NEWS

08/11/2019

09:21

Paruch:

PiS Consistently Strengthens Prime Minister's Office Following Leadership Changes

Michał Olech

- Typically, since the change in the prime minister's office, when Mateusz Morawiecki replaced Beata Szydło, PiS has been strengthening the role and significance of the Prime Minister's Chancellery as a supporting body for the prime minister. This is a certain trend that has been visible in democratic countries' politics since the late 1970s, actually. It's not a trend of the 21st century. The aim is to strengthen the prime minister's importance in the context of individual ministers - stated Waldemar Paruch in an interview with Marcin Fijołek on Poranek Siódma9. He added:

"To a large extent, yes [Prime Minister Morawiecki is to be strengthened in terms of daily work, oversight, in the model of a chancellor system]. Because a certain problem in Poland, and a very complex one, is the low transfer of knowledge into politics. And this transfer is on two levels. One has been managed relatively easily, perhaps much faster. The transfer of knowledge at the level of general politics, which involves winning elections. PiS has proven several times that it can excellently, very well utilize knowledge to win elections. This began in 2015 with the presidential elections. However, there is still a second level of knowledge transfer. The transfer of knowledge to public policies, meaning how to use knowledge from social sciences, economics, law, and even history, when constructing individual public policies. Changes like this, to limit ourselves to Europe, such moves in this direction were made by Tony Blair's government."

- This increases the efficiency of politicians. It creates the possibility of being credible in politics. One can make electoral promises that can be fulfilled within a measurable timeframe - he emphasized.


Michał Olech