Three parties form right-wing alliance
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
21.07.2014 16:14
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Three parties form right-wing alliance. Elżbieta Krajewska reports.
The leaders of three Polish right-wing parties signed an alliance on Saturday in the run-up to elections this year and in 2015.
From left: Zbigniew Ziobro, head of United Poland; Jarosław Kaczyński, head of Law and Justice; and Jarosław Gowin, head of Poland Together, at Saturday's "Time for Change" rally in Warsaw, 19.07.2014 Photo: PAP/Jakub Kamiński
As Elżbieta Krajewska reports, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Law and Justice, the largest right-wing party in parliament, welcomed Jaroslaw Gowin (Poland Together) and Zbigniew Ziobro (United Poland) to form an alliance before the local elections this year and ahead of the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2015.
“It is important to understand the situation in Poland, but it is also important to know how to change this situation,” Kaczysnki said as he announced his allies.
Jaroslaw Gowin later clarified in talks with journalists that the alliance would include having a shared candidate in next year's presidential elections, and that the three parties would have a shared electoral list for the forthcoming general election, which can be held no later than 2015.