Sławomir Mentzen for President?

The Konfederacja leader will run in next year’s presidential elections. But representing Konfederacja or the entire Polish right?

Konfederacja leader Sławomir Mentzen. Photo: Robert Bartosewicz / PR24

The Polish far-right party Konfederacja has announced that its candidate in the 2024 presidential elections will be Sławomir Mentzen. 

Another Konfederacja leader, currently deputy speaker of the Sejm, Krzysztof Bosak suggested that all right-wing parties could conduct primaries to select one candidate for the right. However, Law and Justice MP Łukasz Schreiber criticised the idea. 

Mentzen, like the founder of the „libertarian right” in Poland, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, has focussed on a Thatcherite mixture of low taxes and nationalist foreign policy. However, also like Korwin-Mikke he has often mixed this „minimal state” approach with far-right prejudices, most notoriously in his „Mentzen 5”. These are 5 key groups and acts which he would like to see the back of – „Jews, homosexuals, abortion, taxes and the European Union”:

Sources: PAP, X

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