PiS believes there is no point in extending the series indefinitely. “PiS Presidential Candidate Selection”.
In particular, the results of the Citizens United primary election will be known this Saturday. As we wrote in Interia, there is a possibility that PiS will announce its candidate this weekend, and PiS politicians considered whether to do so on Saturday in parallel with the announcement of the KO verdict, but the choice was made on Sunday. won.
-Will the president then officially announce the candidates? asks a knowledgeable PiS politician who took part in the rally on Nowogrodzka Street.
– I will believe when I see and hear – he answers.
2025 presidential election. PiS candidate
And this is the answer we heard from most politicians in Law and Justice's closest decision-making circles.
We are talking about Karol Nawrocki, director of the Institute of National Memory, and Przemysław Czarnek, former head of the Ministry of National Education. In the end, the names of Navrocki and Czarnek were mainly important, although Tobias Boczynski was also taken into account in the recent study.
For many years, PiS presidents have consulted with a group of trusted politicians and cross-referenced their opinions to make decisions.
・The problem is that he spews out all sorts of pros and cons, making it difficult to understand what he's really thinking. This time too, one of the participants in the meeting on Novogrodzka Street reported that from these talks everyone agreed that Mr. Navrocki's candidacy had emerged.
Karol Nawrocki, PiS presidential candidate?
Media reported on Thursday night that PiS had chosen Karol Nawrocki as its candidate. However, PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek said: “Nothing has been decided on this issue.” “The party leadership will announce in the next few days who will be the PiS candidate.” I wrote to calm the mood. “We have an important election campaign ahead of us and our founding candidates will be appointed soon,” a party spokesperson said.
However, according to our information, Nawrocki did best in the party's internal polls, although the declassification that the PiS president had hoped for did not happen. Therefore, making a selection decision can be very time consuming.
From the perspective of the research commissioned by PiS and the party, Nawrocki has the best advantage. The basic thing is that PiS has far fewer negative voters than its competitors. The simple reason is that he is so little known that it is difficult to clearly link him to the party and all its baggage, especially since his eight-year reign.
– Przemek's burden is being Minister of Education, all his harsh words, Willa Plath, and everything the government he was in did that could be used against him. Secondly, there were also attempts to link Bochenski with his political patron Lau (former editor of the Foreign Ministry) and with the visa scandal, a topic that is very uncomfortable for us. – says one of our officials. Interlocutor.
– On the one hand, Mr. Nawrocki clearly has a higher electoral chance from the start, since he is an outsider of PiS, but on the other hand, unfortunately, party activists are not 100% sure of him. Not. My interlocutor points out that this is where the anger of the CEO, who has been struggling with this decision for six months, comes from. – As long as I've known the president, he's never been reluctant to make a decision for so long – he added.
Is candidate independence a priority?
Today, the independence of candidates in elections is attracting attention as an advantage for candidates.
– See what Szymon Hołownia and Rafał Trzaskowski are up to. Both candidates call themselves independent candidates and emphasize that fact at every opportunity. reason? Their research shows the same thing as ours. Poles expect people to be independent from political parties. Nawrocki fits perfectly here, he never belonged to PiS and his career followed a completely different path, but at the same time conservative and compatible with our world of values. – one of the MPs explained to us.
Therefore, the idea of Karol Nawrocki not being announced by PiS as a candidate, but his own candidacy, only supported by PiS, is being seriously considered. The Wpolityce.pl website even reported that Nawrocki may declare himself a “citizen candidate.”
Another idea to calm the mood within the party is to have Przemysław Czarnek become Karol Nawrocki's chief of staff, if he is ultimately elected. – They were a “dream team”, but this idea also has weaknesses, so we don't know if it will ultimately fail, – one of our sources tells us.
– I will not be in charge of Karol Nawrocki's election team, I will travel all over Poland and encourage people to vote for PiS candidates – Przemysław Czarnek declared yesterday on Polsat News, who will He said he did not know whether he would decide to become a candidate. There were candidates.
Is Nawrocki less recognizable?
Nawrocki's low profile is seen by the PiS leadership as a strength rather than a weakness, as it allows him to be more flexible in his election strategy. Moreover, the “selection of presidential candidates” that included Nawrocki's name, as PiS put it, increased his popularity, especially among the party's voters. Initially, he had higher support than his contemporary, Andrzej Duda, who was announced as a presidential candidate for the first time.
– Navrocki is rated highly in terms of age, since respondents emphasized that he is young, which is noticeable when compared to Trzaskowski and Sikorsky. Respondents also emphasized that he is well-educated and trustworthy in his position. They consider him dynamic and hard-working, which will also be good to use in the campaign, one of his supporters says.
However, PiS politicians who are skeptical of Nawrocki say that Nawrocki has not been thoroughly “vetted” by the media and that various past stories about him could come out during the campaign. , points out that it could affect the fate of the election campaign. How will his supporters react to these concerns?
– Everything that may be published about him, due to his involvement in the regime for eight years, will be less harmful to the campaign than what will be distributed about Czarnek or Bochensky. Unfortunately, it is true that the PiS government is burdened with too much demonization. You can regret it, but you can't deny reality, said one interlocutor close to Nawrocki's candidacy.
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