Who will run for president is still open. In the case of PiS, primary elections are a real, although unusual, option. – So far, it seemed that there were three candidates at the top of the list. Now “the fourth one” started to count – said Konrad Piasecki in the “W Kuluarach” program. According to Arleta Zalewska, it may be Przemysław Czarnek.
President of Law and Justice Jarosław Kaczyński was asked this week at a press conference in the Sejm about the internal “race” in the party in which the candidate will be selected PIS for president. – Our problem is that there are draws. There are different levels of comparison, different criteria. Even in some of these studies there are a dozen of them (criteria – ed.), it is scored. Later, when it comes to summaries, we have draws. That's the problem, Kaczyński admitted. – If there were no draws, perhaps the decision would have already been made. In short: we have a lot of good candidates, he said.
A new candidate in the game
– So far, it seemed that there were three candidates at the top of the list: the president Institute of National Remembrance Karol Nawrocki, Mariusz Błaszczak – former Minister of Defense and second person in Law and Justice – and Tobiasz Bochański – commented TVN24 journalist Konrad Piasecki in the “W Kuluarach” program. As he added, he heard that “now the 'fourth' started to count.”
– I heard from one politician that he joined the game at the end of the week Przemysław Czarnekwho is convinced that he will run in these primaries and has even started calling various MPs and planning various visits – said the journalist of “Fakty” TVN, Arleta Zalewska.
Piasecki said that Przemysław Czarnek is “one of the most expressive politicians of Law and Justice” and “in recent months he has risen high in the informal party hierarchy.” Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska, journalist of “Fakty” TVN, wondered whether he would be able to “mobilize an electorate other than PiS and possibly Confederation” in the second round of elections.
Arleta Zalewska pointed out that Przemysław Czarnek is burdened with eight years of PiS rule, “he was a minister and has various things on his conscience, and the first thing is Willa plus scandal” In her opinion, his candidacy would be “rather a game of fighting for leadership” in PiS than “actually taking over the presidency.”
In 2023, tvn24.pl journalists Justyna Suchecka and Piotr Szostak described how money from the fund of then Minister Czarnek went to organizations close to PiS. Multi-million subsidies were allocated for the purchase of new headquarters. At the same time, many educational organizations and teaching institutions did not receive a single zloty from the ministry's budget
Journalists also drew attention to the recent statement Szymon Hołowniawho said he takes the idea of running for president very seriously. – I think that if Szymon Hołownia is fighting for something, he is fighting for a result of ten or more percent in the first round, one that will give oxygen to Poland 2050, probably less to the Third Way as such, and will allow us to say: Szymon Hołownia and Poland 2050 have hardened and strengthened its usefulness on the Polish political scene, Piasecki said.
The program participants agreed that the candidate of the Civic Coalition – which will officially reveal its name only on December 7 – will most likely be Rafał Trzaskowski. – Although I would say that with his speech at the Civic Coalition convention Radosław Sikorski He made this certainty a bit more leaky – added Piasecki.
– As for the Left, as far as I know, they are waiting for tests to be held within two weeks – said Arleta Zalewska. As she added, “Magdalena Biejat and Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk are the most likely today.”
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