During the Congress of Polish Local Government, Kosiniak-Kamysz could not omit the topic of a key issue for PSL, i.e. the abolition of the two-term limit for commune heads, mayors and city presidents.
A project on this matter, prepared by PSL, was defeated in a vote in the Sejm in October. 213 MPs voted for the adoption of the amendment to the Electoral Code in this matter, 215 against and 9 abstained. The majority of the ruling coalition voted in favor - excluding some MPs from the Left, some from Poland 2050 and several people from KO, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who, together with government spokesman Adam Szłapka and Minister of Finance Andrzej Domański, was on a visit to India at the time.
"I believe there will be no shortage of votes this time"
Kosiniak-Kamysz said that PSL takes its obligations seriously, "even when they throw obstacles in our way" and does not intend to let this matter go. Immediately on the night after the (October) vote, we took all possible actions as a coalition party to return to this project. Fortunately, there is a Senate that has introduced a project similar to ours - he emphasized.
The PSL leader said that when it comes to the new draft law on this matter, "there is a good response from the coalition." Also from Prime Minister Tusk, who immediately, a day after the fateful (October) vote, announced a return to this matter. This is a very good decision and a very good signal. I believe that this time there will be no shortage of votes - especially from the coalition, because who should I expect from first, if not from those with whom we cooperate - said the PSL leader; he expressed hope that the right wing would also support the project.
We will not give up on this, we will bring this matter to an end, he declared.
Trzaskowski also wants the limit to be abolished, because experience counts
The following people spoke at the congress led by the Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, Piotr Zgorzelski (PSL), among others: Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski (KO), who noted that, especially in situations of crisis and threat, "experience counts." He mentioned the argument against two-term terms for local governments: that the state could act in a "more effective" way, and the decision regarding the election of local government officials "should remain in the hands of citizens."
Senator Zygmunt Frankiewicz, who was the president of Gliwice from 1993 to 2019 (Nowa Polska Centrum club), one of the authors of the Senate bill abolishing two-term terms in local governments, stated that the project "proved to be useful after a year." The project initiated in June 2025 was passed by the Senate in November 2025. If this bill does not pass, you will all be in trouble - he warned the gathered local government officials and encouraged them to be politically active also in the context of next year's national elections.
KPS participants want to "restore full freedom of choice to citizens"
At the end of the congress, the "Declaration on the abolition of limits on the number of terms of office, agreed by all local government positions" was read.
The declaration expressed, among others: "the belief that freedom is the essence of self-government, and the right of residents to choose their representatives is one of the foundations of the democratic Republic of Poland." The signatories of the declaration called for the abolition of the limitation on the number of terms of office of local government officials as an "unconstitutional solution, violating the freedom of choice and subjectivity of local communities" and for "restoring full freedom to citizens in choosing the executive authorities of municipalities."
What changes does PSL want?
The first draft amendment to the Electoral Code was submitted to the Sejm in July 2025 on the initiative of PSL. It provided for the abolition of the rule according to which a commune, mayor or president of a city can only serve two terms.
