According to authoritative data of the State Election Commission in April 7 elections To the Provincial Sejm, the Left achieved only 6.32%, which is 2.3% little than last year's parliamentary elections. It was ranked last in the ranking of parties presently represented in parliament, behind the Confederacy. This is the last bell to awaken from lethargy and cease to match the Citizen Coalition and the 3rd Way. To halt being a tiny and centred group or quasi-centred group, due to the fact that that doesn't truly pay.
Only the consequence of the Levica-supported, originating from Party environment Total Senators Magdalena Biejat in the election for the president of the capital city of Warsaw (12.86 percent, the 3rd in turn) did not inspire an abstract, and even met with admiration. But she besides – despite legitimate, though cautious, social demands – tried besides hard to imitate the PR kind of Rafał Trzaskowski. As a result, she was far behind PiS candidate Tobias Bochenski (23.10%). The adopted tactics did not supply Biejat even a second place on the podium despite favorable pre-election polls.
The Left, in order to scope its mark voters, should bear in head world-view issues – concerning human and citizen rights and freedoms – and should not quit its action in this field. At the same time, it must be definitely pro-social. On world-social issues liberal, socio-economic socialist. As the erstwhile president of the erstwhile SLD Grzegorz Napieralski presented, he achieved a reasonably decent consequence in the 2010 national presidential election of 13.6 percent (I mention only to the then run message of the Napieralski staff, without getting active in assessing the sincerity of his intentions and subsequent political transfer).
During the current increase in the prices of housing (sale and lease), astronomical comparative to average real earnings, and resulting from, among another things, speculative activities, the Left should request not only the improvement of social construction or fresh anti-flopper taxes, but besides the introduction of legally defined, maximum prices per square metre of property and rental prices. This was done in Berlin, for example. The Left should fight for a steady, real wage increase in all sectors and sectors of employment and social benefits for the unemployed, pensioners or pensioners. To reduce the working week, to improve public health, education and collective transport.
In the dispute between the capital and the layer of the holders and, on the another hand, the workers and the middle-aged and mediocre part of society, the Left should stand without a shadow of hesitation on the part of the latter. possibly this dispute is historically unsolvable, but individual must play the function of ally and spokesperson for the weakest. In electoral leaflets of left-wing candidates and candidates, for example, I would like to read first about support for workers, and only then – for local entrepreneurs.
At the same time, it is worth adding to the desired goals of the contemporary democratic-socialist left to the anti-obtrusive and authoritarian against average citizens the nature of state institutions and services (for which unfortunately all authority, regardless of political colours, tends). These institutions in the perfect model should service only organisational and redistributive functions for a broadly understood society.
Furthermore, it would be advisable for the Left to start to argue imperialism, militarism and nationalism/szovinism in global and geopolitical matters, regardless of whether it is manifested by the current political authorities of the Russian Federation or, for example, the US, Ukraine or Israel. Even from the main politicians of the civilian Coalition (e.g. Minister Radosław Sikorski) the fresh “grosses” of condemnation to the crimes of the Israeli army and the ultra-nationalist government of Netanyahu behind it. On the another hand, we have heard very little, cautious and even biased statements from most leftist politicians. It's besides worth working on.
Personnel changes in the leadership of the Left stay to be considered. It may be worth remembering that, for example, 1 of its current leaders, Robert Biedron, was rather unfavorably received by the electorate during the 2020 presidential election, in which he won only 2.2 percent of the votes (similar to those of the leading leftist groups Magdalena Ogórek, which had been held respective years earlier). Ladies and gentlemen, bet on clear politicians, those who can scope possibly left-wing voters and conquer their hearts.
Although there are sometimes good and useful demands or draft legal solutions in the Left, they are frequently presented to the public very politely later. possibly due to not offending co-organizing coalitions, the planet of large finance, or neoliberal media of the TVN stream. Many of the demands (but besides politicians) of the Left are besides inactive "taken up" in a processed and truncated form by the Civic Coalition, including its main strategist – Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The Left alone can't scope its constituents with them.
It should be added that left-wing politicians must yet truly believe in the rightness of their agenda and what they preach, not be afraid of courageous visions, speeches and actions, due to the fact that that is the only way to scope broad groups of voters. Look at the temperament and outcry of the leading PiS politicians – a group rightly removed after 8 years of government on a national scale, but victorious in the elections to the Sejm. Swade and populism won't hurt. The Citizen Coalition besides won last year's (2023) parliamentary elections thanks to an acute, non-verbal campaign. The voters are mostly not polite.
Meanwhile, the Left, alternatively of turning red – pale, and the proletarians, the Precursors, the unincorporated, the unemployed, who do not own their own homes (or, for example, those who look at global affairs somewhat differently) are most frequently left alone and do not go to the polls – or vote for the populist-chadeco-national PiS. The investigation of the social opinion studios, possibly left-wing voters, including, apart from the aforementioned, various minorities, women, but frequently forgotten inmates, shows that they are little and little likely to vote for the Left.
Without expressive message, supported by authentic communication with broad social groups and attention to their vital, material-life needs – the Left can yet be alone, apart from the bodies of typical authority. It's time to yet emergence from a dream.
