“I’m talking about building communal apartments that can be done by local governments, which can be done by a government agency, for example,” Tomasz Trela, deputy president of the New Left club, said in an interview with RMF FM. Robert Mazurek recalled the politician how many municipal flats were built in Łódź when Trela was Vice President of this city.
Links and communal apartments
When asked whether housing is a right or a commodity, the MP replied:
A right, not a commodity.
Tomasz Trela stressed that the state should build rental flats.
There are citizens who prefer to go into debt, use credit and own their own property. And I am talking about apartments that are not owned by a citizen, but owned by the state, and a citizen will be able to use this apartment by renting it from the state
he said.
I’m talking about building community housing that can be done by local governments, which can be done by a government agency, for example
– added.
The host asked his guest how many social housing units were built in Łódź in 2014-2019. Tomasz Trela was then the vice president of this city.
But I was not responsible for housing
said the left-wing MP.
Well, then in Łódź you built 133 rental apartments, social rental apartments and – note – no municipal ones. Zero, zero, nothing
Mazurek said.
But if you could see how many revitalizations we’ve done in tenements and how many apartments there are in these tenements, it’s really a lot
Trela replied.
In Łódź, sir, in 2022 there were 39.5 thousand. municipal flats, of which more than 14,000 had no toilets. It’s hard to believe, but in Lodz 3 thousand. homes had no water, and only fewer than 10,000 apartments had central heating. This is a communal apartment in Łódź. You ruled Lodz for 5 years
summed up the leader.
It is precisely these neglects that we have been implementing very consistently since 1989. When was the last time you were in Lodz?
asked the politician from the left. Robert Mazurek admitted that he visits Łódź once or twice a year. In response, Trela invited him to see “what revitalization looks like in Łódź”.
Okay, I’m here to look at the social housing that you didn’t build
replied Mazurek.
Prime Minister Tusk?
Trela also referred to the statement of Paulina Matysiak, who recently announced in an interview with Polsat News that the Together Party may veto Donald Tusk’s possible candidacy for the premiership. The MP also expressed her belief that it was unlikely that the PO chairman would return to the office of Prime Minister.
To me it goes without saying that the party that wins the election has the right to nominate a candidate for the prime minister. If PO nominates Donald Tusk and we co-govern, then Donald Tusk becomes prime minister
– said the Vice-President of the Left Club.
These are the rules, we will convince Paulina Matysiak of this and we will convince her, because this is our approach as a left. I know Paulina Matysiak, we work together, the most important thing is to win the election and be able to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister
– added.
“The right to abortion, let the woman decide
It seems that the views of the left, or at least Tomasz Trela’s MP, about the abortion law in Poland. Is a politician in favor of a referendum on this issue?
The largest referendum on abortion took place on the streets of Polish cities in the fall of 2020. Big cities, small towns, Polish villages protested en masse. Young women, older women, men. It was a referendum
emphasized Trela.
The RMF FM guest pointed out that the participants in the Women’s Strike protests following the 2020 Constitutional Tribunal ruling (and the vice president of the New Left club admitted to participating in three such protests) stressed the need for “the right to abortion, so that the woman decides”.
This is a benchmark for us. MPs talk to people, they introduce us, and we have a duty and our duty, if we have a social mandate, to fulfill this obligation to people
added the politician.
The RMF FM guest stressed that the left is announcing “categorically and unequivocally” that it will “raise its hand” that the decision on abortion belongs to the woman.
Robert Mazurek reminded his interlocutor that the left wanted a referendum on the abortion law in 2016.
It was a mistake. Włodzimierz Czarzasty said it when he was in Szczecin recently, Tomasz Trela says it when he is with you today
he pointed it out.
The law must be passed, the president must be persuaded to sign it – if not this one, then the next – and it must be executed
Trela emphasized.
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Source: wPolityce