I’d like to introduce to you to a rather twisted election situation that happened in Poland. The Poles were waiting for the presidential election which was to take place on 10th May, unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Polish government was not prepared for such complications. There were many ideas on how to deal with this problem, yet none of them was realized by the ubiquitous chaos.

The first solution to the problem announced by the ruling party was to hold correspondence elections, which means that every inhabitant of Poland entitled to vote was to receive a ballot paper by mail and then the postman would collect the results. There have been a number of inconsistencies with this approach to the subject. Firstly, postmen could interfere with the number of votes. And if this argument is not convincing, the fact that the COVID-19 can be spread on paper cannot be overlooked. Due to people’s panic caused by the fear of being infected by the virus and the shortcomings of the government, the expected elections were not held. However, this leaves us with one problem, which is that the government invested 20 million zlotys in printing ballots for elections that did not take place. As in Polish politics, it makes no sense to look for the guilty party because the ruling party blames the opposition and the opposition blames the ruling party.

I believe that this whole situation could be solved if both the rulers and the opposition focused on the security of the citizens and not on coming to power and pulling the dirty on each other. I believe that the biggest problem for our politicians is their unwillingness to discuss.

Do you think that the ruling party should be punished for throwing public money away? Maybe you have some idea that would solve the whole problem. Have your say!