Law and Justice candidate for mayor of Rzeszow MP Andrzej Szlachta said Monday that his group in the upcoming local elections "forecasts a result of more than 13 seats" in the 25-member city council.
"We are going to the elections with a very strong team. We want to restore after twelve years a majority in the decision-making body of the city of Rzeszow. We forecast a result of more than 13 seats, which will allow us to independently influence the most important decisions of the Rzeszow local government." - Szlachta said at Monday's press conference.
He announced that PiS will present, among other things, a program to improve the city's transportation system, and also wants to "modernize education" and "revitalize citizen action; the civic budget is not to be a propaganda budget, but a real impact on investment." "We are going under the slogan +Rzeszów time for change+," Szlachta stressed.
Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchcinski, who was present at the conference, pointed out that "Szlachta is the candidate of the entire great united right and has a great chance to win the elections."
He recalled that in Subcarpathia, the Law and Justice party has fielded its candidates for mayors "in all the presidential cities" of the region, more than 50 candidates for mayors and nearly 100 candidates for mayors.
The current Law and Justice MP, Andrzej Szlachta, was the mayor of Rzeszów between 1999 and 2002. In particular districts, the lists of this party are opened by: current councillors of Rzeszów, Robert Kultys and Waldemar Szumny, the director of the community school Grażyna Szarama and one of the youngest candidates, 27-year-old Marcin Fijołek.
In Rzeszów, the following candidates are competing for the mayor's seat: incumbent mayor Tadeusz Ferenc, who is running from his own electoral committee and is supported by, among others, the PO, the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish Peasants' Party (PSL); Andrzej Szlachta, the former mayor of Rzeszów and a member of the Law and Justice party (PiS); Krzysztof Prendecki from the New Right Congress and Marta Niewczas, the leader of Twojego Ruch (Your Movement) in Podkarpacie.
In the 2010 local elections. Ferenc won in the first round - he received 53.25 percent of the vote. The next places in the mayoral election were then held by: Jerzy Cypryś (Law and Justice party) - 34.86 percent, Andrzej Dec from PO - 7.59 percent, Wieslaw Walat (KWW Rzeszowianie Razem) - 2.77 percent, Jerzy Maślanka (Our House Rzeszów Electoral Committee) - 1.53 percent. In turn, to the city council four years ago, Tadeusz Ferenc's KWW "Rzeszów Development" introduced 11 councilors, Law and Justice party - 9, and PO - 5.
Source: PAP
