Two weeks after the election, a surprising coalition was formed in Bolesławiec County. Law and Justice will govern together with Platforma Samorządowa (the name used for the election), which included people associated with Civic Platform.
Jarosław Duda told PAP that Karol Stasik, who formed the coalition, did not have authorization from the Civic Platform regional board to establish such cooperation. Stasik himself explains his bizarre decision to hand the county over to Law and Justice in a letter sent to the media. He chooses his words carefully, writing, among other things, that not all Platforma Samorządowa voters will share his view.
Stasik is right to fear the reaction of his voters, who, by voting for Stasik, were voting for a member of Civic Platform, which, as Duda reports, Stasik left immediately after forming the coalition.
Unfortunately, this is how the county works. It is not the voters who decide who runs it. What matters is how the councillor chosen by the people manages to come to an arrangement with the others. Stasik, of course, insists that he did it solely and exclusively for the good of the county, for the people, for the voters, and absolutely not for himself. But after what he did, it is difficult to trust him.
Are we dealing here with the Bolesławiec Underwood from the series House of Cards, that is, Stasik, who so cleverly exploited the mechanisms of democracy and the power of political arrangements that he achieved his own particular goal?