Jacek Kurski leaves PiS to enter race for Mayor of Gdansk as LPR candidate

Jacek Kurski has left the Law and Justice party (PiS) and decided to run for the post of Mayor of the city of Gdansk, as a Polish Family League (LPR) candidate. "I don't understand Lech Kaczynski anymore. On the one hand he tries to fight the agreement with the Civic Platform (PO) in Warsaw, while on the other he co-operates with it in the Pomorze region of Poland," says Kurski. The potential Mayor of Gdansk also claims to be much more popular in this city than his opponent from the PiS party, Grzegorz Strzelczyk, claiming, "In the elections to the regional council I collected most of the votes, while he had only 200." In previous years Kurski was part of the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (ROP) and later joined the Christian National Union (ZChN) before joining PiS. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) A.K.