There is simply a rumor in the media that the Civic Coalition would like to combine a referendum on abortion with presidential elections. It looks like the KO is wondering: how to change the fear that the disappointed electorate of the Democratic presidential election oils and will stay home – hope? Answer: Play the same game again!
It was an thought so simple, banal and beautiful, as if Igor Ostachowicz himself, the Prime Minister's advisor, on the names of his uncle singing longingly “dance with me again” or “let's play va banque again”, and wrote on the napkin nothing 100 specifics, which is wonderfully and very funnyly described in Newsweek in early September.
Referendum on abortion combine with presidential election – bingo! The coalition will gotta put together a joint candidate. Kosiniak-Kamish will be satisfied, and in any case he will be taken distant from the argument and the tool of blackmailing the opposition. Women will go to elections. civilian Coalition and Donald Tusk himself, who has been demonstrating for months that he has been given besides small power and so reforms go as after December – yet he will get more of this power.
It's true, the coalition is difficult. Szymon Hołownia has large ambitions, but little and little to offer, and the Left inactive reminds that the most catchy slogans (living a law not a commodity, the right to abortion and partnerships) belong to her. And it was their electorate who wanted the most: the right to abortion, partnerships, respect for human rights on the Polish-Belarusian border, reasoning about climate and the future, stopping demolition of forests and shortening the privileges of hunters and the separation of the Church from the state.
But the hardest is Kosiniak-Kamish, who actively sabotages the arrival of civilization. He even received the title of man of the year from the economical Forum. I guess a small promotion, as erstwhile legislature of Women promoted Donald Tusk, although he is trying, he wants to proceed to drive the housing crisis with a credit of 0% and a wellness crisis, for all his problems by proposing wolverines and huzaras, due to the fact that invests 2 billion in the arms industry. In addition, he supports hunters, trying to rise the prestige of the bloody caste, showing them not only as defenders of wildlife, but besides homeland. Finally, he openly sabotages the chapter of the Church from the state, doing nothing at all about the promised liquidation of the Church Fund.
With specified a coalition, delivering the promised changes before the election of civilization is not easy.
Addressing coalition problems by combining the presidential elections with the referendum seems a good thought from this perspective. It brings elections to the Manichean conflict, yet polarizes, ordering all Democrats to support a progressive president whose triumph will give wind to the sails of the civilian Coalition.
However, a fewer questions arise. First, who's gonna be the presidential candidate?
If the laur is to collect KO, it must be individual from KO: Rafał Trzaskowski, Donald Tusk or Radosław Sikorski.
Simon Holovnia is out double or even triple, as 1 who is not with KO, who is reluctant to abortion and as 1 who advocated a referendum, so he should be satisfied by now.
Rafał Trzaskowski would be the easiest for women and young people to support, due to the fact that his views on women's rights and climate are known and unchanged for years, which gives hope that he will not change them next day after the election.
Donald Tusk's candidacy would be risky, but in specified a Manichean atmosphere it would be possible to force through, due to the fact that he promised repeatedly and publically progress. However, human rights defenders would have a problem, who would gotta explain to themselves that possibly not everything at once, possibly women's rights first, then migration.
The worst of these 3 is Radosław Sikorski. What his views on abortion are, we can only guess. Rather, it would be the president for wartimes erstwhile climate issues, the separation of the Church from the state and others would simply cease to be in public space.
In fact, I do not know whether Igor Ostachowicz truly had the superb thought of a referendum combined with the elections. But if we go further into this speculation, it would be worth asking whether it assumes winning abortions in a referendum, or whether – as in the case of elections on October 15 and 100 concretes – it does not think about consequences or about strategy, focusing only on how to tactically collect a fewer more votes and win, and what will then be seen later.
