The New Left board will approve the electoral lists on Friday, the party’s general secretary Marcin Kulasek told PAP. Gender equality must be maintained on the lists, emphasizes Robert Biedroń, the leader of the formation. Prof. Jan Hartman will not be a candidate in any of the constituencies of the left-wing lists in the upcoming parliamentary elections, said Ryszard Śmiałek, co-chairman of the Małopolska New Left party.
Hartman falls off the lists from the left
The statement by the co-chair of the Małopolska Provincial Council of the New Left was published on Twitter by Lewica club spokesperson Marek Kacprzak.
In connection with a lot of media information about the candidacy as leader of the Left list in the upcoming parliamentary elections in District 14 (Nowy Sącz) by Prof. Jan Hartman, I would like to expressly inform you that Prof. Jan Hartman will be at the upcoming parliamentary elections on 15 October 2023 will not be the leader of the list in this constituency, nor will he be a candidate in any of the left-list constituencies.
Smiley emphasized.
The statement was released following the controversy sparked by Hartman’s Twitter post on Tuesday.
Paid to trolls by PiS for public money: Yes! Pedophiles have rights too! Just like all other criminals! No one can be stigmatized – not even a pedophile!
Hartman wrote.
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Who is on the list of Links?
New Left secretary general Marcin Kulasek told PAP the party board would approve the party’s lists for the Sejm and Senate candidates on Friday. The meeting will take place at the party’s headquarters in Warsaw on 12.
New Left co-chair Robert Biedroń assured that his formation was ready for the fall elections.
The lists will be parity, we will have a slider, ie the alternation of representatives of both sexes on the lists
he stressed.
New Left lists will include politicians from Razem, the Labor Union, the Polish Socialist Party, as well as activists from the Women’s Strike, Citizens of the Republic of Poland and the Youth Climate Strike.
“Jedynki” will be present deputies m. Marek Dyduch opens the list in Wałbrzych, Krzysztof Śmiszek in Wrocław, Krzysztof Gawkowski in Bydgoszcz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus in Toruń, Jacek Czerniak in Lublin, Anita Kucharska-Dziedzic in Zielona Góra.
Tomasz Trela opens the list in Łódź, Anita Sowińska in Piotrków Trybunalski, Paulina Matysiak in Sieradz, Maciej Gdula in Krakow, Adrian Zandberg in Warsaw.
Arkadiusz Iwaniek becomes number one in the district near Warsaw, Marcelina Zawisza in Opole, Wiesław Buż in Rzeszów, Paweł Krutul in Białystok, Katarzyna Kotula in Gdańsk, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk in Gdynia.
Przemysław Koperski opens the list in Bielsko-Biała, Zdzisław Wolski in Częstochowa, Wanda Nowicka in Gliwice, Maciej Konieczny in Katowice, Włodzimierz Czarzasty in Sosnowiec, Andrzej Szejna in Kielce, Monika Falej in Elbląg, Marcin Kulasek in Olsztyn, Wiesł a w Szczepanski in Kalisz , Tadeusz Tomaszewski in Konin, Katarzyna Ueberhan in Poznań, Małgorzata Prokop-Paczkowska in Koszalin and Dariusz Wieczorek in Szczecin.
The remaining “ones” go to local activists from the left. Arkadiusz Sikora opens the list in Legnica, Sylwia Buźniak in Chełm, Paweł Kobielusz in Chrzanów, Jacek Jabłoński in Tarnów, Paulina Piechna-Więckiewicz in Płock, Daniel Oliszewski in Radom, Maria Parzychowska-Kurpiewska in Siedlce, Łukasz Rydzik in Krosno, Patry k Fajdek in Rybnik and in Pila Dariusz Standerski.
There will also be many interesting names on the lists further down the list. In Warsaw, second place is MP Anna Maria Żukowska, third place is Agata Diduszko-Zyglewska, the city councilor, and fourth, Together spokeswoman Dorota Olko. The list will be closed by the writer Jacek Dehnel, and the former MP Piotr Gadzinowski and the leader of the Citizens of the Republic of Poland Paweł Kasprzak will also receive a certain place.
The list in Olsztyn will also be strong, where the president of the Secular Congress, Bożena Przyłuska, volleyball player and Olympian from Moscow, Włodzimierz Nalazek, as well as former member of the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland, Mieczysław Aszkiełowicz, will be candidates.
Together party co-chair Magdalena Biejat will not run for the Sejm as she will be running from Warsaw for a seat in the Senate under the Senate Pact. Current MP Małgorzata Sekuła-Szmajdzińska can also run for Senate.
Other candidates from the Left for Senate may also be m.in. the Vice President of Włocławek Krzysztof Kukucki (Włocławek), the Chairman of the Polish Socialist Party Wojciech Konieczny (Częstochowa), the leader of the trade union Waldemar Witkowski (Lower Silesia), the current Member of Parliament Maciej Kopiec from Katowice, Anna Górska from the board of Together in Słupsk, and the local New Left leader Piotr Woźniak from Opole.
Parliamentary elections will be held on 15 October. Poles elect 460 deputies and 100 senators for four-year terms.
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Source: wPolityce