Editing Gabriel Narutowicz (section)

==Presidency==
Gabriel Narutowicz served as president of Poland for a mere five days.<ref>Richard M. Watt, ''Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918 to 1939'', p. 168.</ref> During his oath of office ceremony on 11 December 1922, members of the [[National Democracy (Poland)|National Democracy]] and others manifested their opposition against the president-elect with anti-government demonstrations in [[Warsaw]]. Earlier on that day, opponents of his election attempted to prevent the president-elect from entering the [[Sejm]] by blocking the streets and throwing mud at his motorcade. Narutowicz was never comfortable with the widespread belief that he was a representative of [[Left-wing politics|the Left]] in Polish politics. He had only become the candidate of the Polish Peasant Party "Wyzwolenie" by happenstance; he had also not expected to win the election (in its first-round Narutowicz gained just 62 votes whereas Count Zamoyski had 222).<ref name="president.pl"/>

During his first days after his taking the oath of office, Gabriel Narutowicz met with the representatives of the Christian Democratic Party and Cardinal [[Aleksander Kakowski]]. Narutowicz realized that it would be impossible to form a majority government in the Parliament, so he made an attempt to create a government beyond the purview of parliament. As a gesture to the [[Right-wing politics|right wing]], he offered the post of [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] to his rival Zamoyski.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rp.pl/Historia/312109963-Narutowicz--prezydent-ktory-chcial-jednoczyc.html |title=Narutowicz – prezydent, który chciał jednoczyć |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>