Major changes in the representation of Łódź MPs from KO in Łódź constituency No. 9. For the first time since 1991, Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, a member of parliament from Łódź, will not sit in the Sejm. Only one person in the Łódź KO retained the mandate from four years ago – according to National Electoral Commission data, after counting votes, more than 99 percent. district committees in Łódź province.
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After counting the votes of 452 out of 454 (99.56%) district committees in District No. 9, covering Łódź and the eastern provinces of Łódź and Brzeziny, KO took first place in the Sejm elections – 41.08% . PiS took second place – 26.84%. and the third was left with a result of 12.19 percent.
There are ten parliamentary seats available in the Łódź constituency. According to the information from the National Electoral Commission (without data from the two districts), it is known who achieved the best results on the lists of the electoral commissions, because the distribution of seats in district No. 9 will only be possible after the results. of the Sejm elections are announced across the country. According to many observers of public life, KO will most likely have five seats, PiS – 3, and Trzecia Droga and Lewica will have one parliamentary seat each in district No. 9.
The best result on the KO list in Łódź was achieved by party member Dariusz Joński, former head of the SLD in the Łódź region. Joński received almost 87,000. to vote.
Second place among the KO candidates in Łódź was taken by social activist Aleksandra Wiśniewska, daughter of a millionaire and philanthropist. During the campaign, one of the encyclopedia platforms changed the biography of the KO candidate, which was considered controversial. Wiśniewska won more than 25,000. to vote.
Third on the KO list is former volleyball player and MP Małgorzata Niemczyk – over 20,000. to vote; Fourth place among the KO candidates was taken by Paweł Bliśniuk, councilor of the Łódź Regional Council – with more than 12,000 votes. to vote; fifth in KO is teacher Marcin Józefaciuk, who collected almost 9,000 PLN. to vote; sixth is KO MP and former vice president of Łódź Krzysztof Piątkowski – almost 7,000. to vote; MP Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska took seventh place – over 6,000. votes, who has been a member of the Sejm continuously since 1991.
After 32 years he says goodbye to the Sejm
Śledzińska-Katarasińska held her parliamentary mandate continuously for 32 years and represented, among others: Democratic Union, Freedom Union and Civic Platform. The MP is a journalist, she belonged to the Polish United Workers’ Party, in the Polish People’s Republic she worked in “Dziennik Łódzki”, “Głos Robotniczy” and Telewizja Polska in Łódź. Since the early 1980s she has been associated with NSZZ “Solidarność” and the independence opposition. During martial law, she was interned until December 16, 1981.
During the anti-Semitic campaign in 1968, the press in Łódź published very aggressive articles against Jews and students by a journalist, then I. Śledzińska. After more than thirty years, when she would become Minister of Culture in the government of Jerzy Buzek, it was her past that prevented her from taking a seat in the Council of Ministers. Years later, she explained, “I didn’t quit because I felt guilty. Thirty years ago, articles were published, I admit they were mean and stupid, with my name on them.
Of the four MPs representing the Łódź PO since 2019, only Małgorzata Niemczyk will sit in the Sejm, because sports journalist Tomasz Zimoch, who joined the Polska 2050 club and will most likely become a Third Way MP from Wrocław, ran away from this group from Constituency No. 9 four years ago.
Who has the most votes on the PiS list?
The most votes on the PiS list in Łódź were won by Waldemar Buda, Minister of Development and Technology: more than 45,000. to vote. If PiS wins three seats in Łódź district, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Zbigniew Rau will receive more than 32 thousand votes, and social activist Agnieszka Wojciechowska from Haukelom – more than 10 thousand. to vote. PiS candidates: Minister of Local Government Włodzimierz Tomaszewski and Deputy Minister of Justice Piotr Cieplucha will most likely remain without seats in district number 9.
From the Third Way, Ewa Szymanowska can become a Member of Parliament from the Łódź constituency (almost 26,000 votes), and from the left Tomasz Trela an MP (more than 26,000 votes).
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Source: wPolityce