Dr. Bartosz Ridlinski has produced a report that is not optimistic for the left as a parliamentary organization or as a political party ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. This document and the conclusions drawn from it were the main topic of a conversation between the political scientist and Intellia editor-in-chief Piotr Witwicki in the latest episode of the Bez Unikou series.
Why do popular demographics vote for PiS? Big changes happened in Poland
Expert Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński stressed that the left wing is in “big trouble” as it has lost to all its main factions: PiS, KO, Třessia Droga and Confederacza. “She no longer represents the workers and this does not only apply to the Polish left,” he pointed out.
As Bartosz Ridlinski has stated, there is a group of voters who voted for Aleksander Kwasniewski in the presidential election and supported the SLD in the Sejm and Senate elections, but who were “attacked along the way” by the left. . This system ended less than 20 years after Jarosław Kaczyński's party came to power. – These are residents of former industrial cities, former state farms, who believed that the post-communist left would protect them from privatization. Since 2005, PiS has consistently been a representative of this class, he said.
He drew attention to “the most interesting case”: Świętokrzyskie County. – It is not typically Catholic and does not belong to the east wall. Participation in Sunday Mass is low, and the history of communist partisans during World War II lives on. PiS still enjoys incredible victories there, and the left once had an electoral stronghold in the Świętokrzyskie region. This example, he explained, shows what kind of macro change took place when popular groups started waving to the left and voting for PiS.
About Poles working above their weight, about pre-election roundups, and whether the management of Potzta Polska should carry the letters themselves. Watch the full conversation between Piotr Witwicki and Dr. Bartosz Ridlinski:
Presidential election. Who is the leftist candidate? “Let's say it's Magdalena Bieyat.”
On Sunday, the National Council of the New Left will decide on the candidate for president of the Republic of Poland. The favorite appears to be Senate Vice President Magdalena Bieyat, who recently left the Razem party and remained with the left-wing Parliamentary Club. Włocławek chairman Krzysztof Kukucki is also at risk. Dr. Ridlinsky called these candidates “iron.”
– Regardless of who runs, let's say it is Bieyat – it seems to me that she needs to draw her conclusions not from the report, but from observations of the state of the left. It needs to be associated with something that evokes emotion. Interlocutor Piotr Witwicki emphasized that the left is currently connected to the agenda inherited by other political parties, and there are no themes specific to the left.
He added that Donald Tusk “has been excluding the left from human rights issues for many years.” -Not executing it later is a different matter. Mr. Tusk plans to include abortion rights up to 12 weeks in KO's “100 details,” and although he has no plans to implement it, many voters will still say, “This is a great party.” …). The left must show that it has issues that it will not let go of, and that it will be proactive in bringing them to the forefront. In that case, he said, he could even threaten to leave the government.
Polish apartment. Dr. Ridlinsky: I don't believe there is any representation on Tsarzasti's side.
What kind of problems could this be about? The political scientist recalled the endless turmoil in healthcare and the associated aging of Polish society and the increase in strokes and cancer. – We will need a lot of rehabilitation facilities and day care homes for the elderly. It will cost billions of zlotys, but this is what the left must gamble: we cannot save the lives and health of Polish women and men, and even if Donald Tusk wants to bash PiS will be the party that attacks.''Even if Mentzen punches us in the face, we will not give up on this issue, we are willing to die for this,'' he said.
As he said, he did not find decisiveness in the New Left, for example by agreeing to lower health insurance premiums while accepting a reduction in widow's pensions, or by always focusing on housing-related topics. I'm looking at the strategy that emerged. – If Włodzimierz Czarjusti wants to be such an asshole, he should fight for it, and I don't think there is too much independence on his side. If he wants to die for this apartment, let him die. He stressed that he wants them to prove they can pose a threat on a number of issues.
In his opinion, Biedjat should focus on jobs, health care, human rights and housing issues and make these the mainstay of his campaign, assuming he represents the left in the election. According to Dr. Ridlinski, this will be used by the Deputy Senate President to point out the weaknesses of KO's Rafał Trzaskowski, “her main competitor”. If the left wants to survive as an independent organization, it must differentiate not only from PiS but also from KO. It's her political “to be or not to be,” he said.
Will the left leave the government? Bartosz Ridlinski: I want the copy to be destroyed.
For now, it is unclear who the Razem party will field. Experts doubt whether Adrian Zandberg's campaign will be able to collect 100,000 signatures to put his name on the ballot, at least in the first round. – I have the impression that leftists want to run. Pyotr Szuzumulevich also expressed his hope. I wonder if you could collect signatures, because it would be embarrassing if we didn't. He commented that he thinks Razem recognizes the challenges he faces if he declares he will field a candidate.
What should the left do to make its presence felt in politics? In his opinion, Mr. Ridlinski's party is in a “dire situation.”・If she were to quit the government now, voters wouldn't understand it at all, but if she quit after six months of talking about why she wanted to quit, it might scare Tusk himself. ..). The left has not even trained or investigated him on this issue. If they have an attitude of “Yes, Prime Minister” then why do we need a leftist in the government? I hope she can land on these important non-obvious issues and even leave the government, said the political scientist.
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