Various parties, including Poland’s deputy prime minister, are questioning just how long the presidential candidate chosen by Law and Justice (PiS) will last.
PiS nominated the head of the Institute of National Remembrance, Dr. Karol Nawrocki, as its candidate for president this past Sunday.
“Poland is my great love, the only one my wife won’t be mad at. That’s why I’m ready to become the president of the Republic of Poland,” Nawrocki said after he took the stage at the PiS convention. “I want to become your president, because I’ve worked hard all my life and I work hard, just like you work hard. You have to have a president who will work hard for you,” he said.
Meanwhile, the president of the Polish People’s Party (PSL), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, said the Third Way coalition will continue to support their candidate, Poland 2050 head Szymon Hołownia.
He went on to say that he also believes some candidates may still change, for example, Nawrocki, claiming that PiS politicians do not believe he can win the race for president.
“Such suggestions are being made,” said Kosiniak-Kamysz, who is a rival of PIS, adding that “many PiS politicians are not fully convinced about this candidacy.”
Only the last weeks of the campaign will be decisive, according to Kosiniak-Kamysz, as voters are increasingly postponing political decisions. He also questioned public opinion polls, saying, “One thing can be said today is that the polls conducted today have no significance for the result we will see in May.”
Meanwile, in the latest episode of their “Antisystem” program, editor-in-chief of Do Rzeczy Paweł Lisicki and radio journalist Wojciech Cejrowski commented on the presidential candidates as well.
“I raised my hand in Jakubiak’s favor. I had an interview with him in my cabin. Of all the candidates, Marek Jakubiak (member of the “Free Republicans” in the Sejm) is the one I like the most on this list. This guy can kick the table and say what he thinks, even if it temporarily lowers his support. In this respect, he seems sincere to me. We haven’t detected that he’s someone’s spy or agent,” Wojciech Cejrowski said.
“I think that in these categories, he’s an independent candidate,“ added Lisicki, who then asked Cejrowski about Nawrocki.
“He will clash with Trzaskowski (KO candidate),” due to his temper he said, adding, “The right wing did not put forward any candidate. PiS is not right wing, it is a patriotic party, and that is different. It is not even a conservative party,” said Cejrowski.
Lisicki then gave a simple warning in favor of whomever the PiS candidate may be in order to control the government led by PM Donald Tusk: “If Trzaskowski wins, the whole system will shut down, because the president is necessary to implement laws. In short, Poland will transform into an authoritarian, pseudo-liberal country.”
