789 – so distant that they seem unreal – Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz does not imagine appearing on a common list with Claudia Jacira. I am not amazed at him or his fewer voters who besides do not want Jahira on a letter supported by them. I besides presume that the sympathizers of Claudia Jachira would not be rather able to realize her presence on a list arranged, for example, by Tusk and giving place alongside Jacira besides to PSL politicians. The answer to specified doubts and reservations – and they are more than understandable – which present offers to the public "political reality" is simply "it is essential and difficult". It's both naive and false.
Naïve, due to the fact that the fact that it “needs” does not show that it can be done. False, due to the fact that the agreement concluded under duress "need" and constructed as it was done in the European elections, is simply a simple recipe for a disaster in which candidate Jahir loses everything from her invaluable credibility, and candidate Kosiniak-Kamysz renounces his own program identity – and everything together spectacularly takes its head.
And yet they both sit in the same parliament, and this fact surprises and upsets the fewer – only those who completely do not realize democracy and do not know what respect for differences is and how even the most severe disputes are resolved in democracy.
You gotta imagine a common list like a parliament. Selected – necessarily elected among and by the Democrats. Left, right, center. Competing among themselves, as in average elections, for which in average mode there is no chance today. Not only due to the fact that the PiS has propaganda and all tools of forgery and manipulation. First of all, due to the fact that the right choices are a plebiscite between "good and bad", and the actual choices concern only the different options of "good". The consequence is simply a common list – yes, with Kosiniak and Jacira or, as anyone likes, with Miller and Sikorski. Not on the ones awarded, but on the places won in the program competition, or even in the fight between themselves.
Such a list, chosen, not negotiated – and in my opinion only 1 of the different variants of the electoral alliance – has a chance to be credible. In itself, he creates a promise of democracy, in which no 1 must fear the result of the elections and the situation in which his camp will be turned to dust by the triumph of his enemies. The common list is the realised promise and warrant of a democracy that respects everyone – and Jacira, and Kosiniak, to stay with these "extreme" examples.
Finally, he has this value that Jahira and Kosiniak will be on it according to all reasonable forecasts. That their supporters would go to the right choices, among another things, to proceed their competition. That thanks to their mobilisation – due to the fact that Jachira's dispute with Kosiniak mobilizes, not demobilizes – we will win.
Skeleton, or dead body of the common program
The joint programming declaration seems obvious. Well, it seems... Let us, however, look at real politics, not the myths told to us in the messages of the day. In today's state of affairs, it is clear that the seats in the election will be given both Robert Biedron and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish. What's the connection between the 2 gentlemen? There's usually a feeling of communion here. Democracy, regulation of law, European values. What does he share? The attitude to the Polish tradition.
The regulation of law, for example. PSL – together with Pl 2050 – did not support the bill on courts prepared under the Agreement for the regulation of Law. no of the opposition parties decided to support the beginning of EU sanctions for violation of the regulation of law in Poland – to look at the regulation of law in the context of these supposedly for all apparent European value. I will not match various embarrassing votes in these matters – in Poland and Europe. Consent exists here only on the level of communes. The attitude to the "Polish tradition" is women's rights, secular state, LGBT rights, the European Charter of Fundamental Rights (!), the Istanbul Convention.
The "Skelet of the Joint Programme" has 2 features. It contains washed from the contents of the commune that will not decision anyone. It is formulating a ban on dispute over controversy, which, unlike non-controversial cases, are the salt of politics. The reason many thousands of people have been out on the streets in fresh years. What we're curious in.
Yes, there are inactive alleged average cases. First of all, it would be more hard to agree to a joint programme on pensions, pension contributions, the organisation of appropriate funds to not mention retirement age than in most of the cases already mentioned. Second and most likely more crucial – although in all studies most Poles and Poles mention these things as the most crucial to them, at the same time almost no 1 in Poland believes that elections and change of power will change anything in these matters. Politics is unbelievable and alien. This needs to be changed first.
Programally lively, engaging, crucial and above all actual is not the "skeleton of the common program" agreed between Miller in Poznań and Sikorski in Bydgoszcz, but the protocol of divergence. A dispute to solve, not to sweep under the carpet. Parliamentaryism as a way of arguing that does not endanger any of its parties. A way to make peace between Poles. Parliamentaryism and the voice of citizens and citizens as arbitrators, which include the most important, decisive decisions.
Howgh!
