- Monika Piątkowska is presently the president of the Grain and Feed Chamber. In the past, she worked with the president of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski and was associated with PSL, SDL, and most late with Poland 2050
- The Małopolska PO structures recommended a candidate in the legislature endorsement election for six people. The resolution did not include the name Piątkowska, which was recommended by the National Board of the PO
- PO activists from Małopolska are bitter that the decision was made above their heads. —If the PiS supports Sonik, we do not have a chance to keep this mandate,” emphasises the activist of the Małopolska PO
- There are besides concerns that the decision may demobilise local PO structures in supporting Rafał Trzaskowski in his presidential campaign
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— I have no thought what the power of Monika Piątkowska is about, especially since her organization past is not optimistic. We read it as a deal between Tuski and Kosiniak-Kamish, above our heads,” Onet tells 1 of the activists of the Małopolska Platform.
He does not hide his anger, but — he adds — The decision of the national board to redden besides warmed the interior form of local structures.
Decision over the heads of local structures
Activists feel downplayed due to the fact that earlier the party's office asked the PO territory board in Krakow to urge a individual who will fight in March supplementary elections to the Senate.
Six names appeared in the January 21 resolution. Among them, 4 people associated with PO: Iwona Chamielec, Tomasz Daros, Grzegorz Jul and Patrycja Tocka, and 2 non-members of the party: Edward Nowak and Prof. Andrzej Matyja. The resolution went to the gathering of the National Board of the PO on Friday. And things took an unexpected turn on him. The organization office for the candidate recommended Monika Piątkowska, who, during the years of president Jack Majchrowski (2003-12), headed the Department of strategy and Urban improvement in the City Office of Krakow. She was besides his lawyer liable for shaping the city's image.
She was politically associated with the Polish People's Party, later with the SLD, and most late with the Polish 2050 Szymon Holownia. With the second parted in a turbulent atmosphere in April 2025. She left the organization with a group of activists dissatisfied with the management's decision.
– The decision was hard for each of us, for me too, due to the fact that I built this group over 2 years. We came to the leader, due to the fact that I came for Simon Holownia, for a man who believed that he could make a difference in the country, for a man who believed that a fresh quality could be introduced and that good energy could be drawn from people – said in 2023 "Onet Morning." Monika Piątkowska.
She is presently the president of the Grain and Feed Chamber.
“What was that for?”
Bitter PO activists do not want to talk sick of Piątkowska herself, due to the fact that more than choosing this peculiar candidate upsets them the way this choice was made.
Let us remind that in the PO a resolution with a advice was adopted, we heard that the legislature pact would apply in the supplementary elections to the Senate. Just like it was in October 2023. But the Małopolska PSL had a different opinion about it. Talks about recommending a joint candidate at local level were not. Thus, the suspicion that the election of Piątkowski is simply a consequence of the findings between the head of PO Donald Tuski and the leader of PSL Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish.
— What was that for? Why should we give our own recommendations erstwhile one more time our voice has been underestimated? ’ says 1 of the PO activists. As he adds, the interior forums have already featured votes from members of the Platform, who announce that they will not engage in collecting signatures under Piątkowska's candidacy.
These disgruntled members of the PO have already been invited to cooperate by Łukasz Wantuch, a erstwhile Kraków councillor who will besides fight for the senator's mandate.
"All PO members in Krakow so ask for aid in collecting signatures and campaigning. Off the record, of course. Believe me, this will be a 100 times better solution for you,” Wantuch called on social media.
"There will be a problem with mobilization for Trzaskowski"
— specified a decision by the national board is simply a game of weakening structures, which increases the chances of the Law and Justice, I hear on the Platform.
Let us remind that the Lesser Polish Law and Justice Office, at the minute only with the mouth of Ryszard Terlecki, recommended a candidate for the legislature as a provincial councillor and erstwhile curator of education Barbara Nowak. There is no authoritative decision on this, due to the fact that this announcement caused a storm in local structures. There is inactive much talk about the fact that the PiS can support the independent candidate Bogusław Sonik.
“I uncertainty that by betting on Piątkowska we will be able to mobilize the Krakovians to go crowdly to the urns. As a associate of the Platform, I learned about her candidacy from social media. This way of communicating in the organization gives me fears, but possibly individual on top came up with a plan that he does not tell us,” tells us the Małopolska PO politician.
— First of all, in Krakow Piątkowska is poorly known. People may collect for her the signatures needed to register, but if the PiS mobilizes around its candidate or candidates we will be in the woods, adds another.
—If the PiS supports Sonik, we do not have a chance to keep this mandate,” emphasises the activist of the Małopolska PO. And he adds that losing in the March elections could weaken morale before a more crucial test – the presidential election. “If we fight now, we will have a problem mobilising people in the Rafał Trzaskowski campaign,” says PO activist.
Who's gonna fight for a senator's ticket in Kraków?
Complementary elections to the legislature in Krakow will be held on 16 March. They must be carried out due to the fact that Bogdan Klich resigned his mandate erstwhile he became chargé d’affaires of the Polish Embassy in the USA.
So far, her candidate in the legislature elections in Krakow has officially identified the organization Together. In these elections there will be an alternative, 1 can vote for a real change," said president Adrian Zandberg in Cracow. And announced that his organization in the 16 March election would represent Ewa Sładek, Krakow feminist and pro-abortion activist.
A fewer weeks ago on social media, his willingness to run besides announced erstwhile municipal councillors Luke Wantuch. In turn, Grzegorz Braun said that his Confederation of the Polish Crown will exhibit in the elections Anger Rokosz-Kuczyńskiwho in the past was, among others, a city councillor. In his conversation with Onet, he besides expressed a willingness to take off Bogusław Sonik, erstwhile MP and Euro MP of the Platform.
The deadline for submitting candidates in supplementary elections to the legislature is 5 February. On 16 March there will be a crackdown of voters in territory no. 33 covering districts: I look Miasto, V Krowodrze, VI Bronowice, VII Zwierzyniec, VIII Dębniki, IX Łagiewniki-Borek Fałęcki, X Swoszowice, XI Podgórze Duchuckie, XII Bieszanów-Prokocim and XIII Podgórze.
