Walruzja Tygodniowo | Valruzia WeeklyOUR INTERVIEW: Karczewski on past coalition and future plansNowogard, 6 April, 4465
Dominik Karczewski has led the Reforma for nine months, having replaced Celina Salko in July 4464; before, he had been the Minister for Industry and Trade in the first Weißberg Cabinet.Walruzja Tygodniowo: At political rallies, when delivering speeches, you seem to be sure that the Reforma will manage to co-create a cabinet after the election. However, there are claims that you have failed as a coalitiant.Dominik Karczewski: That was not us failing, we did our job well, but the left, failing to lead the country in a decent way, failing to enact reforms that would actually help the citizens, not make it harder to prosper...
The economy did recover under the present coalition.Despite the government actions, not thanks to them! Under a proper, reasonable cabinet, the crisis would have ended much earlier, I assume in two years after the outbreak. The policies forced by the Social Democrats, and so willingly supported by the NPR, were not pro-economy ones. If our opposition to the politicization of banks, the politicization of many Valruzian businesses, opposition to raising the taxes on all Valruzians, if that's why we were thrown away from the coalition... Well, we would oppose these things again. We will always oppose hurtful policies.
Some say that what you were thrown away for was you inability to undertake any government-induced recovery actions.Well, we did act! We had our projects, made investments, improved our spending, we had plans for more and what the NPR claims, that we did nothing, it is an obvious lie. Still, the direction they decide to take when throwing us and the RL out... Bad actions are worse than no actions. Their actions were clearly bad. Every economist knows that nationalization of economy leads to inefficiency and, in a long term, to misery.
So with whom do you want to make a cabinet? Not the SW, not the NPR, also not Razem, I suppose?These people, they only want power, offices, they care about their offices more than about the country. The Razemists, they were criticising the nationalisation plans just as we were criticising it. The critique ended once the NPR made an advantageous offer. Such a big U-turn, this is unbelievable, their voters will not forget it. Razem claims to be liberal, but their liberalism is opportunistic and unreliable, and it is hard to cooperate with such people.
So I ask again - cooperation with whom, when you exclude both the center left and the center right?Have you perhaps just called the NPR center right? There is nothing centrist about them, neither do they anything right. Deciding what we can wear and what things we can express, what we can watch, this is no longer a normally "conservative" thinking but much closer to fascism. Let's not be afraid to say that. And there is nothing centrist in supporting the idea that politicians should take control over everything in our economy, supporting this control without reason, without thinking about the consequences first. We need the kind of reasonable and pro-freedom thinking. The libertarian bloc has just been prognosed 40% of votes in a "Zoon Polliticon" poll. We strongly believe that we will form the next government, ourselves or with the help of any other pro-freedom political forces.
These forty percents, it is not a usual result you get in the polls. Also, your own Reforma's members seem to lose confidence in a success of your structures. Piotr Skorny and his wing, who have just left...We don't care about Skorny, he just as opportunist as Razem, let him join them.
Was anything wrong with Salko's leadership that you had decided to run against her and replace her?No, she did amazing job, we owe a lot to her, as a party but also as a country, when she managed to successfully fight some wrongs of the anti-freedom side... She was also great in leading the diplomacy, back in Zaworny's administration, tracing a new, better path for our foreign policy. Hopefully, especially now when the Consortium threat rises and we have to fight it back, she will have her chance to deal with foreign affairs again. Both in the foreign matters and the domestic ones, we need the hope back, we need the voices of reason, freedom, prosperity, to return.