PiS is losing Podlasie, a test of strength before the change in Łódź. New hands in provincial assemblies

He became the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship Łukasz Prokorym from the Civic Coalition. In a secret ballot he received 16 out of 30 votes. Two PiS councilors joined the board as deputy marshals. However, he became the chairman of the regional council Cezary Cieślukowski from the Third Way. This is a real earthquake in the Podlasie local government, where Law and Justice has previously ruled undividedly.

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In the secret ballot he got 16 votes. However, the current marshal of the voivodeship lost the vote. Artur Kosicki from PiS. He got 13 votes. All 30 councilors voted. There was one invalid vote. This is a huge surprise. In the new provincial assembly, PiS has 15 seats, the Civic Coalition – eight, Trzecia Droga – six, and KWW Konfederacja i Niepartyjni Samorządowcy – one.

The first session of the Łódź regional council began on Tuesday at 1 p.m. The session was initially chaired by the current marshal, Grzegorz Schreiber (PiS), who had chaired the council's work for the last five years. After taking the oath, the councilors appointed a three-person Resolutions and Motions Committee and members of the Returning Committee were selected.

Then the chairwoman of the regional council was elected – Małgorzata Grabarczyk from PO – supported by 17 councilors. Her opponent, nominated by PiS, was Janusz Ciesielskisupported by 16 councilors.

– She is a local government official with twenty years of experience, she chaired the City Council in Aleksandrów Łódzki, she is also the vice-president of the Aleksandrów Social Forum association – yes, just before the vote, councilor Maciej Sulgan introduced her candidacy.

Ultimately, in the 33-person assembly, PiS won 16 seats, KO won 12 and Trzecia Droga won 4 seats, i.e. a total of 16 seats; The Left received 1 seat – Piotr Bors, who returned to the Regional Assembly after 5 years, became a councilor of this formation. After this information was announced, he openly announced that he would not join PiS.

On Tuesday, councilors of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship also met for the first time. They elected the chairwoman of the regional council (Teresa Kalina) and then the marshal. Candidacy Olgierd Geblewicz reported by KO councilor Andrzej Niedzielski. Geblewicz was supported by 19 councilors in a secret ballot. The second candidate was a PiS councilor Marek Subocz (former deputy voivode), who obtained 10 votes. One councilor did not vote for any of the candidates. – It is with great emotion and responsibility that they accept another mission from the state, primarily the creation of the voivodeship board (…) I accept it with great humility, as an expression of trust of all pro-local government, pro-democratic forces represented in this room – said Geblewicz, inaugurating the next term. He appealed to councilors “to work as hard as possible for Western Pomerania during this term.” He thanked the current voivodeship board and then asked for a break in the session until Thursday (noon) to complete the election of the voivodeship presidium, board members and chairmen of the voivodeship committees.

Geblewicz has been the voivodeship marshal since November 2010. He has been a member of the regional council since 2006 (previously he was a city councilor in Goleniów), and in 2008-10 he was the chairman of the regional council. As a marshal, he was involved in the activities of the Association of Voivodeships of the Republic of Poland, and for years he has also been active on the forum of the European Committee of the Regions (he is the head of the faction of the European People's Party in ECR).

The West Pomeranian Voivodeship Assembly also chose its chairwoman – a candidate Teresa Kalina (KO) was supported by 20 out of 30 councilors, one was against and nine abstained. Teresa Kalina was the only candidate.

According to the agenda of the first session of the Opole Voivodeship assembly of the new term, the chairman of the assembly and the voivodeship board were to be elected. In the first part, the chairman of the local assembly was elected Rafał Bartek from the Silesian Local Government (formerly German Minority), who received 21 votes for and 3 votes against in the 30-person assembly. Six councilors abstained from voting. Bartek, who is the chairman of the Association of German Social and Cultural Associations in Poland, was also the chairman of the regional council in the previous term. Szymon Godyla and Jolanta Wilczyńska, proposed by KO, and Artur Kamiński, representing PiS, became vice-chairmen. There was no vote on the election of the new marshal of the Opole Voivodeship and members of the management board. A motion to adjourn the session and postpone the vote on this matter until Thursday was submitted by Deputy Marshal Szymon Ogłaza, who justified the motion with the need for additional arrangements regarding the proposed composition of the management board. The Opole Voivodeship assembly in the new term is governed by the KO-ŚS-PSL coalition, which has 20 votes in the 30-person assembly. The Civic Coalition has 14 councillors, the Silesian Local Government Councilors 5, Trzecia Droga – 1, and the opposition PiS – 10 councillors. According to the voivodeship marshal's statement Andrzej Buła a few days ago, who is also the head of PO's regional structures, four seats in the five-person board were to go to KO, and one was to be retained – as in the previous term – by the Silesian Local Government. This would mean the loss of a position on the board by PSL, which elected only one councilor to the local assembly.

The first session of the Łódź regional council began on Tuesday at 1 p.m. The session was initially chaired by the current marshal, Grzegorz Schreiber (PiS), who had chaired the council's work for the last five years. After taking the oath, the councilors appointed a three-person Resolutions and Motions Committee and members of the Returning Committee were selected.

Then the chairwoman of the regional council was elected – Małgorzata Grabarczyk from PO – supported by 17 councilors. Her opponent, nominated by PiS, was Janusz Ciesielskisupported by 16 councilors.

– She is a local government official with twenty years of experience, she chaired the City Council in Aleksandrów Łódzki, she is also the vice-president of the Aleksandrów Social Forum association – yes, just before the vote, councilor Maciej Sulgan introduced her candidacy.

Ultimately, in the 33-person assembly, PiS won 16 seats, KO won 12 and Trzecia Droga won 4 seats, i.e. a total of 16 seats; The Left received 1 seat – Piotr Bors, who returned to the Regional Assembly after 5 years, became a councilor of this formation. After this information was announced, he openly announced that he would not join PiS.

George Peace (KO) was elected chairman of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Assembly on Tuesday. Peace also performed this function in the last term, when after October 15, the chairman of PiS, Andrzej Jaroch, was dismissed by the votes of the Non-Party Local Government Workers who were then in coalition with PiS.

Jerzy Pokoj's candidacy was submitted by the KO club. The PiS club nominated Ewelina Szydłowska-Kędziera. 25 councilors voted for the election of Pokoj as chairman of the local assembly, and 11 votes were cast for the PiS candidate.

KO won the elections to the Lower Silesian assembly, winning 15 seats; PiS has 13 councilors in the 36-person assembly, Third Road won 4 seats, Nonpartisan Local Government Workers – 3, and the Left – 1.ł

Ludwik Rakowski (Civic Coalition) was re-elected on Tuesday as the chairman of the Masovian assembly. However, the marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship was not elected. The proceedings were adjourned until May 14.

The first session of the new term of office of the Masovian assembly was opened by the oldest councilor of the assembly, Andrzej Melak.

– Our decisions will affect not only the fate of Mazovia, but also the fate of the entire Republic of Poland – he said. He stated that there was an appropriate number of councilors in the room for the deliberations to be considered legally valid. The attendance list was signed by 51 councilors, i.e. 100 percent of the Masovian assembly.

Then the councilors took the oath. In the next vote, Ludwik Rakowski was elected chairman of the Masovian assembly. Rakowski also held this position in the previous term.

In the next vote, the vice-chairman of the voivodeship was elected. Masovian Voivodeship, which was Konrad Wojnarowski, nominated by the Third Way Club (PSL-Polska 2050).

Then, a formal motion was submitted to adjourn the meeting until May 14 at 11. There was no objection and the meeting was adjourned.

The marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship and the management board were not elected during the meeting.

After the elections this year, PiS got to the local assembly and won 21 seats, KO – 20, Trzecia Droga – 8, and the Left and Konfederacja – 1 each.