Who's gonna fight for the president's chair? Key elections are coming.

"Coalition 15 October" will not exhibit a joint candidate in the presidential election. origin – The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland/Gov.pl licence – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland. Author – Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.

One or more candidates from the “Coalition” on 15 October? Rafał Trzaskowski or Radosław Sikorski? Who will the Law and Justice give? Finally, who will replace Andrzej Duda as president of Poland next year? These are just any of the questions that Poles have been asking themselves more and more recently. And although the election date has not yet been announced, the debate on possible candidates is getting hotter.

Over a year ago, we elected MPs and Senators in the parliamentary elections. In April this year, we elected our representatives to local governments and in June to the European Parliament. At present, another event of this kind is approaching. These are presidential elections, whose first circular will most likely take place in mid-May 2025. The run should so start with the start of the fresh year, as it starts on the day of the election according to the Electoral Code. The most crucial parties of the Polish political scene intensify their search for the “perfect candidate”.

No opposition candidate

In the ruling coalition, so far there are 2 things. First of all, the fact that she does not decide to fight together for the triumph in the first circular and will not exposure 1 candidate. This was peculiarly the case for PSL president Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish, who advocated that "Koalicja 15 October" set up a candidate who should be "not right-wing, not left-wing, but Community". However, his enthusiasm was rapidly cooled by both Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who supports a common strategy for elections, but not a Community candidate, as well as by Left Club president Anna Maria Żukowska, who explicitly admitted that the Left would exhibit its own candidate for president. Secondly, it is certain that the candidate for president of the Republic of Poland will be Szymon Hołownia, who announced on 13 November that he would run in the election "as an independent candidate".

Battles of 2 names

The Left and civilian Coalition are 2 coalitions that can be said to be rather close to deciding who will represent them in the next year's presidential election. Despite various rumors and leaks circulating in the media the dispute over presidential nomination in the Left will most likely settle between Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk and Magdalena Biejat.

For a long time it was the president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski who appeared to be an apparent candidate for the presidency, but we have besides late known about the candidacy of Radosław Sikorski, Minister of abroad Affairs, who had already fought for the PO presidential nomination in 2010. The PO National Board decided that next year's candidate would be selected in the primaries and it would be the joint candidate of the full Civic Coalition. The polls show that Trzaskowski may have a better chance, especially if the clash between 1 of the KO candidates and the PiSu candidate in the second circular is being investigated. The final decision will be announced on 23 November as announced by Donald Tusk.

It all points to the fact that the Left will be the only group to put a candidate alternatively of a candidate in the upcoming election. Co-chair of the fresh Left Robert Biedron in the "One for One" programme in TVN24 announced that possible candidates were Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, and Magdalena Biejat, Deputy Marshal of the Senate. A decision on which 1 of them will take part in the election will be made either in the primaries that are inactive being considered or by the organization board, which will most likely be announced in early January.

Exchange of PiS names

It seems that the organization which has the top difficulty in identifying the candidate is now the Law and Justice. After president Duda's double success, the PiS seeks individual to replace him. People who are most frequently said to be able to fight for this position: president of the IPN Karol Nawrocki, MEP Tobias Bocheński, erstwhile national defence minister Mariusz Błaszczak, erstwhile minister at the office of the president of the Republic of Poland Marcin Przycz and erstwhile Minister of Education and discipline Przemysław Czarnek. All gentlemen seem to fit into the perfect criteria of president Kaczyński: “a man, middle-aged, educated, with his family, Catholic and long-standing relation with the right”. With specified excruciating demands that a possible president has to meet, it's hard to tell who will yet become a PiS candidate. It is so uncertain that even the first date of announcing the candidacy in the symbolic day for Poles on 11 November was moved.

The first organization to announce its presidential candidate was the Confederate. fresh Hope president Sławomir Mentzen announced his start in the election at the end of August and the plan is inactive up to date. The only candidate for Mentzen could be Krzysztof Bosak, who withdrew from the running. The Confederate candidate sees himself as president more active than predecessors, and his priorities are to be safety and the economy.

The election date has inactive not been announced. Marshal Holovnia has any time for this, but Poles are already starting to live with presidential elections. The discussion of which candidates will be presented by individual parties is inactive ongoing and increasing. It is accompanied by flowing surveys of social opinion and polls on the basis of which journalists effort to foretell possible scenarios. At this point, however, it is inactive hard to tell what the final decisions will be and what names we will find on the ballot cards in spring.

Marianna CZMOCHOWSKA