Trzaskowski begins election campaign for Poland's presidency
At the start of his presidential election campaign, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski promised a solidary and economically strong Poland. "All Poland ahead!" was the slogan he repeatedly shouted into the hall during his speech at a party congress of the liberal-conservative Civic Coalition (KO) in Gliwice. The KO, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, is the strongest force in the government that emerged from the October 2023 elections.
07.12.2024, 18:49
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Trzaskowski accused the national conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), which will remain in power until the end of 2023, of having created "a caste of millionaires" with citizens' money. He, on the other hand, wants to ensure that the economically weaker do not fall by the wayside. "I believe in a Poland in which the stronger will always help the weaker," he said. The main issues he wants to focus on in the election campaign are the economy, security and equal opportunities.
Trzaskowski was already a candidate in 2020
The 52-year-old Trzaskowski had already run for the office of Polish head of state in 2020, but was defeated by incumbent President Andrzej Duda. In his speech to the KO delegates, he recalled: "If we had won four years ago, there would have been no embarrassment on the international stage, no enormous inflation and no medieval abortion law," the public television station TVP Info quoted him as saying in an online report.
In November, Trzaskowski won an internal primary election against Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski by 75 percent to 25 percent. Shortly afterwards, the largest opposition party PiS nominated the non-party historian Karol Nawrocki as an opposing candidate. The presidential election will be held in May 2025, but the exact date has not yet been set.
