Former Deputy Prime Minister and former leader of the League of Polish Families, Roman Giertychwho has been out of politics since 2007 and is engaged in advocate activity, announced that he intends to run in the next election run for Senate from your own committee With Poznań district. He added that he hoped support of opposition groupsnegotiating under the Senate pact.
– One hundred names of candidates Senate pactwhen they are agreed between the partners, they will be presented by the leaders of the opposition parties – said the secretary general of PO Marcin Kierwinski. He noted that Negotiations for a hundred candidates are still ongoingand when they are finished, the list will be given to the leaders and they will finally approve it.
The head of the Left club also spoke about Giertych Krzysztof Gawkowski. – He announces that he will be a candidate for the Polish Senate. I don’t know who he got along with, but Certainly not with the Left. I don’t know who his promoter will be either, but Giertych is not on those lists with representatives of all parliamentary clubs, he said.
He also pointed out that “in the constituency indicated by Roman Giertych is three candidates nominated“. So that Giertych could run, the three parties would first have to withdraw their candidates from this constituency, and then someone would have to report Giertych.
The co-chairman of the Together party was even more explicit Adrian Zandbergwho stressed that “Mr. Giertych is not a candidate for the Senate pact”. – None of the parties that make up the pact admits to this candidacy. And it’s hardly surprising. The achievements of Mr. Giertych are challenging minorities from “nasty pederasts”, clericalism, the fight against the science of evolution and censorship of the school reading list – he calculated.
As Zandberg noted, “homophobia and nationalism are not views that are close to our voters.” – Is that Mr. Giertych quarreled with PiSdoesn’t change that. if Mr Black If he ever quarrels with Kaczyński, he will not become a positive hero because of it, he stressed.
Politician Together also stated that Giertych “has already realized himself politically in the PiS-LPR government”. – If he runs in violation of the Senate pact, we’ll pit him against him democratic candidacy he announced.
opinion Marek Sawickia member of the PSL, which cooperates in the elections with Poland 2050 by Szymon Hołowniaif Giertych announces that he hopes for the support of the opposition parties, “this means that he is included in this pact.” – I can’t imagine it being any other way, but it’s a free country and everyone does what they want – said the peasant’s MP.
According to Sawicki Giertych is a KO candidate and “they take him under their wing”. In turn, the leader of Poland 2050 Simon Holownia said in Polsat News that Giertych, like everyone else, has the right to run. He also confirmed that Giertych’s name appeared in Senate pact negotiations.
representatives at the end of February KO, Poland 2050, New Left, PSL and of the Local Government Movement “Yes! For Poland” signed a declaration of conclusion in the next parliamentary elections of the so-called Senate pact. It assumes that these groups they will not pit candidates against each other in elections to the Senatebut in all constituencies they will field joint candidates.
They will come from all groupings in proportion to opinion polls for each of them and taking into account the best odds in a particular constituency. They will have priority in candidacy under the pact current senators belonging to opposition clubs.
The first Senate pact was concluded before the parliamentary elections in 2019: Civic Coalition (PO, Nowoczesna, Inicjatywa Polska, Zieloni), SLD Electoral Committee (SLD, Lewica Together, Spring) and PSL – Coalition of Poland (including PSL and Kukiz’15 ). Under the pact in the vast majority of districts the opposition fielded only one candidate for senator against PiS. Thanks to this, the opposition together won the election to the Senategaining 51 out of 100 seats.
