“Both to the right of us and to the left of us, we have a considerable reserve of votes. We must win those votes. But we must also create something broader. Something that will allow us to achieve a great victory—one unlike any before. A victory that will allow us to take the straightforward path to changing the constitution,” said PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński today.
Speaking in Poznań, the chairman of Law and Justice addressed both the current reality of the ruling coalition and the prospect of regaining power.
“We are experiencing a phenomenon that, on one hand, is disastrous—it destroys our country, our prospects, our achievements—and on the other hand, carries many elements of hope. The crisis we are now experiencing is a crisis of the system that emerged in Poland after 1989. This system was very quickly labeled post-communism. On one side, far-reaching changes took place, all forms of democracy are maintained, Poland is independent. Yet on the other side, remnants of various social phenomena from the previous regime still persist.
The most important of these is the mechanism of negative personnel selection, which causes social advancement not to result from positive qualities, but more often from negative ones. This premise builds a system where we have democracy, but at the same time everything that happens in our country—subsequent elections, changes in government—contains one element that contradicts the principles of democracy. That element is the replacement of genuine democratic processes with manipulation. There is no connection between what is declared and the actual program,” he told the audience.
“We are witnessing the destruction of social life and of the achievements of previous years, but at the same time we are dealing with a moment of justified hope that this can change. We will strive to build a truly democratic system and, thanks to this, we will also be able to realize principles relating to citizens’ rights, their influence on social and political life, and to carry out an entire operation of developing Poland at a pace much faster than other European countries. Alongside the crisis affecting our country, we also face a broader crisis: a global crisis of the geopolitical order and a crisis within Europe. Now the question before us is how to overcome this.
We have already, to a considerable extent, changed this system through eight policies that brought results—repairing public finances, social policies, development, local governance, agriculture, culture, education, and security,” Kaczyński continued.
“We must set great goals,” he emphasized.
“Both to the right of us and to the left of us, we have a considerable reserve of votes. We must win those votes. But we must also create something broader. Something that will allow us to achieve a great victory—one unlike any before. A victory that will allow us to take the straightforward path to changing the constitution,” the politician declared, while also pointing to the particular role of President Karol Nawrocki.
“Today, more and more people are beginning to understand what really happened and how they were deceived. This is what we must build on everywhere. Everywhere can be much better,” he concluded.