“I am going back to business, I will not take part in the autumn parliamentary elections, I will work and earn a living,” Ryszard Petru, the leader of the Teraz! Party announced in a conversation with “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”. In a Sunday statement, he wrote, among other things, that he did not want to “bid on populism.”
Petru posted a Twitter statement on Sunday explaining the reasons for withdrawing from politics. The ex-politician stressed that “the government that has been ruling Poland for four years has weakened or even destroyed democratic institutions such as the independent judiciary, the apolitical Constitutional Tribunal or independent public television.”
(PAP)