On Thursday we met the name of Vice president of Krakow, who will be liable for education, social policy and housing. If you're following political criticism, that name isn't fresh to you. Maria Klaman co-founded the Politic Critic Lighthouse in Tricity, for years she was her boss, acting socially, coordinating and supporting activist movements. I won't hide that I met her 15 years ago as a large organizer.
Maria later moved from Tricity to Warsaw. She worked at the Leader School, collaborated with many NGOs. She was an advisor to the Board in the Association of Local Government Movement “YAK! For Poland”, and erstwhile she returned to Tricity, she worked as the Head of the Department for Local Cooperation and Repatriation in Sopot City Office. She co-wrote books about Tricity and participationThe 1 we released in the Political Critic Guide.
So why the controversy in New Left caused the appointment of the Vice president of Krakow to a individual so experienced in working with the self-government? due to the fact that Klaman is not from Krakow and her candidacy did not support local structures from the SLD faction in fresh Left.
Let us remind: fresh Left was created in the merger of SLD and Spring. At the national and local level there are so 2 authorities in the party: 2 organization leaders (Włodzimierz Czarzasta and Robert Biedron) and 2 presidents in Małopolska (Ryszard Śmiałek and Maciej Gdula).
In the local elections in Krakow, Nowa Lewica supported Alexander Miszalski. This won the election, which is why NL was to get the position of 1 of the vice presidents – a standard division of positions in politics. Miszalski wanted a woman, due to the fact that he had 3 guys on the vice presidents already, and he felt that specified a peasant in the town hall would be a shame.
And that's where we're going back to the NL dual power. Ryszard Działek prepared himself for the post, and erstwhile it turned out that there was no specified chance, he offered candidatures that Miszaliski did not respond. Gdula proposed, among others, Maria Klaman and Miszalski that this candidacy fit him in the town hall.
Miszalski told the media that the factions of the fresh Left could not agree on the appointment of the president acceptable to all candidates, so the impatient chose himself.
A part of Kraków's fresh Left got angry, but not on Miszalski, but on Gdula and on the fact that the paratrooper, who himself is not from Krakow, pushed a paratrooper from the Tri-City. Understandably pissed off.
What effect did this have? First, a storm in social media. Then there was the brifting of the Krakow NL for the media, on which Śmiałek said: "We consider it a large insult and insult to the inhabitants of Krakow, who so numerously gave votes so that the individual from Sopot, having no relation with Krakow, would become the vice president of the city of Krakow".
He besides added that Klaman has no ties to the local fresh Left and is from the “THAK! for Poland” association associated with Sopot president Jacek Karnowski. This is true, though not entirely, due to the fact that Mary comes from respective backgrounds. But even if it were as the Vice-President of Kraków NL said, 1 could boast that Nowa Lewica has pulled out a large local government expert. But that did not happen.
It happened differently: fresh Left City Council in Kraków adopted a resolution on Thursday, who announces that the Council has decided to retreat support for the coalition with the Civic Coalition club in Krakow, but will support "the ideas, drafts and resolutions in accordance with the fresh Left Programme and its values".
As far as I know, no coalition agreement has been signed between NL and KO, so this is not breaking any coalition arrangement. It is simply that fresh Left does not want to form a coalition in self-government, although it will support KO in the votes that are close to it. NL will besides be, whether she wants it or not, to have her vice president – Maria Klaman late enrolled in the fresh Left.
In this way, the Left one more time proved to us that nothing can be caught in what it does. Do you remember that in the presidential election in Krakow in the second circular there were 2 candidates supported by the Left? 1 through the fresh Left and the another through the Left Together. He now has a vice president who he doesn't support and around whom he's going to kick crap and conflicted factions in a organization that came out of the coalition before she even entered, and a organization together. What don't you understand?
Internal friction in parties is the regular bread of politics. Locals are pissed off at the office for bringing a candidate in a folder (understandable), 1 faction on the another for failing to appreciate the fact of bringing a competent candidate (also understandable). All claims made by politicians are poured out on X and press conferences. And then in the privacy of the cabinets, they ask themselves, why does the Left fall in the polls? possibly that's why?
Congratulations, Maria Klaman. I don't envy her the hatred she's gonna get. And all the factions, parties and parties on the Left, good luck with the deal.
