Morawiecki: Częstochowa requires a new opening
The candidate of Rozwoju Plus in the early elections will be Monika Pohorecka-Całko, vice-chairman of the City Council dismissed in the same referendum on October 25, in which President Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk of the New Left lost his position.
Pohorecka-Całko belonged to Law and Justice, she left the party at the beginning of November this year. In the last local elections, in 2024, she was the PiS candidate for the president of Częstochowa, she entered the second round, in which she lost to Matyjaszczyk.
Częstochowa requires a new opening - Mateusz Morawiecki, the leader of Rozwoju Plus, emphasized on Tuesday during the candidate's presentation.
MP Łukasz Schreiber wrote on the X website: "This will be the first test of our real support."
Łukasz Wabnic is an independent candidate
Also on Tuesday, Łukasz Wabnic, a councilor from 2010 to 2018, who ran from the SLD list, announced his intention to run. In 2018, he joined the KO councilors' club. He announced that he would be an independent candidate.
Wabnic, a political scientist by education, was the Polish and European kickboxing champion.
"Looking at the situation"
Immediately after the referendum, a car with a billboard of Tomasz Stala, the local leader of New Hope, drove around the streets of Częstochowa. Currently, he states that he is "looking into the situation." In Częstochowa, our coalition partner, the National Movement, has the right to field a candidate - he explained in an interview with the local portal "Na Wylot".
In 2024, Stala ran for mayor of the city from the Alternative for Częstochowa list! He runs the 3DOM publishing house. In May this year In a non-final judgment, the court found that it promoted anti-Semitism. Stala appealed.
Marek Drygas, a member of the referendum committee, announced his candidacy in an interview with TVN24. He later told a PAP correspondent that he had only announced his readiness.
In 2009, Drygas was one of the initiators of the referendum in which right-wing president Tadeusz Wrona was recalled and promoted Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk, who then became president, as his successor. Now he says he is disappointed with it.
According to PAP information, the referendum committee will not nominate Drygas. The most likely person is the group's leader, Marcin Nocoń. He did not answer when asked whether he would run. In the last elections, Nocoń ran for the City Council from the Poland 2050 list; he did not obtain a mandate.
Referendum campaign, among others with billboards with his own face, he was actively led by Polish 2050 MP Piotr Strach from Częstochowa, elected from the Gliwice constituency. So far, he has not declared whether he will run in the presidential elections.
The Left and PiS are looking for candidates
The Left and PiS are looking for candidates. The Left, which has governed Częstochowa since 2010 (in this term in coalition with KO), is discussing whether it should be a person not associated with the current authorities.
Activists from the city and the area are arguing in PiS. The first trend is represented by councilor Paweł Ruksza, the second - by MP Lidia Burzyńska, who recently moved to Częstochowa, which she emphasizes.
Łukasz Pabiś, commissioner of Częstochowa
Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed the current vice-president, Łukasz Pabiś, as the commissioner of Częstochowa. Before this nomination, Izabela Leszczyna, the leader of KO Częstochowa and one of the party's vice-chairmen, told PAP that the commissioner should be a person who will later run for president. Pabiś, when asked about it last Thursday, right after his appointment, replied that if he received an offer, he would "take up the gauntlet".
KO emphasizes that it was a minority coalition partner - it had one of the four vice-presidents. The Commissioner announced, among other things, that people associated with politics would leave municipal companies. Former leftist MEP Marek Balt and former first deputy president Jarosław Marszałek have already been removed from supervisory boards. Pabiś announces his next moves.
Early elections should be held within 90 days of the announcement of the referendum result. The date is set by the Prime Minister, which has not happened yet.
The referendum took place on October 25. The direct reason for the initiative was the bringing of corruption charges against President Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk, who since February 25 this year. He was prohibited by the prosecutor from holding office and entering the office. He claims that he was the victim of slander and agreed to give his name.
