President Hanna Zdanowska, who has ruled Łódź since 2010, will run for her fourth term in the upcoming local elections. “I can promise one thing: good cooperation between the city and the government, and therefore the opportunity to benefit from a huge amount of EU funds,” Zdanowska said.
President Zdanowska announced on Tuesday that she would run again for local elections, emphasizing that everything that was most important in her life took place in Łódź.
Changes in Łódź
I decided to run for mayor of Łódź. If you trust me, this will be my last term. The time I will govern will be very special, because I can promise one thing: good cooperation between the city and the government, and therefore the opportunity to benefit from a huge pool of EU funds that will soon be released and from which we will once again be able to bring in handfuls and more, change our beloved city
– she assured.
Zdanowska admitted that not all her promises had been fulfilled on time and therefore – as she emphasized – she wanted to complete what she had promised to the residents.
Łódź is changing before our eyes. We see how together with the people of Łódź we have achieved the unimaginable. People want to live in Łódź again, they want to visit Łódź again. We may sometimes forget it in everyday life, but it happened. And I want to finish what I promised
– she stated.
Local government elections
The president called on all Łódź residents to vote in large numbers on April 7.
Let us show that the miraculous result achieved on October 15 was no coincidence. We need a strong Łódź and for that we also need your vote. We want to keep changing Łódź together with you
– she added.
Zdanowska announced that she would discuss the future of the city and its program for the next semester during subsequent meetings with residents. Zdanowska, who is part of the Civic Platform, will be a candidate for the Civic Coalition’s electoral commission.
So far in Łódź, the willingness to run for the office of mayor of the city has been confirmed by economist Dr. Janusz Wdzięczak, representative of the election committee of Energia Łodzi, head of the Pirate Party in Poland.
Zdanowska’s tenure in Łódź
Zdanowska has been President of Łódź since December 2010. She started her first term ten months after the referendum in which the people of Łódź decided to dismiss President Jerzy Kropiwnicki, whose deputy Zdanowska once was.
In the 2010 elections, as a PO candidate, she defeated the SLD candidate and the leader of this party in the region, Dariusz Joński, in both the first and second rounds. In the second round she received the support of 60.65%. voters. By winning the elections, she became the first female president in Łódź’s history.
When she ran for re-election in 2014, she won in the first round, winning 54.08%. to vote. She defeated the PiS candidate Joanna Kopcińska (22.89 percent of the votes) and Tomasz Trela (SLD Lewica Razem) – 9.23 percent. In the 2018 elections, she also won in the first round, winning 70.22%. to vote. Second place was taken by the United Right candidate, PiS MP Waldemar Buda, with the support of 23.65%. to vote.
64-year-old Zdanowska is from Łódź. She graduated in environmental engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the Lodz University of Technology. After graduating, she built residential areas in Łódź – Retkinia and Radogoszcz. She ran her own company and was also director of the office of the Łódź Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the largest organization for economic self-government in the region.
In 2005, she did not enter the Senate on PO’s recommendation. In 2006, she became a councilor of the Łódź City Council and later vice-president of the city. In 2007, she was elected to the Sejm through the PO list, and three years later she became President of Łódź.
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Source: wPolityce