Tusk survived. Poland not necessarily

Seismic performance, Holovnia and the “good of the nation” in promotion.

June 11, 2025. Wednesday. In the Parliament hotter than in the oven on Podlasie, and in the journalistic gallery traffic larger than in the mall before Christmas. Finally, the event of the season: a vote of vote of assurance for the government. A real political show. And all by 1 name, Karol Nawrocki. president of the elect. The man who won with Rafał Trzaskowski – the favourite of 1 half of Poland and the nightmare of the other.

Play for stools and survival

Nawrock's triumph is not just trouble. This is simply a megablock for the Tusk government, who felt that in a minute they would block everything for him – and funds, and laws, and even air in the column room. That's why Donald, the old dog, played va banque. "Volume or end," he dramatised. And what? No 1 stopped due to the fact that if you drown, you don't philosophize, you vote.

But as it is with us – not by numbers alone man lives.

Hołównia – the last episode of the series entitled “Political Morality”?
If anyone else has the illusion that Simon Holovnia is simply a politician with a mission, he can already hide them in a drawer with a signature: “the naivety of youth”. The Marshal who cried over the Constitution present cries over the jobs. due to the fact that alternatively of trying to break up the coalition from the inside and can truly enroll in history, he chose what was known, comfortable and profitable: ministerial stools and bayheads in state companies.

A year ago, he spoke of a fresh kind of politics. Today? The kind may be new, but the message old as PRL: who has power, has resources.

Third Road on the side track

You don't request to be a polytologist to see that the 3rd Way is headed consecutive for marginalization. Poland 2050? How about Poland 0,2050? due to the fact that present it's a Tusk appetizer, which barely remembers it was expected to be a main course. And yes, the Holovnia could have come out with a face. But seemingly the faces were missing, or the mirrors were besides high.

Budget? Better not look.

What's next? 1.5 trillion dollars. No, it's not a fresh Lotto competition, it's from the budget bill for 2025. evidence deficit. Money out of the budget, like someone's playing monopoly, but without a board. And abruptly from Brussels knock-knock: "Hello, Poland, we have a deficit problem". And if there's a problem, there's gonna be cuts. Retirement at 70? Why not? kid benefits? possibly for the first, and the next 1 is luxury. wellness services? evidence expenses – and equally evidence queues.

But 1 thing goes like a wafer: ZUS contributions. due to the fact that how to kill an entrepreneur, it is only by tiny cuts – as with a canned ham.

The large successes of the government? Union Act and withdrawal of an application from the Constitutional Tribunal

Government? Yes, he does. For example: Registered Partnerships Act. And a hit of the season: to retreat the proposal for a Council of Europe Convention to prevent and combat force against women and home force in Istanbul on 11 May 2011. If anyone asks about success, go ahead. It's just that with, like, deficit and demography in collapse, it's like bragging about the fresh nail polish erstwhile it drowns Titanic.

Then what, Poland?

There's a question left. 1 thing, but most important: “What about this Poland?”. due to the fact that if it's the elite – then we, as a society, have a problem. And not just political, but existential. due to the fact that if politics is theater, there was drama in the Sejm on Wednesday. Not Greek. Poland. And the moral? Gotta get to work. But true, honest, responsible. Not the 1 in the Treasury companies, but in the heads and souls.

Piotr Sterkowski