Polish President Karol Nawrocki has repeatedly clashed with the Polish government since taking office. In addition, he personally participated in the controversial march of nationalists during the week. According to the expert, Nawrocký’s ambition is to create a large right-wing party.
Nawrocki joined the Independence March during the celebrations of Poland’s 107th anniversary. A number of participants of the annual event, which is organized by nationalist associations, noted the welcoming gesture of the head of state.
“I think he will represent us well abroad and be a good manager here at home,” says one of the participants in the march, Patrik.
On social networks, Nawrocki, on the other hand, presents the image of a politician from the people and at the same time collects points with future voters. On the TikTok network, for example, he published a video of how he met schoolchildren from the small village of Wolanów, a hundred kilometers from Warsaw, to accompany them to a Turkish bistro and buy them kebabs.
Disputes between the president and the prime minister
Most Poles are so far satisfied with the president’s first days in office. 53 percent of the population evaluates him positively. They also do not mind the fact that the head of state has already managed to get into a dispute with the local government several times. Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk disagreed, for example, on the appointment of judges or military officers.
“It’s not enough to win an election to be president,” Tusk said on social network X. “To be prime minister, it’s not enough to just post on X,” Nawrocki replied.
In the June elections of the country of thirty-eight million people, the conservative Nawrocki won over the liberal opponent by 350,000 votes. After the elections, he announced that he wanted to be the president of all Poles.
Nawrocký’s ambition to create a right-wing formation
According to critics, however, he has yet to succeed in filling in ditches. On the contrary, it often exceeds its powers. “He does not follow the constitution, but his political will. This is subordinated to his strategic goal, which is to put himself at the head of an unknown but large right-wing formation,” says political scientist Wawrzyniec Konarsk, who works as the rector of the Vistula Academy of Finance and Business.
In the past, another heavy weight of the political scene – Szymon Holownia – tried to form a force that would disrupt the hegemony of two strong parties (conservatives and centrist liberals).
He got his Holownia party into the government coalition, but he himself stumbled in the presidential election. This week he resigned from the post of Marshal of the Sejm and is heading to the New York headquarters of the United Nations. He would like to be the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
