#marcin banasiak

[tomorrowusa]

Is it a coincidence that the election night map on TVN24 in Poland used the colors of the Ukrainian flag to designate which party was ahead in each województwo (province)? 🙂🇺🇦🇵🇱

In any case, here are the final results from the official election authority the Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza.

The official results in the number of seats per party were amazingly close to the exit polls. While the specific number of seats per party differed slightly, the Sunday night Ipsos poll and these official results both give the three pro-democracy parties a total of 248 seats.

The official turnout (74.38%) was more than a percentage point higher than the already high exit poll estimate. This is the highest turnout since the 1989 election which saw the end of communism in Poland.

When you vote, you win.

People who have lived under authoritarianism don't need to be prodded into voting.

Tim Mak is an American journalist in Ukraine. He tells about Marcin Banasiak, a Polish citizen who is doing humanitarian work in Eastern Ukraine. Long story short: Just to vote in Sunday's election, Marcin spent 26 hours traveling from Kharkiv to Warsaw. That required traveling almost the entire length of Ukraine and then over to Warsaw via the border city of Chełm.

Read Tim's account of Marcin's vote quest at Mastodon.

If Marcin can spend 26 hours (traveling one way) to help rescue democracy in Poland, we should not complain about the minor inconveniences related to voting in the US.

American historian and journalist Anne Applebaum lives in Poland with her husband Radek Sikorski who happens to be an MEP and former cabinet member in the previous Donald Tusk government. In The Atlantic (archived) on Monday she wrote about what led to the pro-democracy victory at the polls.

[A]bout 73 percent of Poles voted across the country, far more than the number that voted in 1989, and in some places the turnout was higher than 80 percent. In Warsaw, Gdansk, Lublin, and Wroclaw, as well as some European cities, voters stood in line for many hours, polling stations ran out of ballots, and some people were able to vote only long after the polls had been scheduled to close. At one Warsaw polling station near midnight, an election worker wept on live television, thanking her compatriots for showing up in such large numbers. How did they do it? Anger is a powerful emotion, and over the past year, PiS made a lot of people angry. Repeated PiS corruption scandals—corruption being one of the inevitable results of politicized judges, police, and prosecutors—certainly helped the opposition. So did high inflation, partly created by PiS’s decision to spend heavily on social programs as the election approached. So did the decision by PKN Orlen, a state-owned oil company, to lower gasoline prices in advance of the vote, thereby causing shortages around the country, as well as general mockery. But this turnout was produced by positive emotions too. Donald Tusk, the leader of the Civic Coalition, pointedly used the language of civic patriotism rather than angry nationalism. Thousands of volunteers came together to organize election-monitoring teams. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in two major demonstrations in Warsaw, carrying Polish and European Union flags; others joined a series of big public meetings around the country.

The new government, when it assumes office, won't be perfect – because no humans are perfect. But it will be enormously better. And similar to Democrats in the US after Trump, the presumed three-party coalition in Poland will spend a lot of time repairing democratic institutions degraded by PiS.

[the-ophanim]

BOKKA - Answer Me [Director’s Cut] (Official Video) (2016) from Katarzyna Sawicka on Vimeo.

music video ----- 2017 - Music Video Competition / SXSW Film Festival, USA 2016 - Best Editor Nomination / YACH Film Festival for Polish Videoclips, Poland 2016 - Official Selection / Apex Short Film & Music Video Festival, USA 2016 - Official Selection / Simply Shorts Film Festival, Australia 2016 - Official Selection / Roma Creative Contest, Italy 2016 - Official Selection / Festival International de Música No Cinema, Portugal ----- director / KATARZYNA SAWICKA executive producer / KONSTANCJA SAWICKA / KATARZYNA SAWICKA cast / MALWINA KRUPA / PETER SAND MAGNUSSEN / WOJCIECH JASTRZĘBSKI / ERI MIZUTANI / GOKHAN IPEKKAN / KUBA ROGALA cinematographer / ADAM ROMANOWSKI set designer & costumes / ANNA NOWACKA make-up / MAŁGORZATA FLORKÓW editor / KATARZYNA SAWICKA vfx / MATEUSZ KUKŁA color grading / ADAM ROMANOWSKI skateboard camera operator / PRZEMEK JĘKOSZ 1st ac / ADAM ZAPART / PAWEŁ GRABAREK transportation & production runner / PAULINA PATURA extras / BARTOSZ BEDNARZ / KAMIL BANASIAK / NATALIA DURSZEWICZ / KLARA KAMIŃSKA / ELIZA MICHALSKA / ALICJA ROMANOWSKA / MAŁGORZATA WÓJCIK

music & lyrics / BOKKA (Nextpop Label)

special thanks: LINDA PATELA / SZYBY I LUSTRA / AGNIESZKA KONARSKA / EDGAR GRISZCZUK / KACPER ZIĘBA / CARLOS LÓPEZ ESTRADA / ARTHUR IZAKOWICZ / STANISŁAW SAWICKI / EWA RADZEWICZ / TOMEK KOLAK / RENATA SAWICKA / IZABELA & SŁAWOMIR ROMANOWSCY / JOANNA & MARCIN SAWICCY

[alinanilsson]

BOKKA - Answer Me [Director’s Cut] (Official Video) (2016) from Katarzyna Sawicka on Vimeo.

music video ----- 2017 - Music Video Competition / SXSW Film Festival, USA 2016 - Best Editor Nomination / YACH Film Festival for Polish Videoclips, Poland 2016 - Official Selection / Apex Short Film & Music Video Festival, USA 2016 - Official Selection / Simply Shorts Film Festival, Australia 2016 - Official Selection / Roma Creative Contest, Italy 2016 - Official Selection / Festival International de Música No Cinema, Portugal ----- director / KATARZYNA SAWICKA executive producer / KONSTANCJA SAWICKA / KATARZYNA SAWICKA cast / MALWINA KRUPA / PETER SAND MAGNUSSEN / WOJCIECH JASTRZĘBSKI / ERI MIZUTANI / GOKHAN IPEKKAN / KUBA ROGALA cinematographer / ADAM ROMANOWSKI set designer & costumes / ANNA NOWACKA make-up / MAŁGORZATA FLORKÓW editor / KATARZYNA SAWICKA vfx / MATEUSZ KUKŁA color grading / ADAM ROMANOWSKI skateboard camera operator / PRZEMEK JĘKOSZ 1st ac / ADAM ZAPART / PAWEŁ GRABAREK transportation & production runner / PAULINA PATURA extras / BARTOSZ BEDNARZ / KAMIL BANASIAK / NATALIA DURSZEWICZ / KLARA KAMIŃSKA / ELIZA MICHALSKA / ALICJA ROMANOWSKA / MAŁGORZATA WÓJCIK

music & lyrics / BOKKA (Nextpop Label)

special thanks: LINDA PATELA / SZYBY I LUSTRA / AGNIESZKA KONARSKA / EDGAR GRISZCZUK / KACPER ZIĘBA / CARLOS LÓPEZ ESTRADA / ARTHUR IZAKOWICZ / STANISŁAW SAWICKI / EWA RADZEWICZ / TOMEK KOLAK / RENATA SAWICKA / IZABELA & SŁAWOMIR ROMANOWSCY / JOANNA & MARCIN SAWICCY

[marcindziak]

www.fuckingyoung.es/marcin

[madeinparisss]

[the-ophanim]

BOKKA - Answer Me [Director’s Cut] (Official Video) (2016) from Katarzyna Sawicka on Vimeo.

music video ----- Nowness Staff Pick - 2017 - Music Video Competition / SXSW Film Festival, USA 2016 - Best Editor Nomination / YACH Film Festival for Polish Videoclips, Poland 2016 - Official Selection / Apex Short Film & Music Video Festival, USA 2016 - Official Selection / Simply Shorts Film Festival, Australia 2016 - Official Selection / Roma Creative Contest, Italy 2016 - Official Selection / Festival International de Música No Cinema, Portugal ----- director / KATARZYNA SAWICKA executive producer / KONSTANCJA SAWICKA / KATARZYNA SAWICKA cast / MALWINA KRUPA / PETER SAND MAGNUSSEN / WOJCIECH JASTRZĘBSKI / ERI MIZUTANI / GOKHAN IPEKKAN / KUBA ROGALA cinematographer / ADAM ROMANOWSKI set designer & costumes / ANNA NOWACKA make-up / MAŁGORZATA FLORKÓW editor / KATARZYNA SAWICKA vfx / MATEUSZ KUKŁA color grading / ADAM ROMANOWSKI skateboard camera operator / PRZEMEK JĘKOSZ 1st ac / ADAM ZAPART / PAWEŁ GRABAREK transportation & production runner / PAULINA PATURA extras / BARTOSZ BEDNARZ / KAMIL BANASIAK / NATALIA DURSZEWICZ / KLARA KAMIŃSKA / ELIZA MICHALSKA / ALICJA ROMANOWSKA / MAŁGORZATA WÓJCIK

music & lyrics / BOKKA (Nextpop Label)

special thanks: LINDA PATELA / SZYBY I LUSTRA / AGNIESZKA KONARSKA / EDGAR GRISZCZUK / KACPER ZIĘBA / CARLOS LÓPEZ ESTRADA / ARTHUR IZAKOWICZ / STANISŁAW SAWICKI / EWA RADZEWICZ / TOMEK KOLAK / RENATA SAWICKA / IZABELA & SŁAWOMIR ROMANOWSCY / JOANNA & MARCIN SAWICCY