SKL to support Jarosław Gowin's new party

The Conservative People's Party (SKL), has announced that it will disband and merge its structures with Poland Together (PRJG), a new economically liberal and socially conservative party founded by former justice minister Jarosław Gowin. Although SKL is currently not in parliament, its former leader, Artur Balazs, is a well-respected and influential politician whose backing for Gowin's new party is definitely worth noting. “I am ready to support a political initiative which will create an alternative to Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO). We need more oxygen in politics so citizens have a real choice and are not condemned to choose between parties which keep up conflict with each other in order to maintain their monopoly on the political scene,” Balazs told Rzeczpospolita. “We need a new party on the right side of the political scene which will enable a generational change,” he added. /ra