Polish Politics and Elections

[Mazda]

Are Razem in contention for any seats anywhere?

[Mazda]

Are Razem in contention for any seats anywhere?

As for now this is still not yet decided everywhere. As for the sejmiks level they have ambitions to create their own electoral committees in all voivodships so they have no chances to get an seats. As for the lower level like counties or cities which are de iure counties they will participate in coalitions with some NGOs or other parties. In Wrocław they already decided that they will have coalition with Greens, as far as I remember also they will have some coalition in Warsaw. But probably they will start only in the biggest cities and they do not have chances to win anything anywhere to be honest.

That's a pity, it would be nice to get a few people trained up and entrenched for the next Sejm election.

And/or to see a few young idealists watch their dreams die before their eyes in the face of Polish local government.

[Mazda]

Are Razem in contention for any seats anywhere?

As for now this is still not yet decided everywhere. As for the sejmiks level they have ambitions to create their own electoral committees in all voivodships so they have no chances to get an seats. As for the lower level like counties or cities which are de iure counties they will participate in coalitions with some NGOs or other parties. In Wrocław they already decided that they will have coalition with Greens, as far as I remember also they will have some coalition in Warsaw. But probably they will start only in the biggest cities and they do not have chances to win anything anywhere to be honest.

That's a pity, it would be nice to get a few people trained up and entrenched for the next Sejm election.

And/or to see a few young idealists watch their dreams die before their eyes in the face of Polish local government.

Another issue is that the party leadership has chosen to focus on the elections to the sejmiks (fearing that if Razem skipped the sejmiks elections they'd be seen as winding down and a wasted vote) which a lot of party members aren't happy with because 1) they think it's a waste of time, 2) in some places there aren't even enough potential paper candidates, and 3) a lot of them are/were urban activists who don't care about the sejmiks and were hoping to devote their energies to city councils where it'd be less impossible to get elected. About half of Razem Kielce (Razem Kielce are surprisingly active but also infamous in Razem for constantly getting in petty fights over policy and resources and are basically despised by the rest of the party) seems to have left the party in a huff over this.

That sounds like a fun situation. Almost makes it seem even more as if they're a wasted vote and/or winding down.

[Mazda]

Also I'd like to remind everybody that Trzaskowski is an MP for Kraków (although he's a Warsaw native who was parachuted onto the Kraków list) and Patryk Jaki is an MP for Opole who was a local councillor in Opole before being elected to the Sejm.

For the two foreigners reading this thread - no, Polish political parties do not care about parachutes at all.

Hmm, that's disappointing to hear, I think Lech Kaczynski would have found one quite useful.

Presumably this guy from the Movement for Social Justice is... not very socially just?