Former Polish Prime Minister's choice - independence or subservience
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Poland's former Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the most popular politician in Poland, recently lost the election for president of the city of Warsaw, Poland. The current Prime Minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, one of the most unpopular Polish politicians, has invited Marcinkiewicz to return to the Polish Government in some position. Marcinkiewicz must now choose whether to use his popular support to launch his own independent political career or subvert his will and ideas to Kaczynski.
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Marcinkiewicz's loss in the recent elections may have been the result of some Kaczynski factor that drove people away from him. Analysts of the election have tended to make some specific comments about what drove the electorate away from Marcinkiewicz but in general they all point towards some negative influence in some form or another associated with Kaczynski.
Marcinkiewicz has in the past said that some way to find peace with the opposition party Civic Platform must be found. This attitude differs drastically with that of Kaczynski who continues to accuse Civic Platform of aggressively attacking Kaczynski ' s party Law and Justice.
It would appear that were Marcinkiewicz to go back into the Kaczynski government the relationship between the two, which some say is not the best now, would deteriorate if Marcinkiewicz continued to maintain his high profile personal public relations program that is so characteristic of his approach to politics and if he continued to espouse some form of peace between the Law and Justice Party and Civic Platform.
Another development must be considered. Kaczynski has also offered that he might take Civic Platform leader Jan Rokita into the government were he to leave the Civic Platform.
But it was not long ago that Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland and the Prime Minister's twin brother, said Jan Rokita was guilty of crimes against democracy and a crime worse than murder because he, in their opinion, was behind, or knew of, Secret Service spying on political parties of the right during the 1990's. See Polish Grudge
Rokita, who appears to have some difficulties with members of the Civic Platform lately, could possibly work with Marcinkiewicz to set up a new political club that might be able to control the Polish Government.
Marcinkiewicz might choose to look at the long term. If he feels that Kaczynski is nothing more than a weight around his neck and that Kaczynski's long-term prospects are not good, it might be time for Marcinkiewicz to choose independence rather than to go back into the Government to work as a loyal servant of Kaczynski.
Marcinkiewicz's decision is an important decision that will have an immediate impact on the longevity of the Polish Government. His choice is more than personal.
