"We want to take care of the authentic Poland. This true Poland we want to give back to the Polish people, so that the normal, ordinary Pole can once again be a citizen of his own state."
"Czarnek said he wanted to be the 'engineman of a well-oiled bullet train,' with Kaczynski at the helm. He also took aim at the man he wants to replace, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and his pro-European government, which has been in power since 2023."
"Reiterating his much-criticized anti-LGBTQ+ stance, he went on to insist that a 'normal' family consisted of a man and a woman, a grandfather and a grandmother. Mocking same-sex marriage, he asked, 'Why should marriage just include two men, why not three or four?'"
Przemyslaw Czarnek, a 48-year-old law professor and PiS deputy head since 2025, was unveiled as the party's lead candidate for the 2027 parliamentary election at a convention in Krakow. Previously serving as education and science minister from 2020 to 2023, Czarnek's tenure sparked significant protests over academic freedom concerns. In his inaugural speech, he positioned himself as supporting party leader Kaczynski while criticizing Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European administration. Czarnek's platform emphasizes nationalist conservative values, opposing EU climate policies and emissions trading systems while advocating for Polish coal energy security. He reiterated controversial anti-LGBTQ+ positions and promoted traditional family structures, appealing to PiS' core voter base.
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