On Friday, May 10, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a government reconstruction. There are 3 things about her. Firstly, Tusk chose the option of the fastest possible reconstruction: he listed the 4 ministers who compete in the Euro-elections and did not decide on a deeper reconstruction of the cabinet. Secondly, we received a political reconstruction – which does not mean "weak". The government was not strengthened by any individual with a strong, independent political position. Thirdly, the reconstruction brought 1 surprise – at the head of the Ministry of Culture was not a politician, but a individual from the planet of culture, erstwhile manager of Zachęta, Hanna Wróblewski.
Don't swing the boat?
Why did Tusk not carry out a deeper reconstruction, although for a long time there had been information that he should be dissatisfied with the work of at least a fewer more ministers? most likely Tusk doesn't want to swing the boat before the election and make political controversy.
The callback of non-European ministers would be widely read as evidence of the Prime Minister's negative assessment of their work. The Law and Justice would surely usage this in a run like: "They called specified hopeless ministers that even Tusk had to kick them out of the government after little than 5 months."
The leader of KO so assumed that the work of the climate minister would not rise any doubts. Pauline Henning-Kloski, since it does not run for EP, it is better not to admit it during the run period and not to give ammunition to opponents.
Deep reconstruction would besides mean negotiating with all coalition forces forming the government, for which the election run is not necessarily the best time.
At the same time, the decision of 4 ministers to take off in the Euro-elections has already sparked and will rise controversy, including among the KO voters. Tusk argued on Friday that ministers had done their occupation in government and are now going to other, no little crucial European work. Outside case of Minister Sienkiewicz – who entered the government to clean up after the PiS in TVP and another cultural institutions and did so effectively, even if not always the most elegant – this communicative rather on average describes reality.
Perhaps even many prominent KO politicians would have a problem telling what circumstantial task in the government was full carried out by Marcin Kierwiński or Boris Budka. Krzysztof Hetman of PSL started 0 % credit work., but he leaves for Brussels, if he gets a ticket, long before they end. It is not known whether the task will proceed after it leaves the hotel – which is not necessarily bad news.
Former ministers will be campaigning in the shadow of accusations from the opposition, accusing them of abandoning their tasks in government for a better paid occupation in Brussels – and these charges may besides go to people who do not imagine always voting for the Law and Justice. Their launch will besides be accompanied by speculation that Tusk was not satisfied with their work, and that taking place in the letters to the European Parliament was a form of "golden parachute", "a kick up".
How shallow and careful so may reconstruction would not be, then how all change in government will be accompanied by political controversy.
No heavyweight politicians
Apart from Tomasz Siemoniak, who adds to the portfolio of the Minister-Coordinator of peculiar Services taken over by the Kierwiński MSWiA, among the fresh ministerial appointments there are deficiency of politicians of real weight, enjoying their own independent political position or at least a widely recognized name.
Jakub Jaworowski, the fresh Minister of State Assets, Krzysztof Paszyk the fresh Minister of improvement and Technology, yet Hanna Wróblewski are not people known to the public. Although those who closely observe Polish politics should associate Paszy, a self-government official, an activist of PSL, a long-term MP, and everyone who deals with culture knows Hanna Wróblewski, who has built herself a strong position in the environment as the very well-judged manager of Zachęta.
Jaworowski worked for the governments of PO-PSL in 2012-2015. To the public's attention, it broke erstwhile in 2015 during the government negotiations he told the representatives of the mining trade unions to "don't mock," to which they in consequence broke up their deliberations, calling the government's representatives "shit". shortly we will see how the Minister is handling negotiations with strong unions from state-owned companies today.
So we have a reconstruction done with the aid of politicians from the second line and experts without their own strong political position. What made you decide that? possibly she decided to minimize the political controversy that would naturally bring strong political nominations. possibly Tusk felt that he preferred to bet on ministers whose future in government – due to the deficiency of his own background – would depend solely on the Prime Minister's decision.
The fresh nominations in the ministries of state assets or improvement do not send any strong signal so far, in which direction the policy of these ministries will go, we gotta wait for the concrete decisions of the fresh ministers - what the replacement Hetman Paszyk will do yet with the 0 percent credit task will be peculiarly important.
Surprise in Culture
The biggest surprise is the nomination for Hanna Wróblewski as Minister of Culture. Until the last moment, the information coming from the vicinity of the government suggested that Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz will replace the politician – it was said about Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Pawle Kowalu, Andrzej Wyrobc – that the variant of the Minister of Culture originating from the cultural environment is alternatively excluded. However, as you can see, Tusk yet decided to do so.
Wróblewski came to work for the hotel together with Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, so she will not gotta learn the ministry from scratch, she can immediately enter the work. And that's a lot. After the “great order” of Minister Sienkiewicz leaving for Brussels, a fresh imagination of the state's cultural policy after the PiS, a fresh agreement between the state and the cultural environment is needed. 1 which, on the 1 hand, treats culture as a strategical sector, on the another hand, unlike the minister of prof. Gliński's time, does not anticipate culture to implement a certain ideological programme in exchange for the state patronage. It is besides essential to complete issues specified as the Act on the position of a professional artist, so that yet the social safety strategy in Poland takes into account the specificity of artistic work.
Wróblewski has no uncertainty the cognition and competence to propose a fresh beginning of culture after the Law and Orders after the Law and Justice. It will besides enjoy in the cultural environment the credit of trust that no minister-politician would have. The question is whether a weak political position will not be an obstacle to the fresh minister's pushing his own ideas.
Deeper reconstruction is inevitable
The reconstruction of May 10 was the first to embrace Tusk's 3rd government, although surely not the last. 1 can anticipate the next to be much deeper. How deep the European elections will decide, among another things. If the KOs win decisively and the smaller coalitions accomplish disappointing results, this could open up a discussion on how government influences should be divided. Especially if – so far no poll indicates – the Left was not to exceed the electoral threshold.
Even among those who sympathize with the fresh government, there are more and more voices that it is not able to deal with communication, especially in matters specified as the atom or the CPK, that it is incapable to present to the public its own imagination of the country's improvement beyond the more or little efficient day-to-day administration and settlement of the Law and Justice.
Probably before the presidential election to avoid demobilizing the coalition electorate, Tusk will gotta admit that any ministers are poorly coping with the tasks and bringing into the government people with any fresh ideas, energy essential to implement them and talent allowing them to communicate effectively to the public – possibly by making a strong shuffle of the full cabinet deck.
