I wonder what the balance of political forces will look like after the elections. Every potential and conscious voter is wondering who they will vote for on October 13. Of course, I realize that every political party has its devoted supporters.

What interests me most is whom the undecided voter will support. I believe that an undecided voter will vote not for a specific political party, but against a party.

The latest political events concerning the current authorities—their excesses and rule in a truly Byzantine style—should affect the election results and change the balance of the political scene. Will that happen? Well, I think not.

This is influenced not only by the opposition’s weakness, its lack of a clearly defined program, and the absence of a distinctive, charismatic leader. In my humble opinion, all the political parties are too vague and too weak to threaten PiS.

Support for PiS is not declining despite many smaller or larger image blunders. The party openly supported by the Church is doing increasingly well, as demonstrated by its rising poll numbers.

I asked myself whether this is a phenomenon or simply the voters’ political calculation. Every pro-social program, despite increasing the state’s debt, is one of the factors that has or will have an impact on winning elections.

Is the influence of the Catholic Church on voters so great that it can indicate whom they should vote for? Should one political party or another court the Church to secure its favor? And finally, is this ethical, although the word “ethics”—ethical—is probably just a more meaningless expression. I am writing this with reference to the words of Archbishop Jędraszewski and his crusade against the “rainbow plague,” spoken during a Mass marking the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. Did the archbishop have the right to use such words?

What influence, if any, will such an attitude of the Church have on the election results? Can we answer these questions for ourselves? In reality, there is little time left before the elections. What political affairs and coalitions will emerge to survive—if only to get into parliament once again?

Are we doomed to strange coalitions? Kukiz with PSL; SLD, Razem, and Biedron’s Wiosna running on a single list—incidentally, the list bears the name of Robert Biedroń, who is not taking part in the elections to the Polish parliament because he chose a seat in the European Parliament, despite denying this before the Brussels elections and declaring that he wanted to work in Poland for Poland. Today it sounds a little like fraud, but it is, after all, only... politics.

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