Monika Piątkowska, candidate of the Civic Coalition, PSL and the Left, won the Sunday supplementary election in Krakow. A politician associated in the past with Poland 2050 will include the mandate of Bogdan Klich. Piątkowska obtained over 50 percent of votes, and Mateusz Małodziński from PiS – over 31 percent. The turnout was only 16.5 percent.
Election results National Electoral Commission She published on Sunday night.
Complementary elections to the Senate. Results
Senator's mandate from District 33, which includes the southwestern part of Krakow, will be included in Monika Piątkowska, who obtained 50.14 percent. votes (25,000 votes). She started with the support of the Civic Coalition, the Polish People's Party and the Left, but he does not belong to any party.
Monika PiątkowskaJarek Praszkiewicz/PAP
Second result – 31.41 percent support (15.5 thousand votes) – obtained Mateusz Małodziński, a politician PISstarting from the Civic Committee “for Krakow”. Adam Berkowicz from the committee Confederation 10.47 percent supported freedom and independence. voters (5223 people). 7.98 percent voted for Ewa Słatek from the Committee Together. voters, (3,982 people).
Mateusz MałodzińskiPAP/Art Service
The distribution of forces in the Senate will not change after complementary elections. In the current, 11th term of the Senate, the vast majority are the senators of the ruling coalition – KO, the left and the third road (PSL and Poland 2050). Senate Club of the Civic Coalition (PO, Nowoczesna, Polish initiative, Green) currently has 41 senators. 12 senators represent the third way in the Senate, and the left – 9. The opposition Law and Justice Club has 34 senators. There is no confederation in the Senate that only has a parliamentary club.
Voted every sixth resident
The turnout in the election amounted to 16.52 percent. Almost 303 800 people from the southern and western districts of Krakow were entitled to vote, as well as from the Old Town district. The election was ordered by the president after Bogdan Klich resigned from the mandate in connection with the assumption of Chargé d'Affaires in Washington.
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Piątkowska during her election campaign talked about five demands that as a senator would like to implement. Three of them concern the strictly Krakow. This ensuring funding for: construction of the subway; Equipping the airport in Balice with a category III lead system, enabling visibility in the fog at 100 meters; and for the construction of Pychowicka and Zwierzyniecka.
Two nationwide demands of Piątkowska concern women's rights and security. As for women's rights, the candidate supported by the KO announced actions especially to align women's wages with pays for men in the same positions. Among the security issues, food safety is particularly important for Piątkowska – she announced efforts to restore food as a separate department in the Act on government administration.
Nomination against local structures after
In the past, Piątkowska was associated with PSL and Polska 2050. She served as, among others President of the President of Krakow (Jacek Majchrowski) for the Kraków brand and was responsible for shaping the image of the city. He is currently the president of the cereal and pancake chamber.
From the left: Katarzyna Matusik-LiPiec, Monika Piątkowska, Marek SowaPAP/Łukasz Gągulski
Monika Piątkowska did not obtain the support of Poland 2050 in these elections. The politician left this party in the spring of 2023, publishing in social media a recording in which, together with a group of activists, she said that the departing members of the party “could not agree to put party or personal interest above the interest of the entire democratic community.”
Nomination of Piątkowska for a candidate for the Senate in complementary elections was openly criticized by the local structures of the Civic Platform. PO activists complained that the party's headquarters made a decision without consulting them, and also ignored the list of their own recommendations.
Krakow is divided into two Senate constituencies – 32 and 33. Bogdan Klich (KO) in October 2023 won in District No. 33. He obtained 184 334 votes of support, i.e. almost 71 percent, winning with the candidate at the time. In District No. 32, covering northern and eastern districts, the politician Ko – Jerzy Fedorowicz also won – he won 67 percent. support and defeated Zbigniew Cichoń (PiS).
Source of the main photo: Jarek Praszkiewicz/PAP