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Poland’s ruling party leader plans to step down in 2025

24.06.2022 10:45
Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s ruling conservatives Law and Justice, has said he will leave his party role "in three years’ time."
Jarosław Kaczyński.
Jarosław Kaczyński.PAP/Radek Pietruszka

Kaczyński made the declaration in an interview published by the polskatimes.pl website on Friday.

The Polish conservative leader, who recently quit his government role as deputy prime minister in charge of security, said: “As regards the leadership of the party, if everything goes to plan and nothing unforeseen happens, decisions will be made in three years’ time.”

He added: “We’ll have the party conference then, where I won’t run for the leadership anymore.”

Kaczyński told polskatimes.pl that if he won a seat in the 2027 parliamentary elections, he would become “a rank-and-file MP,” Polish state news agency PAP reported.

Asked who would be his party's candidate for the Polish presidency in 2025, Kaczyński replied that “names are already being mentioned.”

“However, nobody mentioned Andrzej Duda three years before he became our presidential candidate in 2015,” Kaczyński said.

(pm/gs)

Source: PAPpolskatimes.pl