Privatization was to go hand in hand with decentralization. The process was started by the governments of Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Jan Bielecki, which preceded Suchocka's, and her government planned to finish it. There were three motivations for decentral ization. First, it would create non-political civil servants. Second, since Polish society is a rather passive society because its citizens were raised under communism, decentralization would make people more politically active.
Third decentralization creates the basis for local self-governance and democracy.
Professor Suchocka is currently in a major opposition party, The Freedom Union. She says Poland needs local self-governance on higher levels than just community. Suchocka's earlier views for the future were of hopes and misgivings, but now she sees paradoxes. She cites the constitution and trade unions as two examples. She noted that Poland has an amended, but not a new, constitution.