Nowoczesna with new leader

Opposition party Nowoczesna elected Katarzyna Lubnauer as its new leader. She defeated incumbent Ryszard Petru by 9 votes. After her win, she said, that she won’t marginalize Petru, who is the party’s founder, and he will play an important role in Nowoczensa’s future. She added, however, that Nowoczesna needs t review some of its decisions, including the one to support another opposition party Civic Platform’ (PO) candidate for the Warsaw Presidency. Last week, Petru, along PO’s leader Grzegorz Schetyna announced that they will both support PO’s Rafał Trzaskowski for the prestigious seat. Lubnauer also added that the party needs to “regain credibility and become an icon of the middle class.” Before being elected new leader, Lubnauer headed the party’s parliamentary caucus. Nowoczesna was founded in 2015 by Petru, a few months before the parliamentary elections in which it won 7.6 percent of the vote.