Kaczynski And Tusk
Votes Against
Polish Elections Are About Who Is Against The Most In Poland
Warsaw, Poland 18 October 2007 The Polish voters are being asked to vote against people and policies as Poland's political parties spend their time squabbling rather than giving the people something to vote for.
The Prime Minister's party is asking for votes so that it can continue on its quest to eliminate corruption. It is promoting its stance against business elite, communist supporters, real and purported, and an elusive network of business people and politicians who have directed Poland's path since 1989. The main theme is to destroy those who ran Poland's Third Republic and rebuild Poland with a Fourth Republic modeled on their sense of morality.
Prime Minister Kaczynski has based his strategy on getting the vote of those who feel that they have been left out of the transition that started in 1989 and the basic hatreds that they still sway their actions. That base is mainly located in the Catholic rural areas.
His followers such as loyalist Antoni Macierewicz beat the drum of hatred for him.
According to Macierewicz, "The Soviets are still eating away at our country. We must snatch the country from their claws! Only the Kaczynskis' party can do this!"
Kaczynski is also allowing Priest Taduesz Rydzyk's of Radio Maryja to do as he wishes to turn the vote out for him. "This is Radio Maryja, the Catholic voice in your home," the station reminds listeners on the hour, as it serves up a fare of live masses, prayers, slanted news, plus occasional anti-Semitic outbursts by presenters which have gone unpunished by justice authorities or Poland's media watchdog. " http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/071015/8/21ws.html Poland's ultra-Catholic radio is vote-winner for power twins
Rydzyk's listener base is extremely loyal and receptive to conspiracy theories. Some still believe that the communists are active in Poland such as a woman who called Radio Maryja and said "The communists assassinated priests, and today the liberals want to kill Rydzyk,"
According to Jaroslaw Zbieranek, a political scientist at Poland's Institute of Public Affairs. "By betting on Radio Maryja, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has opted for highly pragmatic strategy. The radio's supporters are disciplined and always turn out to vote."
And Kaczynskis's people are highlighting their march against corruption by trumpeting another entrapment scheme that enticed a Civic Platform into bribery. Poland's rulers under fire over anti-graft campaign.
The Civic Platform is currently a Government Opposition party. And it is continuing in that role by running a campaign of opposition rather than a campaign of optimism and plans.
With its primary support base among the young and business communities in the cities, the Civic Platform has done little to stress any platform planks beneficial to these groups. It seems that it is more important to Civic Platform to portray Kaczynski, an unmarried 58-year-old who lives with his mother, deposits his money in her bank account because he doesn't have one of his own, and has no driver's license, as an odd duck, or bad duck, out of touch with the world around him.
The issues it has chosen to highlight in its efforts to do this are rather mundane. For example, during the television debate between Civic Platform Leader Donald Tusk and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, it was important for Tusk to show that Kaczynski did not know how much the price of chicken and potatoes have risen.
As one commentator to this news service said, "…the election is bereft of any in depth discussion of the real issues facing Poland. It is simply a bunch of 'small boys' fighting about meaningless things like who's mother is prettier. No one has endeavored to establish their specific positions on any single issue except PIS with it's anti corruption stance. A vapid bunch of politicians at best."
The election campaign is essentially finished. The people go to the voting stations on Sunday and are waiting only for a last minute bombshell attack by one of the parties against the other.
Some expect that an attack will come on Saturday from someone in the Government or the President who uses his position to get last minute press coverage of an issue that can affect the vote.
There is little anticipation about anything positive. With nothing positive having been emphasized, the people will just go to the polls and vote against the something that someone told them about the other side.
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