The climate of the run preceding this year's election by local government publicists in accordance with the word "unsound", due to the fact that agitation could in rule be brought to hanging on balconies and fences duplicate banners akin to each other. The water in the tap of local policy seems to be summertime, and the temperature of local disputes does not trigger either the creativity and will of candidates, nor the commitment and sense of the origin of the citizen. The second moved to the polling stations much little crowded than in October 2023, which allowed the PiS to be removed from power, but not the right.
According to the exit poll IPSOS survey, attendance was 51.5 percent, over 20 percent points little than erstwhile we chose the composition of parliament. Nothing fresh – any will say, and they will be right. Local mobilization has never been peculiarly high, as politicians and the media themselves seek. The alleged large and awesome central policy occupies more air time, and thus besides places in the collective imagination, than local government work at the base. If you were hoping for fireworks, I'm sorry, but all they offer is dripping.
For Rafał Trzaskowski But that's large news and a recipe for success. In the end, the Italian capital managed to re-election, gaining almost 60% of the remaining rivals' support. For the full Civic Coalition, news from the electoral front is moderately good. She took second place just behind PiS, but possibly it's better, due to the fact that you don't gotta exchange a torn anti-script disc and go where KOs don't want to or where KOs don't want to, that is, to region Poland. I understand, due to the fact that I besides get to a point in my life erstwhile I find it little and little fun to rip out my life and teardrop off my clothes in the name of ideas and progressiveness, and the convenience of the conformist is becoming more and more tempting.
In addition, the fullness of power means greater responsibility, and to this group of Donald Tusk it was most likely never this hastily, given the apathy in reflecting power during the eight-year regulation of the Law and giving him almost a combative ninth time in a row of influence outside large cities. The Citizens' Coalition one more time seems to say, "We're fine."
In fact, only champagne cools in the KO election staff, if we accept the success propaganda that Tusk has checked out, focusing not only on the individual winning faces of certain people specified as Trzaskowski or Aleksandra Dulkiewicz in Gdańsk. The Prime Minister besides stressed that his organization "was able to recapture the main voivodships", and the most crucial opponent in the cities which he had ruled so far "had a spectacular defeat". Of course, it is crucial that we talk about cities alternatively than smaller towns and villages, but who cares?
Certainly not a political force that doesn't gotta exert itself to be in the game. He does so, among another things, through skillful, though unreasonable, lawlessness, which does not, on the 1 hand, make her change her base, or established conservative and classist (not curious in a position another than the entrepreneurship-male-male) views, and on the another hand, sometimes allows her to long her hands to a somewhat more utmost side, in order to capture something for herself in the form of an unself-electorate.
So in 1 run you can grin at women gradually, promising them a legal abortion and at the same time scaring refugees, satisfying the emotions of racist, though uneurosceptic patriots. In large cities, however, there is no request to do anything due to the fact that the dominant mediate class or those who aspire to it will not vote for the Law and Justice.
Does this mean that a strategy of safe and inconspicuousness pays off? Tuskom and Trzaskowski – how yet, but not left, which in the local elections (according to preliminary data) gained a score worse than the Confederation. The candidate for president of Warsaw Magdalena Biejat, although in the polls she was to leave behind the rival of PiS, Tobias Bocheński and be behind Trzaskowski, had to settle for the 3rd place and support at the level of 15.8%.
A lot? Not much? Leader of the fresh Left, The Wizard, is pleased due to the fact that "this is the best score of the Left for many years" and the chance that "in the next election we will have a president". And will we besides have a organization leader? I ask for colleagues who have been waiting for at least 1 female to lead the left since abortion protests in 2020. For now, however, we feel that even this non-controversial thought proves to be a challenge to the claims of a professional party.
During the election evening of Political Critic at the Warsaw bar, however, there were another charges – the same as what Magdalena Biejat said about the loss. "We presented a great, comprehensive programme for Warsaw, which we showed day after day, from which another candidates were slaughtered," she pointed out like a primate left, possibly unintentionally scoring the top weakness of her formation – likeness to KO and being warm, although unnoticed by the inhabitants by water in the sewerage of large cities.
That is why in the election comment I said that fresh Left, if it wants power and change, should truly be a fresh quality in Polish politics. This requires a focus on radicalism and distinguishing from neoliberals, straight stealing any progressive, comfortable demands for themselves, and with them voters to their centre-right agenda. But does the Polish left truly want to be different from Tusk?
