On Saturday, the Future Group activity was inaugurated. The list of leaders includes many former PiS activists, but no one from current politics is involved, Rzeczpospolita reported Monday.
However, the future began without Girzyński
According to the newspaper, the group has existed in the register of political parties since 2021 under the name Future 5.0 (official abbreviation – Future) and comes from the milieu of former right-wing politicians.
Its origins date back to 2019, when the Jan Olszewski Institute Foundation was established. The board of directors included Tomasz Markowski and Dawid Jackiewicz, former ROP and PiS deputies, the latter of whom was even finance minister in Beata Szydło’s government. Even more well-known names found their way to the board of the institute, including current MPs Zbigniew Girzyński (Polskie Sprawy, formerly in PiS), Bartosz Kownacki (PiS) and Paweł Poncyljusz (KO). In 2020, some of the founders of the institute founded the Przyszłość 5.0 association, the board of which again included the names Markowski and Jackiewicz. Subsequently, members of the association founded the Future 5.0 party
– informs “Rzeczpospolita”.
He recalls that the construction of the structures started in earnest last year and that the new party was originally associated with Zbigniew Girzyński. However, the newspaper points out that the Future Party eventually began to operate without Girzyński.
I am not participating in this project
– reserves the parliamentarian in an interview with “Rzeczpospolita”.
Other people from current parliamentary politics were also not involved, according to the newspaper.
Several former PiS politicians
So who forms the party? The list of leaders includes several former PiS politicians, including Piotr Zwara, who left the PiS club in the Pomeranian Regional Council in 2021 and founded the Dla Pomorza club. Also speaking at the inauguration on Saturday was Bogusław Bosak, PiS MP in 2005-2007, and one of the main activists is Tomasz Markowski, who was a PiS MP in 2001-2007. Filip Rdesiński, a former head of Radio Poznań and the Polish National Foundation, and then Vice President of Lotos Terminale, also got involved. The list does not end with the right-wing environment. On Saturday she performed Danuta Zduńczyk of the Association of Single Parents, known for her protests against the provisions of the Polish Order, which affected single parents
writes the newspaper.
What does the new party want? On Saturday, there were announcements of the rule that ZUS would pay sickness benefits from the first day of pregnancy and not from the 34th day of pregnancy, as is currently the case, which would help overcome employers’ fears of hiring women. The Leaders of the Future also want the electoral law to be changed to a preferential law, referendums popularized and the rule introduced that one of the deputy ministers of health should deal exclusively with dentistry
he adds.
Relentlessly a political scientist
Prof. Rafał Chwedoruk, a political scientist from the University of Warsaw, estimates in an interview with the newspaper that the party “probably wants to enter the liberal niche in the PiS voters, which Jarosław Gowin, and then Adam Bielan, once tried to develop. ”
However, anything that refers to the concept of the future in Polish politics usually does not exist. This is one of the most banal terms in political marketing, and the pinnacle of this party’s aspirations will be to survive on the fringes of PiS.
– predicts.
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Source: wPolityce