I'm sorry about politics again, but I must express my joy at the far-sighted decision of the organization together not to enter into coalition talks with the SLD. I would only have a bite now looking at the electoral list, on which, yes, there would be individual intelligent and sympathetic – but on 1 They threatened Miller, Black, Wenderlich or Ionian.
That list's gonna be gone anyway. The election threshold for the coalition is 8%. The SLD had nearly more in erstwhile parliamentary elections (8.2%). A small better went in 2014 – 8.8% in local (sejmics) and 9.4% in euro elections, but in presidential disaster: 2.4%. This trend is not very interesting.
I am not opposed to this coalition for idealistic reasons (I am besides old for idealism) but for cold pragmatic reasons. The expression "widely unifying the left under the aegis of OPZZ" is nothing fresh for the SLD. That's how they always went to the election.
A 4th of a century ago, an SdRP organization was formed on the ruins of the PZPR, but it never competed in the elections alone. In the first parliamentary elections, many groups formed pseudo-coalitions in which the main entity surrounded a string of appetizers, e.g. Christian National Unity competed as the Election Catholic Action.
The SdRP formed the Alliance of the Democratic Left, a coalition of respective twelve entities, including, of course, OPZZ. It was only in 1999 that the coalition formally became a party.
It didn't substance much. For whom precisely was it crucial that Danuta Waniak or Jerzy Szmajdziński did not represent the party, but any start-up association?
As a SLD party, it created another coalition, this time with the Labour Union. Then with the ephemeral Democratic organization to now solemnly announce the unification of the left with the remnants of Palikota. As usual under the patronage of OPZZ.
When I was a young idealist myself, we faced a dramatic decision to launch PPS on SLD lists. I was in favour due to the fact that there was a pragmatic argument to me that it was worth having at least 1 word of Ikonowicz or Mizhevsky in the Sejm. And I inactive think it was worth it.
Only then the SLD could generously fire off a fewer tickets to a smaller entity, since it itself captured 171 of them. Now even if someway it slips through the threshold, it will most likely have a consequence comparable to that of 2011.
That means he won't get any in any wards. In others, there's only one. That is the logic of ordination, not very merciful to group number 4 or five.
Let's be honest: this 1 ticket will get the celebrated tv Jap. The remainder of us will tycoon for celebrity re-election, and after election night, she'll stay in the area to clean up confetti erstwhile the celebrity goes on TV.
The tiny coalitions will pay for this annihilation of their group, due to the fact that no 1 has survived the SLD coalition yet. PPS (1993), Labour Union (2001), Democratic organization (2007): everyone was out of the game after that. Is it worth it? Especially for free?
For a left-wing voter to have a shadow of reason to care about the endurance of the SLD or Palikot. But apart from the general slogan “Jerum jerum, Sejm without left” – do we have anything to regret? Have you seen Iwiński or Ryfinski with pride over the last fewer years and thought, “How good is it that these people are in the Sejm?”
I don't remember anything like that, although of course I invitation you to refresh my memory in comments. If there was nothing to be happy about, then there won't be much to regret.
I don't care if this coalition list exceeds 8% or not. The Parliament with Miller and Palikot will be the same for me as the Sejm without Miller and Palikot. Kurica not a bird, SLD not a left.
However, for the organization Together – hope to collect signatures! – this will be an chance to build structures before the next election. Something tells me that they will be sooner than they would have been due to the calendar, due to the fact that the Semys dominated by the right are mostly unstable (Seym I and VI of the tenure persisted after 2 years, The 3rd Parliament of the word of office persisted until the end, due to the fact that the coalition of AWS and UW divided up after 3 years, so the yearly agony was chosen alternatively of the early election – which was not a good idea, but it was a digression).
If Together is to play an crucial function in these next ones – now he must run alone. Even if it's only 1 percent, it'll be my voice too.
