The amazing words of Komorowski. The presidential candidates bought signatures?

“I can bet that the absolute majority of people who are moving and do not have political background simply bought these votes from specialized companies”, said Bronisław Komorowski, referring to the evidence number of people declaring to collect 100,000 signatures to be able to compete in the elections of the head of state. Leszek Miller, on the another hand, estimated that the president should be elected by the National Assembly.

Friday's past. the deadline for the submission of candidates, Who want to compete in this year's presidential election. According to PKW data 17 candidates submitted, the most in III Republic of. According to Bronisław Komorowski This list is besides long, as he said in the "Presidents and Prime Ministers" programme.

– I have an opinion on this. I think the threshold which was introduced into the Act is no longer in operationso that there is no immense amount of "political plankton" in the presidential election campaign. It was the 100,000 signatures collected. – reminded on Polsat News.

As the president added in 2010-2015, “I can presume absolute Most people who run and have no political background just bought those 'voices' from specialised companies.’

Leszek Miller: The president of Poland should choose the National Assembly

According to the erstwhile Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak "we have made an astonishing turn of history." “We wanted the elections to be pluralistic, so we could choose, so now we have more calls. The voters can handle it., there will be no problem – assessed in conversation with Catherine Zdanovich.

Another thought for selection of the head of state has Leszek Miller. – It is time for us to return to good interwar patterns and introduce principle of election of the president by the National Assembly, not in the general vote," said the Prime Minister from 2001 to 2004.

As Pawlak added, in France the presidential candidate is offered ‘public trust persons’. "I mean, these are the heads of local government, high-ranking representatives of civilian society," he said.

Presidential election 2025. 17 candidates were submitted to PKW

In the list of submitted candidates – published by PKW – there are 17 names by order of the applications:

• Sławomir Mentzen,
• Grzegorz Braun,
• Rafał Trzaskowski,
• Artur Bartoszewicz,
• Karol Nawrocki,
• Adrian Zandberg,
• Simon Holovnia,
• Marek Woch,
• Maciek Maciek,
• Joanna Senyszyn,
• Magdalena Biejat,
• Marek Jakubiak,
• David Jackievich,
• Wiesław Lewicki,
• Romuald Starosielec,
• Paweł Tanajno,
• Krzysztof Stanowski.

Until then, the PKW has yet to verify that the signatures in the required number have been filed correctly. Bye. 11 candidates were approved. The presidential election will take place on 18 May. Any second circular will be held on 1 June.

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