Polish Politics and Elections

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Edit: I just remembered Polish Coalition barely reached the threshold in 2019 with 8.55%. Good luck this time, lol.

Actually, the Polish Coalition ran under the PSL party committee in case their result was below the 8% coalition threshold (Lewica did the same under the SLD symbol to avoid what happened to them in 2015), only KO (Civic Coalition) ran under a coalition committee in 2019. Just to clarify.

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Internal composition of the parties within lists with representation in the Sejm (according to the official Electoral Commission site labels):
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość/Law and Justice 194: PiS 157, Suwerenna Polska (Ziobro' party rename) 18, Republicans (Agreement pro-PiS splinter) 4, Kukiz'15 2*, "non-partisan" independents 13* (*including Paweł Kukiz himself or members of OdNowa RP -other Agreement splinter- or Polish Affairs)
Koalicja Obywatelska/Civic Coalition 157: PO 122, Nowoczesna 6, Inicjatywa Polska 3, Zieloni 3, RS Agrounia TAK 1, "non-partisan" independents 22
Trzecia Droga/Third Way 65: PL2050 33, PSL 28, Centre for Poland (PO splinter affiliated with PSL/KP) 3, "non-partisan" independent (affiliated with PSL/KP) 1
Nowa Lewica/New Left 26: NL (SLD and Wiosna merger) 19, Razem 7
Konfederacja/Confederation 18: KWiN (mostly Ruch Narodowy/National Movement members) 7, Nowa Nadzieja/New Hope (former Korwin party) 6, KKP (Braun' monarchist party) 2, "non-partisan" independents 3 (including Karina Bosak, Krzysztof' wife who defeated Janusz Korwin-Mikke in preference votes)

Top 30 elected candidates by preference votes:
1. Donald Tusk (KO, PO leader, former PM and EU Council president) - 538,634 votes in Warszawa I (#19)
2. Jarosław Kaczyński (PiS leader, former PM) - 177,228 votes in Kielce (#33)
3. Adam Szłapka (KO, Nowoczesna leader) - 149,064 votes in Poznań (#39)
4. Barbara Nowacka (KO, Inicjatywa Polska leader, former leader of the United Left in 2015) - 139,524 votes in Słupsk (#26)
5. Piotr Gliński (PiS, Culture and National Heritage Minister) - 135,339 votes in Warszawa I (#19)
6. Mariusz Błaszczak (PiS, National Defense Minister) - 127,578 votes in Warszawa II (#20)
7. Małgorzata Wassermann (PiS, 2-term Member of the Sejm) - 125,786 votes in Kraków (#13)
8. Przemysław Czarnek (PiS, Education and Science Minister) - 121,686 votes in Lublin (#6)
9. Mateusz Morawiecki (PiS, Prime Minister of Poland) - 117,064 votes in Katowice (#31)
10. Marlena Maląg (PiS, Family and Social Policy Minister) - 109,870 votes in Kalisz (#36)
11. Sławomir Mentzen (Konfederacja, Nowa Nadzieja leader) - 101,269 votes in Warszawa I (#19)
12. Borys Budka (KO, parliamentary caucus leader, briefly PO leader before Tusk' return) - 101,258 votes in Katowice (#31)
13. Kacper Płażyński (PiS, Member of the Sejm, former Gdańsk city councilor) - 100,445 votes in Gdańsk (#25)
14. Mirosława Stachowiak-Różecka (PiS, 2-term Member of Sejm, former Wrocław city councilor) - 97,193 votes in Wrocław (#3)
15. Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (KO, Member of the Sejm, former Minister) - 95,873 votes in Kraków (#13)
16. Sławomir Nitras (KO, 4-term Member of the Sejm, former MEP) - 90,720 votes in Szczecin (#41)
17. Krzysztof Brejza (KO, Senator for the 10th district, former Member of the Sejm) - 89,840 votes in Bydgoszcz (#4)
18. Elżbieta Witek (PiS, Marshal/Speaker of the Sejm) - 89,172 votes in Legnica (#1)
19. Dariusz Joński (KO, co-founder of Inicjatywa Polska) - 87,470 votes in Łódź (#9)
20. Kinga Gajewska (KO, 2-term Member of the Sejm) - 85,283 votes in Warszawa II (#20)
21. Bogdan Zdrojewski (KO, Senator for the 6th district, former Minister, MEP and mayor of Wrocław) - 85,099 votes in Wrocław (#3)
22. Agnieszka Pomaska (KO, 5-term Member of the Sejm) - 83,590 votes in Gdańsk (#25)
23. Szymon Hołownia (TD, Polska 2050 leader and former Presidential candidate) - 79,951 votes in Białystok (#24)
24. Alicja Chybicka (KO, Senator for the 7th district) - 78,816 votes in Wrocław (#3)
25. Elżbieta Polak (KO, Marshal of the Lubusz Voivodeship -until two days before the election when she resigned-) - 78,475 votes in Zielona Góra (#8)
26. Zbigniew Ziobro (PiS, Suwerenna Polska leader, Justice Minister and ex officio Prosecutor General) - 74,592 votes in Rzeszów (#23)
27. Piotr Müller (PiS, Government spokesman and Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister) - 72,813 votes in Słupsk (#26)
28. Jan Grabiec (KO, 2-term Member of the Sejm) - 71,534 votes in Warszawa II (#20)
29. Anna Pieczarka (PiS, Member of the Sejm) - 71,199 votes in Tarnów (#15)
30. Maria Koc (PiS, Senator for the 47th District) - 70,732 votes in Siedlce (#18)

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KO, PL2050, PSL and Lewica signed today their coalition agreement, Tusk PM, Kosiniak-Kamysz (PSL) and Gawkowski (Lewica) will be Deputy PM, Hołownia (PL2050) and Czarzasty (Lewica) may turn chairs at the Marshal/Speaker of Sejm (Szymon the first two years), KO gets the Marshal/Speaker of the Senate but will also change in the middle of the term. Lewica party member Razem it's likely to stay in confidence and support rather than join the government.  The complete composition of the cabinet it's still unknown until Morawiecki' encharge fails.

https://twitter.com/Politics_Poland/status/1723004213511241761

Brief summary by this Twitter/X thread:
https://twitter.com/anietotylkoja/status/1722981668091269334

Security
-State security based on three pillars: reconstruction of international relations, Poland's strong position in the EU, and in NATO
-Army equipped with modern hardware (continuation of the Law and Justice party's rearmament policy)
-Civil defence reconstruction.

Judiciary
-Courts free from political pressure
-Legitimacy of the judiciary and the constitutional courts
-National Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court in apolitical shape
-Reduced time and lower costs of court proceedings

Health
-Increased spending on public health care system
-Debt relief mechanisms for hospitals
-Universal psychological and psychiatric assistance funded by the state
-Increased role of Primary Health Care facilities
-Shortened queues for specialist doctors

Education
-Increased spending on education
-Healthy food in school cafeterias
-Curriculum reform, increased emphasis on English
-Less homework for kids
-Psychological care in every school
-More autonomy for schools
-Politics out of school, more emphasis on values such as modern patriotism, openness, human rights and the richness of Polish culture
-Science and higher education require changes that ensure, among other things, depoliticization, restoration of university autonomy and higher levels of funding.

Women's rights
- Constitutional Court's 2020 verdict on restricting abortion overturned
-Financial support for couples planning to have a baby by funding the IVF procedure and full access to free prenatal testing
-Access to free anaesthesia (during childbirth, I guess)
-Expansion of nurseries
-Additional financial support for women returning to work after maternity leave

Equality
-No to hate speech and acts of agression
-Protection of sexual minorities from hate speech and acts of aggression

Climate
-A stable legal framework to support a (fair) energy transition
-Increased share of renewable energy sources in electricity generation  
-Construction of nuclear power plants
-Expansion and modernization of transmission and distribution networks
- EU ETS stays, and will be used to finance the green transition
-Low energy prices to households and businesses based on healthy competition mechanisms and clear market rules (prosumer energy)

Environment
-20 percent the most valuable forest areas will be excluded from logging
-Exports of unprocessed wood will be restricted
-Social oversight of forests
-Marsh and peatland restoration program
-The area of national parks will be increased
-Renaturalization and constant supervision of river water quality

Economy
-Stable, friendly and fair tax system
-Tax cuts for working people to increase labor force participation and support families.
-Restoration of transparency over state finances
-Depoliticization of State-Owned Companies
- Introduction of clear recruitment criteria for management positions in state-owned companies
-Construction of new logistics infrastructure for farmers

Culture
-Free, depoliticized culture
-Repair and depoliticization of state-owned public media
-Separation of Church and State!
-Depoliticization of the army
- Central Anti-Corruption Bureau will be abolished, and its resources and powers transferred to other institutions

Social policy
-Housing availability will be increased
-Efficient and accessible public transport for all (govt will actively support the restoration of bus services and the development of the country's rail network)
-Financial support for disabled people and pensioners

State, political system
-Decentralization of the state
-Restoration of broad autonomy for local governments
-Money from the Next Generation EU recovery plan for local governments
- Increased involvement of NGOs in social processes

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This is just insanity: Duda wants to appoint Morawieki as prime minister today and swear-in another PiS cabinet, which subsequently has to win a confidence vote in the Sejm within 14 days. Of course, they're inevitably going to lose such a floor vote as PiS only holds 194 seats, versus 248 for Tusk's coalition.

It seems like a new tradition that right-wing governments and heads of state just no longer accept election defeats. At this point it should actually be considered to remove Duda from office. He's not acting as normal head of state but just a partisan hack that tries to keep a bunch of losers in power.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1729072716697735503

Portugal 2015 vibes unironically

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As expected, Morawiecki fails to get confidence of the Sejm: 190 For/266 Against