Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki will participate in the European Local Government Congress in Mikołajki

The 10th edition of the European Local Government Congress will take place on Monday and Tuesday in Mikołajki in Masuria. On Tuesday, meetings with five presidential candidates were planned at the Congress.

– We invited the top five in polls – said the director of the Promotion Office of the Foundation Institute of Eastern Studies Paweł Piszczek. This foundation is the main organizer of the event, it is supported by, among others The local government of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and the city and commune of Mikołajki.

Candidates invited to the event are: KO candidate Rafał TrzaskowskiPiS candidate Karol NawrockiLeft candidate Magdalena Biejat, Confederation candidate Sławomir Mentzen and the third way candidate Szymon Hołownia. Piszczek informed PAP that for now the organizers were confirmed only by Magdalena Biejat.

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At the Congress – as PAP established – Trzaskowski and Nawrocki will appear. “It will be their first meeting, interesting how it will fall out,” said one of PiS deputieswhich organizes Nawrocki's visit. From Mikołajki, the candidate supported by PiS will go to a meeting with the inhabitants of Ełk. On Tuesday, this meeting was informed on social media.

– Nawrocki is not fearful, he will gladly talk to Trzaskowski. And he will not bother him that Trzaskowski would be among his colleagues – added a local PiS politician from Masuria.

Warmian-Masurian PO politicians confirmed the presence of Trzaskowski in Mikołajki. – Rafał Trzaskowski is a local government. This is an event at which he cannot be missing – said PO politician from Masuria. For now, nothing is known that Trzaskowski, apart from Congress, has other meetings. Paweł Piszczek said that the organizers do not anticipate the debate of presidential candidates. – Each of them will get a stage for half an hour, a journalist will talk to them. If any of the invited candidates want to listen to the statements of another, he will be able to, but I do not know if such busy people will have time for it – he said. He emphasized that neither the staff of Nawrocki nor Trzaskowski had officially confirmed the presence of their candidates in Mikołajki.

The European Local Government Congress is advertised as a “platform for the exchange of views and the place where local government leaders, representatives of regional elites, members of state administration, non -governmental organizations and business” will meet.

In the program of this year's Congress, which will take place on March 3-4, over 250 events are planned, including discussion panels, workshops, lectures and presentations.

Congress debates will concern the issues of contemporary urban planning, mechanisms of development of cities and regions, investment financing, city management, environmental protection, health policy and local governments in the new reality.

Among the main speakers announced, among others Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosaksecretaries of state in the ministries: climate and environment – Urszula Zielińska, agriculture and rural development – Stefan Krajewski, national education – Henryk Kiepura, former prime minister Leszek Milleror former commander of the Land Forces Waldemar Skrzypczak.