Self-Defense and PO candidates for Euro elections

They include some surprising names among them, such as Tomasz Sudoł, deputy president of Air Polonia, Bogdan Golik, deputy president of the Polish Chamber of Commerce (KIG), Andrzej Lewiński, president of the management board of Polish Trade Chamber (PIH). Self-Defense head office also informed that Waldemar Nowakowski, president of PIH, Ryszard Czarnecki, a Self-Defense expert and former ZChN politician, Bolesław Borysiuk, a sociologist and Marek Czarnecki, the party's lawyer would also be running. It has not yet been decided what will be the order of candidates in the Małopolska and Wielkopolska regions. The party will present its lists of candidates to the European Parliament on Tuesday, just ahead of the midnight deadline for registering candidates. During the weekend the Civic Platform (PO) held their convention, which inaugurated PO's election campaign to the European Parliament. Among their candidates are Jerzy Buzek, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski and Paweł Piskorski. Head of Germany's CDU Angela Merkel visited the convention and announced that any current or future German government would not support any claims for the Western land of Poland.(Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) M.M.