Sławomir Mentzen's party got into formal and legal trouble. The reason for this state of affairs are the financial reports for 2024, which Nowa Nadzieja was supposed to submit by the end of March.
She did so, but, according to the National Electoral Commission (PKW), the documents were delivered in a manner inconsistent with the requirements.and legal. As a result of this error The National Electoral Commission submitted an application to the Warsaw District Court to remove Nowa Nadzieja from the register of political parties. The decision is to be made on November 21.
Sławomir Mentzen in the parliamentary benches
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Meanwhile, a new group was born on the political scene. According to “Rzeczpospolita”, on October 30, a court in Warsaw entered Nowa Polska on the list of political parties. Wadim Tyszkiewicz serves as its vice-president, while Zygmunt Frankiewicz, a coalition senator and former president of Gliwice, was appointed president. The group's authorities also included other experienced local government officials, including senator Andrzej Dziuba, president of Opole Arkadiusz Wiśniewski, mayor of Cieszyn Gabriela Staszkiewicz and president of Starachowice Marek Materek.
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The three pillars of the party
The newspaper reminds that Tyszkiewicz's plans to establish a party appeared after the second round of the presidential elections. Then the senator, embittered by the election results and the defeat of Rafał Trzaskowski, announced his withdrawal from politics. He expressed his disappointment on social media and said that his vision of a modern, European and people-friendly Poland had lost to lies and hatred. In an interview with “Rzeczpospolita” he admitted that after Trzaskowski's defeat he felt a threat to the values that had been built in Poland over the years, but ultimately he decided to act and not give up the country without a fight.
At the end of October, the first convention of New Poland was held in Poznań, during which Wadim Tyszkiewicz, senator of the government coalition from the Independent and Self-Government group, presented the main pillars of the party. These are the economy, local government and security.
— We would like the country to continue to develop, because we truly live in a golden age. Poland is developing, but not all Poles feel it. To really take a step forward, we need a new opening, also in local government. After 36 years of functioning of local government, it is time for a new opening, for a new reform, for New Poland – he said then.
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“We are breaking these rules”
When asked whether the party's program included any points that would distinguish the emerging party from the others, he replied that “there are a lot of these program assumptions.” – I wanted to emphasize a basic point: our program is constantly being created, our people, who are specialists in various fields, are constantly working – he replied.
Tyszkiewicz also said that the party “wants to be prepared” for the next parliamentary elections.
— Some say that this is a bad time (to create a party – ed.), because if someone is very calculating and would like to achieve temporary political success, they should usually build a party six, seven, eight months before the elections. We break these rules. We are building the party theoretically two years before the elections because we want to first create a strong program and reach Poles with our proposal, our alternative, he pointed out.
“We won't be anyone's annex”
Tyszkiewicz also assures that the new party will not become an “annex” of KO. – We do not want and will never be anyone's annex, we are building our own program – he said.
He added that the program being built by the new grouping is a program built by “people who have achieved a lot in their lives; they have built Polish cities, the Polish economy. I must admit that we really want our experience to be used so that young people can cooperate with us and create this new, better Poland – because we don't do it for ourselves. We do it for them, we do it for the whole of Poland,” he said.
