The current deputies — Grzegorz Schetyna, Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Rafał Grupiński, Małgorzata Szmajdzińska, Magdalena Biejat, Maciej Kopiec — are set to stand as Senate candidates under the Senate Pact agreed on Wednesday. Former Ombudsman Adam Bodnar and ex-Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak will also pursue Senate seats.
On Thursday, opposition leaders — PO chief Donald Tusk, PSL president Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland 2050 founder Szymon Hołownia, and New Left co-chairs Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Robert Biedroń — announced that work on the pact’s second edition had been completed, reinforcing a shared path toward the upper chamber.
Under the Senate Pact, the PSL will field candidates in 21 constituencies, PO in 51, while the Left has 15 seats, Poland 2050 eight, and the Samorządowy Movement Yes! For Poland will present three candidates. There is also an impartial candidate, Senator Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (District 24 Łódź), plus an informal third option not aligned with any single party, who is not opposed by the others. That independent is current Senator Jan Maria Jackowski (District 39, Ciechanów). Jackowski left the Law and Justice club last year.
Schetyna, Grodzki, Kidawa-Błońska
As part of the pact, a number of Constitutionally aligned candidates from the PO were chosen as sitting delegates. The former PO leader, MP Grzegorz Schetyna, will run for the Senate in Wrocław (District 7). Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, is set to run in Warsaw’s District 43. Also on the slate are Waldy Dzikowski (District 90, Swarzędz), Rafał Grupiński (District 91, Poznań) and Tomasz Lenz (District 11, Toruń).
Other contenders include Senate President Tomasz Grodzki (District 97, Szczecin), Deputy Speaker Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka (District 74, Ruda Śląska) and Bogdan Borusewicz (District 65, Gdańsk).
Current KO senators proceed to race for the Senate: Agnieszka Kołacz-Leszczyńska (District 4, Wałbrzych), Barbara Zdrojewska (District 8 Wrocław), Andrzej Kobiak (District 9, Bydgoszcz), Władysław Komarnicki (District 21, Gorzów Wielkopolski), Artur Dunin (District 23, Łódź), Jerzy Fedorowicz (District 32, Kraków), Bogdan Klich (District 33, Kraków), Jolanta Hibner (District 40, Legionowo).
Borowski, Klein, Szejnfeld
Re-elected figures include Marek Borowski (District 42, Warsaw), Beniamin Godyla (District 53, Kędzierzyn-Koźle), Kazimierz Kleina (District 62, Słupsk), Sławomir Rybicki (District 64, Gdynia), Ryszard Świlski (District 66, Tczew), Leszek Czarnobaj (District 67, Malbork), Zygmunt Frankiewicz (District 70, Gliwice), Halina Bieda (District 71, Zabrze), Beata Małecka-Libera (District 76, Dąbrowa Górnicza), Jolanta Sekuła (District 77, Sosnowiec), Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor (District 78, Bielsko-Biała), Jerzy Wcisła (District 84, Elbląg).
KO Senators will also stand again: Adam Szejnfeld (District 88, Piła), Wojciech Ziemniak (District 94, Leszno), Ewa Matecka (District 95, Ostrów Wielkopolski), Janusz Pęcherz (District 96, Kalisz), Magdalena Kochan (District 98, Stargard), Janusz Gromek (District 99, Kołobrzeg), Stanisław Gawłowski (District 100, Koszalin).
Former Human Rights Commissioner Adam Bodnar will also be a KO candidate for the Senate in District 44 (Warsaw), alongside Ryszard Brejza, father of current Senator Krzysztof Brejza, in District 44. A note mentions a district 10 reference in Inowroclaw. The KO slate does not currently include Senator Aleksander Pociej, who joined the Senate from District 45 (Warsaw) in earlier elections.
The PSL’s current senators will seek re-election to the upper house: Ryszard Bober (District 12, Grudziądz), Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (District 6, Oleśnica), Michał Kamiński (District 41, Pruszków) and Jan Filip Libicki (District 89, Szamotuły).
Pawlak on the list
Reports confirming Waldemar Pawlak, head of the PSL’s Supreme Council and a Senate candidate, show a start in district 38 (Płock).
Paweł Gancarz, head of the Stoszowice Municipality and President of the PSL General Assembly, will run in District 5, which includes Dzierżoniowski, Kłodzko and Ząbkowice counties; Tadeusz Gajda will contest district 25 (Kutno) and Marek Mazur district 28 (Piotrków Trybunalski).
Józef Matysiak seeks a Sejm seat in district 29 (Tomaszów Mazowiecki) and a European Parliament bid in 2014. Stanisław Pasoń starts in District 37 (Nowy Sącz); in district 48 (Siedlce) veteran Krzysztof Borkowski will pursue the Sejm seat for the 6th and 7th terms.
Leszek Przybytniak runs in District 49 (Kozienice); in District 59 (Suwałki) Cezary Cieślukowski, formerly Deputy Health Minister in 2015, and in District 68 (Myszków) Krzysztof Smela. Former Jędrzejów starost Edmund Kaczmarek is listed in district 81 (Końskie), Gustaw Marek Brzezin in district 85 (Iława) and Anna Majda in district 93 (Konin). PSL also has a vacancy in district 54 (Tarnobrzeg).
Poland 2050 and the Left
Poland 2050 will present eight candidates. In District 16 (Lublin), attorney Jacek Trela will take a seat, along with Grzegorz Nowosielski, a social activist. In district 50 (Radom) Cezary Brymora, a businessman and board member of the Association of Czarni, will be active, while in district 60 (Białystok) the deputy leader of Poland 2050, a regional official and former Podlaskie Voivode Maciej Żywno, will stand. Piotr Masłowski starts in district 73 (Rybnik), Piotr Dasios in district 82 (Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski) and Grzegorz Fedorowicz in district 92 (Gniezno).
Left-wing candidates include current deputies Małgorzata Szmajdzińska in constituency 3 (Legnica) and Maciej Kopiec in constituency 80 (Katowice). Magdalena Biejat (Party Samen) will run from Warsaw’s constituency 45, Wojciech Konieczny will represent constituency 69 (Częstochowa), and Waldemar Witkowski (district 1, Bolesławiec) will seek a Senate seat for the Left as well.
Local officials and activists will also stand for the Left, among them Krzysztof Kukucki (district 13, Włocławek), Stanisław Mazur (district 15, Świdnik), Marcin Karpiński (district 26, Pabianice), Piotr Woźniak (district 52, Opole), Marek Paprocki (district 55, Mielec), Stanisław Szałajko (district 57, Krosno), Anna Górska (district 63, Chojnice), Konrad Gołota (district 79, Cieszyn) and Henryk Milcarz (district 83, Kielce). The Left also holds a vacancy in district 47 (Mińsk Mazowiecki).
From Self-Government Movement Yes! For Poland, Senate candidates will include Józef Zając (district 18, Chełm), Wadim Tyszkiewicz (district 22, Nowa Sól) and Andrzej Dziuba (district 75, Tychy).
In late February, representatives from KO, Poland 2050, New Left, PSL and the Local Government Movement Yes! For Poland signed a joint statement confirming the Senate Pact, with agreed cross-constituency candidacy.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled for 15 October, with Poles voting for 460 deputies and 100 senators to four-year terms.
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