- — The president has no time to be bored, the president is not from palaces, the president is from work – Holovnia spoke during a gathering in Białystok.
- His supporters justice the chances of winning carefully, though they believe he inactive has a chance. The rescue sees “more Simon” and more meetings in action.
- “The second circular will be due to the fact that there is no candidate to appear immediately with over half the voters’ support. I always choose the center due to the fact that all utmost and extremist views are very dangerous, as the past teacher predicts.
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‘portable confessional’
Marshal of the Sejm and presidential candidate Simon Holovnia has been on a run tour of Poland for 2 weeks. He had 100 meetings in 60 cities. He was in Suwałki on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon, he arrived at a gathering with the inhabitants of Bielsk Podlaski, where he faced not only praise and patting on the back.
— I drive around the region and as a portable confessional, and as the scapegoat of that government, to perceive to all the regrets that people gotta regulation — sometimes rightly, which does not solve their problems — so began the speech in the conference area of the Kawelin restaurant in the centre of Białystok, and at the same time repeated the words, from a morning press conference and another meetings in the Podlaskie Voivodeship.
Martyna Bielska / Onetgathering with Simon Holovnia in Białystok
He addressed the ruling politicians that "Podlas are not the chaotic West, the field, or the stage, where you can come and shoot selfies, as you catch refugees with Polish soldiers", due to the fact that by specified pictures people do not want to come on vacation to this place and support local businesses.
At an evening gathering in Białystok with Simon Holovnia there were parliamentarians, members of the government, leading politicians and local government coalitions of the 3rd Way from PSL and Poland 2050 from the region. The candidate was supported by Vice Marshal of the legislature and Deputy Minister of Agriculture — both from Podlasie. Local activists and longtime sympathizers of the Simon Holowna group sat in the first rows. Among the “ordinary” participants of the gathering were teenagers, under 18, but besides with an active right to vote in the general election. The age proportions active were reversed compared to the participants of the Friday gathering in the Białystok marketplace with the candidate of the Confederation. Entrepreneurs came to care about their businesses and pensioners reporting their problems. The gathering had a good pace, lasted an hr and a half. Here you could ask questions, although you could sense that not all were spontaneous.
Martyna Bielska / Onetgathering with Simon Holovnia in Białystok
“He was to be a friar, and now he wants to be president”
The 2 seniors who sat in the mediate of the hall came to see what pre-election meetings looked like. “Simon Holovnia is simply a candidate who meets our expectations, all Poles,” Teresa says. “Some say he was expected to be a friar, and now he wants to be president. Everyone has an opinion, he points out.
— For now, I have 2 candidates: the president of Warsaw and the talker of the Sejm. I like the hoard, I like his speeches and he would do a lot for Poland and Białystok – Nina thought that the candidate from Białystok would have more support. In fresh polls, it usually takes 4th place.
The ladies mention the characteristics of the President, who already has the Holovnia: he listens to people, he can discuss with people, he does not run distant from problems, he is calm and diplomatic.
There are entrepreneurs who run customs agencies at closed Polish-Belarusian border crossing points. Their activities have been frozen for respective years. “Today, the marshal at the conference announced the aid of PLN 30 million for credits to customs agencies, which are to be released in 30%. We have come to say that this aid will not save us, but will bring us down more,” explains Aneta.
Martyna Bielska / Onetgathering with Simon Holovnia in Białystok
“I eat with spoons”
Anna is simply a past teacher at a advanced school in Białystok and has been voting for the Hołównia from the beginning. He appreciates him for “letting go of his very comfortable life and trying to change the planet for the better.” “I see in him an chance for a better future and I eat with spoons everything he says, although he flew besides hard about banks,” the teacher laughs.
She came with her husband Thomas to convince him to vote for her idol. The husband is not convinced yet, he gives himself until May 18. “ The second circular will be due to the fact that there is no candidate to appear immediately with over half of the voter’s support,” says Anna. “The others are strong, Mentzen entered the game hard, and as the marshal said, a very suspicious 1 is campaigning. I always choose the center due to the fact that all utmost and extremist views are very dangerous — he points out.
Grzegorz has been coming to meetings with the Holovnia for 5 years. He agrees with him in 95 percent, and of all politicians he knows, he is closest to a candidate from Białystok. I haven't failed yet. The chances are medium, due to the fact that the Polish promiser of golden mountains came, and so it came to Simon, as Gregory predicted.
Martyna Bielska / Onetgathering with Simon Holovnia in Białystok
— What is crucial to us is that he does not promise pears on the willow, he simply says that not everything can be done, he talks to everyone, he does not run distant from different questions, he admits a matrimony that has been declared by respective years already supporting the Holnia. His chances are judged carefully, and the rescue sees in action "more Simon" and more meetings.
Young people want to see the Hollow.
While the older voters are determined or almost declared and have had circumstantial political views for years, we besides ask young people about their election preferences and motivations to come to meet with the presidential candidate.
— I'm here due to the fact that I gave myself a challenge to be at each candidate's meetings. Unfortunately, we managed to get to a gathering with Adrian Zandberg – Patrick is curious in politics, feels emotions at specified meetings, and here he wants to get to know the Holownia program. In May, however, he will not be able to vote due to the fact that he is only 16 years old.
Martyna Bielska / OnetSelfie with a presidential candidate
Three colleagues are waiting for a photograph with the head of Poland 2050 in a rather long queue. They're students from Białystok.
— I wanted to see the candidate I like. See what he looks like and get to know the views of Marshal Holowna. We agree on many things — unfortunately, Adam will be of age only after the election.
The same intent of the visit was for Damian. Although he successively learns the views of all the candidates, there is no certainty that he will vote for Holownia. He's inactive wondering. “I appreciate the marshal for how he operates in the Sejm, how he conducts his deliberations, but he is not helped by the scandals in the coalition government, the most connected with the companies of the Treasury, which were to be cleared, and only exchanged people on the stools,” says the teenager.
Martyna Bielska / Onetgathering with Simon Holovnia in Białystok
The second Damian after the gathering does not feel full convinced by candidate 3rd Way. “It is inactive in orbit of my political views, but it is inactive not the candidate. I'm declared Adrian Zandberg. Mr. Holovnia is the second option, although he inactive has time — the boy adds that everything is ahead of us.
The youngest: This place is so boring
Basia learns at a post-secondary school. Hubert studies pedagogy. They came to the gathering out of curiosity, separately, but with their friends and met here.
— I am curious to see how candidates present themselves in the campaign, how they will speak, whether they will compare themselves to their counter-candidates and insult each another — Basia checks whether the aspiring president calls people, or against people to argue against them. “I was amazed here due to the fact that there is no screaming, no aggression, no guilt shifting, no mistake pointing. It was substantive, which I very much anticipate from politicians — politics has been curious in since she was 15. She hasn't decided who she's voting for yet.
Martyna Bielska / OnetBasia and Hubert came to see and perceive to Simon Holownia
Hubert came to the gathering with a fear that "there would be a riot", after what happened in Bielsk Podlaski, where Poland's 2050 candidate repelled attacks of dissatisfied voters and supporters of another political parties. “Simon Holovnia is definitely my only candidate. What truly appeals to me is that he is an open man and wants to work with his heart for mankind — that is how the boy motivates his choice.
A teenager younger than them who sat in the back of the area was no longer so enthusiastic: “It’s so boring here. I don't like people talking and talking like that all the time. It's so annoying. A girl came with her parents. At the end of the meeting, she came to selfie with a candidate.
Martyna Bielska / Onetgathering with Simon Holovnia in Białystok
During this meeting, Holownia spoke of his countercandidates to the palace. Sławomir Mentzen of the Confederacy called "a provocateur with zero experience". He estimated that Charles Nawrocki, supported by the Law and Justice, would be blocking and vetoing everything as president. He felt that if the election was won by Rafał Trzaskowski KO candidate, then both the president and the Prime Minister, as well as the talker of the Sejm, would be with the PO, which resulted in the next parliamentary election winning the Law and Justice with the Confederate, who would "ord and lead us to the East".
