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chief executive.
Agreed, that's an americanism, but he is head of state. There is no one universally ideal model for everyone. Parliamentary democracy at present just does not work in some ex-Soviet Central Asian republics where government is in the hands of traditional clans.
Poland's 1921 hyper-parliamentary constitution led not to substantive debate but to chaos, fisticuffs and disturbances requiring police intervention. It required the relatively mild 1926 coup d'état and the 1935 constitution to remedy the anarchy and contain widespread security threats (Soviet subversives, Nazi Fifth Column, Ukrainian terrorists, etc.),
Narutowicz was supported by a broad section of Polish society
He was elecetd by the Naitonal Assembly not by popular vote, and there were no surveys back then showing whether the public supported someone.
His professional credentials may have been OK, but the vibes he sent out did not gel with the nation as a whole. You can try to impose your subejctive personal views and prejudices (liberalism, agnositcism, anticlericalism, cosmopolitanism, etc.) on 1920s Poland, but that will always be an ethnically, culturally, politically and religiously alien entity to an outsider of foreign stock.