A FUNDAMENTAL RESET OF THE STATE, UNCOMPROMISING ACCOUNTABILITY AND AN END TO THE IMPUNITY OF THE RULING CASTE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S COMMENT OF THE DAY
A FUNDAMENTAL RESET OF THE STATE, UNCOMPROMISING ACCOUNTABILITY AND AN END TO THE IMPUNITY OF THE RULING CASTE
Author: Mieczysław Dzikowski – Editor-in-Chief
Thirty-seven years of systemic transformation in Poland have produced a pathological system in which power has become a tool for political parties to enrich themselves with impunity, while the citizen has been reduced to the role of a powerless taxpayer. The rule of law cannot exist when a politician, judge, prosecutor or official bears no financial or criminal liability whatsoever for flagrant violations of the Constitution, corruption, omissions and errors that ruin millions of people. At the same time, the mechanism for staffing State Treasury companies and public institutions has created a parasitic oligarchic network in which state and local-government posts are treated as party sinecures.
Façade institutions and the illusion of the separation of powers
For decades the public was told that immunities, separate disciplinary tribunals and multi-tier protective procedures serve the independence of state bodies. In practice they have become an iron curtain shielding official crime, nepotism and the open disregard of substantive law. While an ordinary citizen pays with everything they own for the slightest mistake in dealings with the tax authorities, political decision-makers who squander billions of zloty from the State Treasury, or judges and prosecutors who falsify procedures, remain beyond the reach of any real sanction. This glaring injustice has destroyed trust in the state and led to a public apathy on which the authoritarian ambitions of successive governing teams feed.
An end to milking the national wealth and to political cronyism
The politicisation of companies in which the State Treasury holds shares, and of special-purpose funds, is one of the gravest sins of the Third Polish Republic. Instead of building the country's innovative and economic potential, strategic companies have been turned into party cash machines financing election campaigns, fictitious expert reports and the private fortunes of party apparatchiks. Meanwhile, transfers from the state budget to religious structures and the lack of transparency in how MPs and senators spend public allowances and mileage claims have entrenched the conviction that an untouchable caste exists. It is time to put a definitive end to this – public property must serve the sovereign people alone, and every zloty spent by those living off the state must be subject to direct, open and uncompromising scrutiny by citizens.
20 ALGOOMNI as a constitutional pact for Poland
No change of personnel at the top of power will repair the Republic as long as this rotten systemic mechanism remains intact. We need a hard, irreversible and uncompromising reset. Introducing personal financial liability for public officials, abolishing immunities, a two-term limit, a ban on political defections and direct democracy in the form of a binding referendum with no turnout threshold are not negotiating positions – they are the sine qua non for Poland's survival as a sovereign state governed by the rule of law. We consistently publish the following 20 pillars of ALGOOMNI in every edition as a declaration of the fight for a free, honest and law-abiding Republic.
20 ALGOOMNI
FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR THE RULE OF LAW, DEMOCRACY, EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW AND CIVIC SOVEREIGNTY
(Open civic forum: Updated weekly with new points added. Send your proposals to: biuro@algoomni.com or via the portal www.algoomni.com)
THE SANCTITY OF EVERY VOTE
Every vote cast is the highest, direct and inviolable mandate of the sovereign people in the state. No digital algorithm, no politicised electoral commission and no backroom party deal has the right to annul, falsify, distort or ignore the will of the citizens. Transparency, physical verifiability and public scrutiny of the electoral process at every stage form the inviolable foundation of the Republic's existence.
A RECOUNT OF THE VOTES AND AN INSPECTION OF THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The absolute necessity of a comprehensive inspection by a commission and a fresh, 100% open and publicly broadcast recount of all ballot papers from the 2025 presidential election. Taking up the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland in the shadow of procedural machinations, amid the paralysis of supervisory bodies and the staggering passivity of the authorities of the time, was a breach of the constitutional order that requires the material truth to be fully established.
HOLDING PIS TO ACCOUNT – AN UNCOMPROMISING “ZERO OPTION”
Full, uncompromising criminal, constitutional and financial liability for the systematic destruction of the legal order, the dismantling of the separation of powers and the unlawful transfers of public funds during the years of PiS rule. A rejection of any rotten compromises, political deals or preferential treatment – every scandal, embezzlement and act of lawlessness must be judged right down to the very bottom.
HOLDING THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT TO ACCOUNT FOR ITS OMISSIONS AND FAILURE TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS
A government that received a democratic mandate to restore the rule of law but, for the sake of conformism, political calculation and a quiet life, chose procrastination and the sin of omission must bear unequivocal political responsibility. The failure to settle accounts firmly will take its revenge at the ballot box and open the way to a constitutional relapse by anti-democratic forces.
THE COMPLETE ABOLITION OF IMMUNITIES
The definitive abolition of parliamentary, judicial, prosecutorial and official immunities. All citizens without exception must be 100% equal before the law and answer to the same common courts. The institution of immunity has been completely perverted, becoming a pathological shield protecting corruption, ordinary crime, abuse of power and the impunity of the elites.
A MANDATORY TWO-TERM LIMIT IN ALL BODIES
The introduction of a hard limit of no more than two terms (counted over a lifetime) for MPs, senators, city mayors, town mayors, municipal heads and the heads of state agencies and central offices. An end to a professional caste of politicians welded to their seats for decades and to the creation of entrenched bureaucratic clans preying on citizens' wealth.
MANDATORY TOXICOLOGY TESTS FOR THOSE IN THE HIGHEST OFFICES
Mandatory, independent and random laboratory tests (blood, urine, hair) carried out every 3 months for the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, ministers, deputy ministers, MPs, senators and the heads of state institutions. Refusal to undergo testing or a positive result means immediate and automatic removal from office. Those who decide on the security and fate of the nation must be fully of sound mind, responsible and free from chemical dependency.
A CITIZENS' CONSTITUTION WITH FIXED DEADLINES
The new Basic Law must be written directly by citizens and independent experts, not by politicians and law firms looking after their own impunity. The absolute elimination of discretionary, elastic wording such as “without delay” or “within a reasonable time” and its replacement with precise calendar days, on pain of an official or judge automatically losing their post if the deadlines are exceeded.
STRICT ORDER OF RECEIPT IN COURTS AND OFFICES
A statutory, absolute requirement to process and examine cases according to the exact date, minute and hour of their receipt by courts, prosecutors' offices and public administration offices. A final end to “freezers” for cases inconvenient to those in power, to the political favouring of court lists, to picking cases at the dictate of vested interests and to the deliberate dragging out of proceedings until they become time-barred.
FULL DISCLOSURE OF THE LIST OF THOSE ILLEGALLY SURVEILLED WITH DIGITAL SYSTEMS
The immediate publication of a full, open and complete register of all persons surveilled with cyberweapons (Pegasus, Hermes, Predator, Feng and similar). The public and public figures have an inalienable right to know who was wiretapped, blackmailed, manipulated and destroyed through covert operations while strategic state and economic decisions were being made.
FULL CRIMINAL, CIVIL AND FINANCIAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS, JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS
The introduction of full, personal criminal, civil and financial liability (with all present and future private assets) for the president, prime ministers, ministers, MPs, senators, municipal heads, mayors, councillors and state officials, and without exception for judges and prosecutors, for knowingly violating the Constitution, corruption, fabricating evidence, issuing unlawful decisions and judgments, gross omissions and errors causing losses to the State Treasury or harm to citizens. An end to hiding with impunity behind a judicial robe, an immunity or an office stamp – for lawlessness and damage, those in power, judges and prosecutors must pay out of their own pockets and answer criminally like every other citizen.
A TOTAL BAN ON HOLDING MULTIPLE POSTS AND ON SITTING ON THE BOARDS OF STATE TREASURY COMPANIES
A radical, absolute ban on ministers, deputy ministers, senior state and local-government officials, MPs, senators, municipal heads, mayors, city mayors and councillors sitting on the management boards, supervisory boards and advisory bodies of State Treasury companies, municipal companies and government agencies (together with a 5-year cooling-off period after leaving office). A final severing of the pathology of party cronyism, nepotism and the milking of state assets by political appointees.
AN ABSOLUTE BAN ON SWITCHING PARLIAMENTARY CLUBS AND COUNCIL GROUPS (A BAN ON POLITICAL TOURISM)
The mandate of an MP, senator or councillor is bound to the will of the voters as expressed on the electoral committee's list. Leaving one's club, moving to another grouping or political corruption of the mandate results in the automatic expiry of the mandate and replacement by the next person on the electoral list. An end to trafficking in citizens' votes in parliament and local government.
MANDATORY ATTENDANCE AT VOTES AND SITTINGS ON PAIN OF LOSING ONE'S MANDATE
The work of a parliamentarian or councillor is a strict official duty towards the sovereign people. Unexcused absence from sittings of the Sejm, the Senate, committees or key votes exceeding 10% in a quarter results in the automatic loss of the mandate by operation of law, with no right to severance pay or a parliamentary pension.
FULL TRANSPARENCY OF SPENDING: ALLOWANCES, MILEAGE CLAIMS AND OFFICES SETTLED EXCLUSIVELY BY PAYMENT CARD
A total ban on cash, lump-sum and advance-payment settlements in parliamentary and local-government activity. All office expenses, expert reports, hotels, business travel and mileage claims must be paid exclusively with a personal official card linked to an open online register of spending accessible to every citizen in real time. Every attempt to fraudulently claim mileage means an immediate referral to the prosecutor.
AN END TO “SACRED COWS”: THE SAME LAW FOR POLITICIANS, JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, THE SECURITY SERVICES AND JOURNALISTS
Equal law for all, without caste privileges. The abolition of separate procedures, immunities, secret disciplinary courts and networks protecting politicians, prosecutors, judges, special-service officers and the journalists linked to them. Every crime, act of obstruction, fabrication of intelligence material or paid media protection will be tried in open proceedings before a jury.
SYSTEMIC PROTECTION AND STRICT COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT OF FORMER SPECIAL-SERVICE OFFICERS
Special-service officers (AW, ABW, SKW, SWW, CBA) with knowledge of state secrets cannot be abandoned on the open market as easy prey for foreign intelligence services and criminal groups. The introduction of a 10-year ban on working for foreign entities and in sensitive sectors (cryptocurrencies, finance, gambling), combined with fair state remuneration for analytical work and permanent counter-intelligence protection.
COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY AND A BLOCK ON INFILTRATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
Every draft law, regulation and amendment must have an open, digital register of its authors by full name, together with a lobbying footprint. An absolute ban on laws being written by outside law firms and lobbyists linked to foreign capital. All attempts to block anti-corruption and anti-money-laundering legislation to be treated as diplomatic treason.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE AND AN END TO FUNDING RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES FROM THE BUDGET
The immediate abolition of the Church Fund, taxation of the income of religious associations on general terms and an absolute ban on handing over State Treasury and local-government property for next to nothing. Religious associations may be funded exclusively from voluntary tax allocations by the faithful (a voluntary church tax).
A CITIZENS' VETO AND A BINDING REFERENDUM WITH NO TURNOUT THRESHOLD
Restoring real power to the sovereign people: a motion backed by 500,000 citizens' signatures obliges the Sejm to call a nationwide referendum whose result is absolutely binding on the state authorities, with no possibility of applying a turnout threshold. The executive and legislative authorities are prohibited from overriding the will of the nation expressed in a referendum.