In the last 20 years, Polish politics has mainly revolved around the competition and confrontation between the two main political forces in the country: the center-right "Civic Platform" party led by Donald Tusk, the current prime minister, and the conservative "Law and Justice" party led by Jaroslav Kaczynski.
Poland is a parliamentary republic and the main levers affecting the economic and social life of the country are in the hands of the Prime Minister.
But after Karol Navrotsky won the presidential elections last year with the support of the "Law and Justice" party, he made it clear that he is not ready to settle for a secondary role in the country's political system.
In practice, this issue is not limited to constant verbal arguments between the president and his staff on the one hand and the government on the other.
Navrotsky uses the veto power much more than his predecessors to stop the plans of Tusk and his government. Critics say that Nabrotsky's main political task at the moment is to block the work of the government as much as possible so that the "Civic Platform" and its allies will lose in the parliamentary elections scheduled for the fall of next year.
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