Piłsudski initially encouraged Narutowicz to decline the nomination, but he eventually accepted, stating, "I do not want to put forth my candidacy by if Emancipation [Thugutt] decides to do it, there is nothing I can do."

Per Thugutt's speech to the Sejm, the responsibility for the events was not a political group or party, but "a certain legal-political theory" that "every Pole-citizen (Polish: Polak-obywatel) has the sacred right to act over and above the Constitution".

This contrasted with the repeated, specific claims in the 1922 right-wing press that ethnically non-Polish citizens of Poland had no right to participate in the political process, also known as the Doctrine of Polish Majority that had been formulated by the National Democrats in the lead-up to the election.

The perception was not limited by political leaning - the absence of antisemitism as a cause of Narutowicz's murder was mirrored in one of the most liberal newspapers at the time, Kurier Poranny [pl].

[6] Thugutt avoided the controversy by defining the causes of the violence in legal terms and gained support of the Sejm for his report on the issue.