“Slawomir, Slawomir!” »»chant several hundred people gathered in front of the town hall of Kalisz, a city of 90,000 inhabitants in the west of Poland, Friday, March 7. The champion of this little crowd dominated by men under the age of 40: Slawomir Mentzen, co -president of the far -right alliance Konfederacja (Confederation) and candidate for the presidential election of May 18 and 1er June. On the small platform mounted for the occasion, elected officials take turns while the candidate arrives from another meeting, located 30 kilometers away. Kalisz is his fourth and last electoral meeting of the day.
“I like it a lot more than our current president [Andrzej Duda]. What he says about the Ukrainians who abuse the generosity of Poland, it speaks to me ”explains Elwira Kasprzacka, security agent, also seduced by tax cuts promised by Konfederacja. The candidacy of Slawomir Mentzen, a 38 -year -old entrepreneur who has sits, since 2023, to the diet, the lower room of the Polish parliament – and is omnipresent on social networks – convinced this abstentionist to vote for the first time in his life. “Like many Polish, I thought it would not change anything”confides the forties, who sees only a shadow on the board: “Konfederacja leaders think women have to stay at home. »»
If Konfederacja takes a libertarian inspiration – liberalization of cryptocurrencies, defense of freedom of expression “Like in the United States” –his liberalism stops at social subjects: the party is thus opposed to the right to abortion. But these themes occupy a marginal place in the countryside, dominated by the question of border protection. Whether it is to defend them against a potential Russian attack or against the arrival of migrants.
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