Next week, a joint Senate pact is set to be signed by the opposition. The candidates will come from four political groups: Platforma, PSL, Lewica, and Polska 2050, marking Polska 2050’s first collaboration in a parliamentary slate. The agreement, described by Gazeta Wyborcza, will be sealed by opposition representatives next Tuesday.
According to Gazeta Wyborcza’s Thursday report, the signing is planned for Tuesday, February 28.
The signatories are not party leaders, but longtime negotiators who have worked behind the scenes for months: PO General Secretary Marcin Kierwiński, New Left Deputy Head Dariusz Wieczorek, PSL Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Piotr Zgorzelski, and Senator Jacek Bury of Polska 2050.
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The Senate Pact commits to close cooperation during the campaign to increase the number of democratic opposition seats in the Senate. In every senate district, a candidate backed by the joint opposition slate will run, and the coalition will be allowed to use the Pact logo in electoral materials under the name Senacki Pact 2023, as reported by Gazeta Wyborcza. The logo will be unveiled along with the agreement on Tuesday.
The opposition avoids discussing personal details
Gazeta Wyborcza notes that the agreement does not specify how many Senate seats each party would win. While insiders have indicated that adjustments were possible, the Civic Coalition could gain the right to nominate 53 candidates, Polska 2050 might secure ten, Lewica seven, and PSL six seats.
Publicly, the opposition has chosen not to disclose internal seat allocations at this stage. Inside sources suggest that the current lineup of the Senate opposition still has a real chance to begin anew, leveraging the new coalition framework to rejuvenate their campaign strategy.
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