they came to the sixth. The crowd was certainly large, as the leader of the Polish opposition were parties recently for a group photo. The reason: they had just agreed on a new electoral Alliance. Under the name “European coalition” do you want to compete in the future together: first, in the election to the European Parliament on 26. May and – in case of success – also in the parliamentary elections in Poland in autumn. In the polls, the new opposition Alliance is not even bad. It has a good chance to hunt the national-populist PIS from the office.
The “Koalicja Europejska” a pretty colourful bunch, led by the conservative civic platform, whose leader, the former foreign Minister, Grzegorz Schetyna. The second-largest Partner, the peasant party. Also, Poland’s social Democrats, the liberal party Nowoczesna (The Modern) and the Greens.
The Name “European coalition” program – a commitment to the EU and its values, and the PIS threatened the rule of law; a counter-proposal to the nationalist-exclusionary policy of the PIS government, which is in a permanent clinch with the EU Commission and the European courts. The ruling party has drawn up for the European elections are already a number of hard-line eurosceptics, such as the former Minister-President Beata Szydlo.
the six partners in The opposition coalition to put on a success in the election in may. Your calculus could work: The district of the Polish Elections, the usual at a European election, takes part, comes mainly from the cities, the main voter base of the Opposition. A good result is to carry the coalition through the summer, and to victory in the parliamentary election in the autumn. It is a Parallel to 2015 would be in the opposite sign: at that Time, the PIS won the first, in may, the presidential election and then in the autumn the General election.
Opposition is very heterogeneous
of Course, the hurdles on the path to a government takeover of the Opposition are high. According to surveys, the opposition Alliance, which theoretically, would be artistically on the same number or more votes than the ruling PIS. The traction of the new Alliance, however, is not tested yet. And the ideological and political differences – for example, in the issue of Abortion, or in the attitude towards the Catholic Church – are the coalition partners are considerable.
as well as the political rivalries: Grzegorz Schetyna is the undisputed head of the civic platform, the strongest party in the Alliance. However, many poles like him because of his long political career – only ten per cent thought it was a good occupation in the office of the Prime Minister. Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, however, the young, dynamic head of the peasant party, more than double the approval.
For a government majority would not be sufficient in addition, a hoped-for success of approximately 35 percent of the vote. The new Alliance would need another Partner – for example, the new party Wiosna (spring). The is the child of the left-liberal politician Robert Biedro?. Until the fall of 2018, he was mayor of the 100’000 inhabitants of the city of Slupsk (Stolp) in the Baltic sea; a charismatic speaker, open homosexuals, and critics of everything that the PIS is love live.
according to Biedro?, is thrown the Catholic Church in Polish classrooms and are allowed same-sex marriages – in addition, Poland’s coal mines to be closed by 2035, and a number of government politicians are made because of right break in front of the state Tribunal. Biedro? promises, just like the PIS, a number of social boons: more children money, better public transport or free Internet in the whole of Poland. After its founding Congress, the Biedro? At the beginning of February, following the US model in front of Thousands of followers styled had shot his party in the polls ten percent. Polls, election results, however, are a different matter. Poland has a comet on a long Tradition of like – parties.
Tusk could compete
And there is another big Unknown or, better, a big Unknown: Donald Tusk, a long-standing Polish head of government, head of the European Council in Brussels. Tusk wants to return to Polish politics and a new movement reasons, based on the popular mayor of a large Polish cities. Your Work, Name: Motion 4. June, similar to the first (semi) free parliamentary elections in Communist Poland, at the 4. June 1989.
And then there’s the PIS. It is, however, not counted. As of 2015, the party is trying to buy voters with social benefits. At the time, the ruling civic platform had called for a higher child benefit, as the PIS, as a priceless excluded for the PIS that was a component of their success. Converted well 113 Swiss francs from the second child are for average earners in Poland, a considerable sum of money. In the children’s money flowed billions have solved none of the many infrastructure problems of Poland, but at least the consumer-driven. Now the Opposition has not promised the poles only, the children’s money to maintain, but even called for the payment from the first child.
However, the PIS assumes these voters buying now, before the election, and the advanced children’s allowance 1. July. “We appreciate the Opposition so much so that we fulfill their promises,” joked Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The program of Poland’s Opposition in the elections, wants to go, is still unclear. A message to Poland’s voters are already being made: “We will let you guys what has given you the PIS,” said the head of the Polish social-Democrats, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, “but give back to you what has taken the PIS.” Thus he alluded to the social welfare acts, on the one hand and on the other hand, the elimination of the independent judiciary in the past years.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 25.03.2019, 20:15 Uhr
