The ongoing election run for the office of the president makes each candidate rise any issues more strongly, and its competitor highlights others. frequently they do not mention to crucial problems, e.g. Poles surviving abroad.
Among others, those related to Poland's safety (including in the context of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict), the function of Poland within the European Union (including implementation of the Green Deal or immigration problems), as well as economical ones (related to agriculture or the function of Polish gold or the adoption of euro). However, 1 issue is not the subject of the campaign...
The issue of our countrymen surviving abroad is comparatively limited. This is not the subject of this campaign. It's besides bad, due to the fact that it's out of bounds. respective million Poles or people who talk Polish live in a better or worse way. Not to mention those who know only a fewer words in Polish, and remember their roots on the Vistula River.
It is estimated that almost 20 million Poles or people of Polish origin live outside the country. The largest Polish clusters are in the United States of America (more than 20 million people), Germany (2 million people), Brazil (1.8 million people), France (1.05 million people), Belarus, Ukraine and Canada (0.9 million people), the United Kingdom (0.5 million people), Argentina (450 1000 people), Lithuania and Russia (300 1000 people), Australia (200 1000 people), Sweden, Italy and Kazakhstan (100 1000 people each) in the Czech Republic (also 100,000 people, mainly Zaolza), Ireland (80,000 people), Latvia (75 1000 people). Many groups of Poles besides live in Austria, Denmark, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland and Hungary. Their numbers scope from about 20,000 people to 60,000 people.
Such a large number of people, many of whom (especially in America or EU countries) have electoral rights, will remind the 2 candidates who will go to the 2nd round. We already know the name of 1 of them, and the text is written before deciding what will happen on May 18. He is the Vice-President of the PO, president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. At the time of the publication of the article, we will know the name of the second countercandidate. The polls indicate it's more likely Charles Nawrocki. They give little chances to Sławomir Menzen. Although an example from Romania shows that specified studies may be underestimated for any candidates. The winner of the first circular there George Simion received more than 11 percent of the vote than indicated by public opinion poll institutes.
The 2 politicians will most likely return to the subjects listed in the lead of this article during the alleged "adventure" which will be decided on 1 June, limiting the function of the Polish diaspora in the decisive fight to the function of passive listener, based mainly on "resents" and on emotional response.
Let us callback that in the erstwhile 2020 presidential campaign, where the difference between the 2 candidates was comparatively small, due to the fact that over 400,000 votes decided to win 1 of them. This year, the function of emigration, following the Moldovan example, where it was the voices from abroad that decided to re-election The president of this country may be much bigger in Poland. Everything indicates that the choice of this candidate or another candidate may be decided by about 200,000 votes. That is why the function of voting Poles from abroad in these elections may prove decisive.
The question is, what could convince them to vote for this candidate or any another candidate? There is 1 solution to the cannon bill. all parliamentary election is followed by a kind of redecoration of the ministries. any are left, others change names, any are merged with others. From the position of 30 years of the Polish political system, which was formed after 1989, it should be noted that no government or president truly remembered Poles surviving in the West, in the East or on the another side of the Atlantic.
Polish affairs are dealt with by various institutions. This kind of " territory breakdown" causes that a Pole surviving abroad may have difficulty uncovering the right institution. any matters belong to the consul's competence, e.g. education or financial assistance to another entities (the applicable ministries or remains within the competence of the foundations or communities cooperating with the Polish Senate).
It is crucial to consider whether in the course of this presidential run there should yet be a request to make a strong “ministery for diaspora” in the head of the deputy prime minister, who in his ministry would focus these departments on emigration liable for household affairs, issues of property of Polish organizations in a given country (including those plundered and unrecovered), education of Polish youth abroad or matters related to repatriation and citizenship. This tiny motion would show that the Homeland cares not only about relations with its diaspora, but would besides strengthen the desire to return Poles home, besides in the demographic context.
The movement on this issue is both on the side of Members and Senators having a majority in the current parliament, as well as on the side of the current president indirectly linked to the strongest opposition club. Whoever senses this economical situation may benefit from the thought described above. And shortly it may turn out that it is the diaspora who will decide on 1 June who will become the head of the Polish state.
Although the aforementioned "rivalization" regarding the establishment of this hotel would not be good at its origin. It would be appropriate for this entity to be formed by consensus, in order to emphasize the function which the Republic of Poland is yet beginning to attach to its countrymen, surviving in both Americas, countries of the European Union, but besides in the erstwhile russian Union.
Robert Trzaska
Post scriptum: the article was written before the first circular of elections and can only supply hints for both staffs that will face in the II round. The author hopes that these words will not prove to be a circumstantial “call in the wilderness” in this regard.
Robert Trzaska (1970) – associate of the Society of past Lovers and the Society of Lviv Lovers / Capital Branch. A Balkan lover. Its favourite cities are Budapest and Lviv. He is passionate about the past of the Second Republic, with peculiar emphasis on the past of football, especially in relation to Warsaw and Kresów both east and southern.
