Trzaskowski pledged to end Poland’s “embarrassment on the international stage and medieval anti-abortion law”.
Trzaskowski pledged to end Poland’s “embarrassment on the international stage and medieval anti-abortion law”.
Warsaw mayor Trzaskowski is regarded as representing the more socially liberal wing of the centrist Civic Platform (PO).
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Tusk admitted that his group had “failed in the east and the countryside”, where PiS remains dominant.
The idea of standing jointly had been floated, but announcements by each group on Tuesday appear to have ended that possibility.
Among the plans are doubling the tax-free income threshold, overturning the near-total ban on abortion and raising salaries for public-sector employees.
Roman Giertych, who founded and led the nationalist All-Polish Youth and was once an ally of Jarosław Kaczyński, will now stand for the opposition.
Adam Bodnar, who served as Poland’s human rights commissioner from 2015-21, will also stand for the Civic Coalition (KO).
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A new economic plan reinvigorates the ruling coalition and puts the divided opposition on the back foot.
Civic Platform has seen one senior figure quit this week and two others appeal against their expulsion.
Civic Platform will never win elections again unless it implements fundamental reform, say the lawmakers.
PO’s proposals including disclosure of assets by public officials and separating the roles of justice minister and prosecutor general.