Adrian Zandberg and Sławomir Menzten, presidential candidates on behalf of the Together and the Confederation, did not appear on Friday at the presidential debate in Końskie. Politicians explained why they are not going to this event.
On Friday evening, a presidential debate takes place in the sports hall in Końskie, in which Rafał Trzaskowski from the Civic Coalition, Law and Justice candidate Karol Nawrocki, third way candidate Szymon Hołownia, Magdalena Biejat from the new left, was the SLD MP Joanna Senyszyn, Marek Jakubiak (Free Republicans), Krzysztof Stanowski and Maciej Maciak.
Initially, two candidates who are leaders were to face the debate polls – Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki. However, later other presidential candidates announced that they were also going to Końskie. Therefore, Trzaskowski proposed to extend the debate about all candidates.
The confederation candidate Sławomir Mentzen and the Party leader of Together Adrian Zandberg did not appear at the debate. The reasons why they did not go to Końskie presented before the appearance of the proposal of the President of Warsaw and the decision to extend the debate about other candidates.
Read the report from the presidential debate in Końskie
Mentzen: I will not take part in this circus
Sławomir Mentzen explained that he would not take part in the debate because he has appointed meetings with voters in Ustrzyki Dolne, Lesko, Brzozów and Krosno. “I will not cancel them and disappoint people waiting for me there to go to Końskie and try to enter the debate, which I am not invited to.
He admitted that many people urged him to change his plans and go to Końskie on Friday. “I won't do it. I'm in Ustrzyki Dolne, very far from Końskie,” said the confederation candidate. “But of course I am not surprised that candidates are going to go there, who do not take seriously, but make eggs from these choices, such as Stanowski, Biejat or Hołownia. I am starting seriously” – emphasized Mentzen.
Zandberg: With disgust we look at this clam
– I think that we all look at this clam with disgust today, which has been playing in the last hours. I am running for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland, and not for the office of clown in the circus – said Zandberg at a briefing before meeting the president Andrzej Duda on health contributions.
As he assessed, this kind of debate as in Końskie is not a real politician, which consists in decisions regarding, among others, public health care, the construction of nuclear power plants or Polish science. – In my opinion, there is a real politics, but not those bridles, scuffles and the pathetic circus that we see in the last hours during this law behind the garage in Końskie – Zandberg pointed out.
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